BIO-SEMIOTICS: A NEW SCIENCE OF BIOLOGY?Bio-semiotics is BIO-SEMIOTICS: A NEW SCIENCE OF BIOLOGY?

• Authors: Dušan Gálik
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Bio-semiotics is a new approach to the explanation of living. The central thesis of bio-semiotics, “life is semiosis”, is a basis for a new science of living which should replace contemporary (or traditional) biology. The reason is that bio-semiotics reveals new qualities of living, which are inaccessible through the methods of contemporary, pure empirical biology. The paper outlines basic theses of bio-semiotics, distinguishes two main approaches, and challenges the central thesis with the focus upon its interpretation in “scientific” bio-semiotics.

Keywords

EN

BIO-SEMIOTICS; BIOLOGY; SEMIOSIS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 68
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 859 – 867

Contributors

author

Dušan Gálik

• Filozofický ústav SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic