Keywords:
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882. On the origin of species.
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Evolution (Biology)--Philosophy.
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Hermeneutics.
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Biology--Semiotics.
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Biological Evolution.
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Philosophy.
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Evolutionstheorie swd.
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Rationalität swd.
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Hermeneutik swd.
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Biologisches System swd.
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Selbst organisierendes System swd.
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Schöpfungslehre swd.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Darwin's theory of natural selection still ignites debate between evolutionists and creationists, but this seminal work in the field of Biosemiotics offers a new angle, one that focuses on the life of living beings, treating them as co-creators of their world.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (215 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781402099700
Series Statement:
Biosemiotics Series ; v.4
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=450838
DDC:
576.801
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- Part I Hermeneutic Nature of the World -- In Quest of the Magic Strings The text of this introduction is an elaboration of an essay originally written as a part of a grant proposal (Body and calculus, see Acknowledgements) -- 1 Roots of Rationality and Hermeneutics -- Hermeneutics of the Natural, or how Things Arise -- Religious Preconditions and Contexts in Comprehending Physis -- Nature Loves to Hide Heraclitus B 123. -- Product -- To Discriminate According to Physis -- Generations -- Necessity and Chance, Destiny and Freedom -- Physis, Mathematics, and Moral -- Physis is Temporal and has a Memory -- Physis is Flesh -- Nature is Sufficient for All in All Heraclitus C 2, 15 (in Hippokrates, De alimento, ed. E. Littr0). -- Species and Logical Ideals Possibility of Logical Articulation -- Platos Divided Line as a Map of Relations Between Archetypes and Imitations -- 2 Co-creators of the World -- Singularities and Darwin -- The Sphere -- Appropriation -- Cosmic Dreams -- Complementarity of Scientific and Everyday Language -- Semiosphere -- Order for Free and the Expansion into Adjacent Possible -- 3 Novelty Wherefrom? -- Science and Novelty -- The Grave of the Soul? -- Unde Novum in Philosophy -- Language -- Signification -- Body as a Sign Compared to Letter-Signs -- Self-Reference of Letter-Signs -- Likeness -- Likeness as a Totality of Features -- Genidentity and Entelechy -- To be Like Self -- Whence the New? -- Classification -- Clare et Distincte -- What is it Like to be Me? -- Abstractions -- Logos Incarnate -- Semiotic Coherence -- Becoming -- Speciation -- Every World has its Own Time -- Vestiges of Creation -- 4 Aut Moses aut Darwin. Creation Versus Evolution -- The Questionnaire -- Answering the Poll -- The Controversy Around Darwin as a Symptom -- Things and Objects.
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Contest of Likenesses as a Manifestation of will to Power, i.e. the Struggle for Life -- Genesis and Phylogenesis We are of course aware that the right English spelling is phylogeny. In the ongoing context we want, however, to point towards the meaning genesis that is hidden behind the current form of the word. -- Empirical not Rational -- This is not Science -- The Return to Natural Understanding Evolutionary Nature of Science -- Logos as a Historical Contingency -- Evolutionism as Reformation and Renaissance -- Evolution as Religion By paraphrasing the famous book by Mary Midgley (1985), we pay homage to this extending philosopher -- The Turn of Evolutionism Towards Naturalness: Discovery of Corporeality and of History -- Nature as Narration -- History -- Being from the Beginning -- The Turn of Ages -- Ecological Order -- There is Only One Single Truth: Each Truth is Single -- The Archetypal Essence of the Clash -- The War of Giants -- Part II The Region Life -- Emergence of Pattern Part of the ideas developed in this Introductory part, have appeared in Marko et al. (2007). -- 5 The Living Planet -- Feedback and its Embodiment -- Neo-Darwinism and Gaia -- Gene pool, Communication, Body -- Communication Networks -- Multicellular and Multispecies Structures -- Small World of Complex Systems, and Their Modelling by Graphs -- Fitness Landscapes and Regioning -- 6 What is the Source of Likeness? -- Short Glossary -- How the Terms Homology and Analogy Got Their Recent Meaning: A Brief History -- Troubles with Levels of Description -- Continuity of Information, Genes, and Structures -- Structures and Traits -- Ideas and IDs -- Unity of Semantic Field -- External Appearances -- Back to Letter-Signs (ID) and Shapes (IDea) -- Biosemiotic Interpretation of Portmannian Biology -- 7 Creation and Its Vestiges -- Species as a Cultural Phenomenon.
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What is Passed Down? -- The Sheaf -- Cultural Parables -- The Ghosts of Common Ancestors -- Quaerendo Invenietis -- Epilogue: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs or On Nature -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
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