Major Publications in Biosemiotics

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Origins of Mind. Swan, Liz (Editor) Berlin: Springer, 2013.

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Books about Biosemio

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The Symbolic Species Evolved. . Schilhab, Theresa; Stjernfelt, Frederik;

Deacon, Terrence (Editors). Berlin: Springer, 2012.

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Laws, Language And Life. Howard Pattees classic papers on the physics
of symbols with contemporary commentary. Pattee, Howard Hunt,
Rczaszek-Leonardi, Joanna. Berlin: Springer, 2012.

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A Critical Companion to Zoosemiotics: People, Paths, Idea. Martinelli,

Dario. Berlin: Springer, 2010.
Essential Readings in Biosemiotics: Anthology and
Commentary.Favareau, Donald (Editor). Berlin: Springer, 2010.
Life as Its Own Designer: Darwins Origin and Western Thought. by
Anton Marko, Filip Grygar, Lszl Hajnal, Karel Kleisner, Zdenek Kratochvl,
and Zdenek Neubauer. Berlin: Springer, 2009.
The Codes of Life: The Rules of Macroevolution. Barbieri, Marcello (Editor).
Berlin: Springer, 2008.
A Legacy for Living Systems: Gregory Bateson as a Precursor to
Biosemiotics. Hoffmeyer, Jesper (Editor). Berlin: Springer, 2008.
Introduction to Biosemiotics: The New Biological Synthesis. Barbieri,
Marcello (Editor). Berlin: Springer, 2007.

Other Recently Released Books

Origins of Mind. Swan, Liz (Editor) Berlin: Springer, 2013.
A More Developed Sign: Interpreting the Work of Jesper
Hoffmeyer.Favareau, Donald; Cobley, Paul; Kull, Kalevi (eds).Tartu
University Press, 2012.
Gatherings in Biosemiotics. (Tartu Semiotics Library 11). Rattasepp,
Silver; Bennett, Tyler (Editors). Tartu : University of Tartu Press, 2012.

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Past gatherings in
biosemiotics

Towards a Semiotic Biology. Life is the Action of Signs. Emmeche, Claus;

Kull, Kalevi (Editors) London: Imperial College Press, 2011.
Semiotics Continues to Astonish: Thomas A. Sebeok and the Doctrine of
Signs. . Cobley, Paul; Deely, John; Kull, Kalevi; Petrilli, Susan (Editors). Berlin:
De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.
Readings in Zoosemiotics. Maran, Timo; Martinelli, Dario; Turovski, Aleksei
(Editors). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.
Reviving the Living: Meaning Making in Living Systems. Neuman, Yair.
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2008.
Biosemiotics: Nature/Culture/Science/Semiosis. Wheeler, Wendy
(ed).Living Books About Life Online Series.
Biosemiotics: An Examination into the Signs of Life and the Life of
Signs.Hoffmeyer, Jesper. University of Scranton Press.
Genes, Information and Semiosis. Charbel Nio El-Hani, Joo Queiroz,
Claus Emmeche . Tartu University Press.
Reviving the Living: Meaning Making in Living Systems. Neuman,
Yair.Amsterdam: Elsevier.
The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics and the Evolution of
Culture. Wheeler, Wendy J. London: Lawrence & Wishart.
Cybersemiotics: Why Information is Not Enough. Brier, Soren. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press.
Biocommunication and Natural Genome Editing. Witzany,
Guenther.Springer, Dordrecht.
Demonios de Darwin. Semitica y Termodinmica de la Evolucin
Biolgica. Andrade, Eugenio. Bogota: Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
The Semiotic Animal. Deely, John; Petrilli, Susan & Ponzio,
AugustoToronto: Legas.

Foundational Readings
Barbieri, M. 1985. The Semantic Theory of Evolution. London: Harwood
Academic Press.
Barbieri M. 2003. The Organic Codes: An Introduction to Semantic
Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Deacon T. 1997. The Symbolic Species. London: Penguin.
Emmeche C., Kull K., Stjernfelt F. 2002. Reading Hoffmeyer, Rethinking
Biology. Tartu: Tartu University Press.
Hoffmeyer J. 1996. Signs of Meaning in the Universe. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press.
Markos, A. 2002. Readers of the Book of Life: Contextualizing
Developmental Evolutionary Biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Schult, Joachim (ed.) 2004. Biosemiotik praktische Anwendung und
Konsequenzen fur die Einzelwissenschaften. [Studien zur Theorie der

Biologie 6.] Berlin: Verlag Wissenschaft und Bildung.

Sebeok T.A., Umiker-Sebeok J. (eds.) 1992. Biosemiotics: The Semiotic Web
1991. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Taborsky E. (ed.) 1999. Semiosis, Evolution, Energy: Towards a
Reconceptualization of the Sign. Aachen: Shaker Verlag.
Vijver G. van de, Salthe S.N., Delpos M. (eds.) 1998. Evolutionary Systems:
Biological and Epistemological Perspectives on Selection and Self-Organization.
Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Neuman, Yair 2003. Processes and Boundaries of the Mind: Extending
the limit line. Kluwer.
Weber, Andreas 2003. Natur als Bedeutung: Versuch einer semiotischen Theorie
des Lebendigen. Warzburg: Knigshausen & Neumann.
Witzany, Guenther 2000. Life:The Communicative
Structure.Norderstedt:Libri.

Journals
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Cybernetics and Human Knowing
Sign Systems Studies
Semiotics, Evolution, Energy and Development Journal
Cognition, Communication and Co-operation Journal (Triple C)

Special Issues of Journals

The American Journal of Semiotics 24.1-3. Favareau, D. (ed.) 2008. Special
Issue on Biosemiotics.
Cybernetics and Human Knowing 10(1). 2003. Thomas Sebeok and the
biosemiotic legacy.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 901. Chandler J.L.R., Vijver G.
van de (eds.) 2000. Closure: Emergent Organizations and their Dynamics.
Cybernetics and Human Knowing 5(1). 1998. Life: natural selection,
self-organization and semiosis.
Cybernetics and Human Knowing 7(1). 2000. The Embodied Mind and the
Baldwin effect.
European Journal for Semiotic Studies 9(2), 248-376. Laubichler M.D. (ed.)
1997.
Semiotica 42(1), 1-87. Uexkll T. (ed.) 1982. Jakob von Uexklls The Theory
of Meaning.
Semiotica 89(4), 277-391. Uexkll T. (ed.) 1992. Jakob von Uexklls A Stroll

through the Worlds of Animals and Men.

Semiotica 120(3/4), 231-482. 1998. Semiotics in the Biosphere: Reviews and
Rejoinder.
Semiotica 127(1/4), 1-655. Sebeok T.A., Hoffmeyer J., Emmeche C. (eds.)
1999. Biosemiotica.
Semiotica 134(1/4), 1-828. Kull K. (ed.) 2001. Jakob von Uexkll: A Paradigm
for Biology and Semiotics.
Sign Systems Studies 27, 128-147. 1999 [two articles on biosemiotics].
Sign Systems Studies 28, 326-420. 2000 [five articles on biosemiotics].
Sign Systems Studies 29(1), 1-376. N-th W., Kull K. (eds.) 2001 [special issue
on semiotics of nature].
Sign Systems Studies 30(1), 1-386. Emmeche C., Hoffmeyer J., Kull K. (eds.)
2001 [special issue on biosemiotics].
Studium Generale 3(2/3), 61-135. 1950. [About Uexklls Umwelt-concept.]
Zeitschrift fr Semiotik 8(3). 1986. Zeichenverhalten der Tiere.
Zeitschrift fr Semiotik 12(4). 1990. Kultur und Evolution.
Zeitschrift fr Semiotik 15(1/2). 1993. Kommunikation zwischen Mensch und
Tier.
Zeitschrift fr Semiotik 18(1). 1996. Natur, Umwelt, Zeichen.
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