Showing papers by "Kalevi Kull published in 1998"

On semiosis, Umwelt, and semiosphere

Abstract: Dans le cadre du numero de la revue «Semiotica» (120, 3/4, 1998) consacre a la lecture de l'ouvrage de J. Hoffmeyer intitule «Signs of meaning in the universe» (1996), l'A. se propose de definir et de commenter les notions de semiosis, environnement et semiosphere sur lesquelles repose l'entreprise biosemiotique de Hoffmeyer, operant un tournant cognitif dans le domaine de la biologie. Examinant les finalites et les methodes de la biosemiotique concernant le concept d'information, le dualisme esprit-corps, l'opposition sciences humaines/sciences naturelles et humanite/nature, l'A. montre que la discipline definie par Hoffmeyer inaugure un nouveau paradigme en biologie empirique comme en biologie theorique, dressant des ponts entre des systemes complexes

Sign systems studies

Abstract: Protosemiotics is the study of the rudiments of semiosis, primarily in nature. The extension of the semiotic field from culture to nature is both necessary and possible in the framework of Peirce’s semiotic theory. Against this extension, the critique of pansemiotism has been raised. However, Peirce’s semiotics is not pansemiotic since it is based on the criterion of thirdness, which is not ubiquitous in nature. The paper examines the criteria of protosemiosis in the domain of physical and mechanical processes.