A semiotical reflection on biology, living signs and artificial life

✍ Scribed by Claus Emmeche

• Book ID: 104634537
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1012 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0169-3867
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00132235

✦ Synopsis

It is argued, that theory of signs, especially in the tradition of the great philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce can inspire the study of central problems in the philosophy of biology. Three such problems are considered: (1) The nature of biology as a science, where a semiotically informed pluralistic approach to the theory of science is introduced. (2) The peculiarity of the general object of biology, where a realistic interpretation of sign-and information-concepts is required to see signprocesses as immanent in nature. (3) The possibility of an artificial construction of life, hereby discussed as a conceptual problem in the present form of the artificial life project and its implied definition of life.