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Michael Yudanin
Discursivity and semiotic complexity as driving the shape of animal choice and human freedom [Slides from the presentation] Biosemiotics, it seems, holds the key not only to understanding life but also to one of the more intractable issues that has been bewildering philosophy for a long while – the question of freedom. If we are…
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Hongbing Yu
Danger Modeling: Meaning-generation in Three Dimensions [Slides from the presentation] In the struggle for existence, any known species of organisms must avert danger to ensure survival. To do that, they need to identify—or model—it in ways that are specific to their species and actualized in concrete situations. This is an act of generating meaning that…
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Aleksei Turovski
An attempt at a semiotic approach to animal play and joking Play in the animal kingdom is an extremely widespread phenomenon, most studied in higher vertebrates (birds and mammals), but clearly existing in the behavior of reptiles and fish, possibly even arachnids and insects. Definitely in cephalopods, chiefly octopuses. The phenomenon of animal play is…
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Sigmund Ongstad
Structures of Animal Utterances Seen as Aesthetics – and as Communication. Semiotic perspectives on functions of so-called animal beauty Due to a dramatic increase of research in ethology and zoo-communication over the last decades biosemiotics has now access to an extensive amount of empirical studies of how and why animals structure their utterances. Research…
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Nicola Zengiaro
Ecosemiotics between matter and life: starting from John Deely’s interpretation of semiotic scaffolding [Slides from the presentation] The presentation is an extension of the arguments proposed by John Deely in his article “Building a Scaffold: Semiosis in Nature and Culture”, published in 2015 in the journal Biosemiotics. In particular, the idea that physical scaffolding prepares…
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Morten Tønnessen
A biosemiotic perspective on the human condition and the environmental crisis [Slides from the presentation] In this presentation I will present the book chapter “A biosemiotic perspective on the human condition and the environmental crisis” (Tønnessen, forthcoming). The chapter presents a biosemiotic perspective on the basic situation for human beings and that of other organisms,…
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John Pickering
Extending Biosemiotics The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis also extends the role of biosemiotics. This paper will seek to extend it further, both to the metaphysics of C. S. Peirce and A. N Whitehead and to Ingold’s treatment of inheritance (Ingold, 2022). Firstness, experience without reaction, is fundamental to Peirce’s metaphysics, giving qualia an ontological status equivalent…
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Tommi Vehkavaara
Meaningfulness and applicability of semiotic concepts in biosemiotics The 1st Gatherings in biosemiotics was held 22 years ago in Copenhagen and the first sentence of its CFP proclaimed the intention “to establish a regular framework for discussions of biosemiotics in the context of biology”. I must have been taken that seriously, because without being biologist…
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Brian Khumalo and Rick Stepp
Refining how the term ‘Icon’ is conceived as a Step towards Nomothetic Descriptions of Behavioral-Ecological Events The term icon is ubiquitous. For example, in linguistics iconicity is conceived as the relationship between speech acts and meaning whereas in semiotics broadly, iconicity is conceived as a grounded relationship between an icon and its referent. While these…
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Julian Zubek & Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi
A view on abstract concepts from an interaction-based perspective: An attempt at a semiotic analysis Most of the approaches to concepts, both in cognitive science and in artificial intelligence, are informed by information-processing views. Concepts are mapped to categories, which despite their fuzzy boundaries, graded structure and family resemblance (Rosch, 1973), are still mostly characterized…
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