Peirce and Biosemiotics : A Guess at the Riddle of Life - Romanini, Vinicius; Fernández, Eliseo; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014)
Introduction; V. Romanini, E. Fernández -- 1. The Intelligible Universe; N. Houser -- 2. The Continuity of Life: On Peirce's Objective Idealism; I.A. Ibri -- 3. Peircean Semiotic Indeterminacy and Its Relevance for Biosemiotics; R. Lane -- 4. Peircean Habits, Broken Symmetries, and Biosemiotics; E. Fernández -- 5. Semeiotic Causation and the Breath of Life; M. Hulswit, V. Romanini -- 6. The Ineffable, the Individual and the Intelligible: Peircean Reflections on the Innate Ingenuity of the Human Animal; V. Colapietro -- 7. Instinct and Abduction in the Peircean Informational Perspective: Contributions to Biosemiotics; L.F. Barbosa da Silveira, M.E. Quilici Gonzalez -- 8. The Life of Symbols and Other Legisigns: More than a mere Metaphor?; W. Nöth -- 9. Signs without Minds; J. Collier -- 10. Dicent Symbols and Proto-propositions in Biological Mimicry; J. Queiroz -- 11. Semeiosis as a Living Process; V. Romanini -- List of Authors. References. Index.
Keywords: Life sciences; Biology-Philosophy.; Pragmatism; Metaphysics; Life Sciences, general; Philosophy of Biology; Pragmatism; Metaphysics