Major publications in biosemiotics


BOOKS

Sebeok T.A., Umiker-Sebeok J. (eds.) 1992. Biosemiotics: The Semiotic Web 1991. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Pollack R. 1994. Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA. London: Viking.

Hoffmeyer J. 1996. Signs of Meaning in the Universe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Deacon T. 1997. The Symbolic Species. London: Penguin.

Vijver G. van de, Salthe S.N., Delpos M. (eds.) 1998. Evolutionary Systems: Biological and Epistemological Perspectives on Selection and Self-Organization. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Taborsky E. (ed.) 1999. Semiosis, Evolution, Energy: Towards a Reconceptualization of the Sign. Aachen: Shaker Verlag.

Barbieri M. 2003. The Organic Codes: An Introduction to Semantic Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Emmeche C., Kull K., Stjernfelt F. 2002. Reading Hoffmeyer, Rethinking Biology. Tartu: Tartu University Press.

Markos, A. 2002. Readers of the Book of Life: Contextualizing Developmental Evolutionary Biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Weber, Andreas 2003. Natur als Bedeutung: Versuch einer semiotischen Theorie des Lebendigen. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.

Neuman, Yair 2003. Processes and Boundaries of the Mind: Extending the limit line. Kluwer.

Schult, Joachim (ed.) 2004. Biosemiotik - praktische Anwendung und Konsequenzen für die Einzelwissenschaften. [Studien zur Theorie der Biologie 6.] Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung.

Hoffmeyer, Jesper 2005. Biosemiotik: En afhandling om livets tegn og tegnenes liv. Charlottenlund: Ries.

Witzany, Günther 2006. The Logos of the Bios 1: Contributions to the Foundation of a Three-leveled Biosemiotics. Tartu: Umweb. [vol. 2: Bio-Communication. 2007.]

Wheeler, Wendy 2006. The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Culture. London: Lawrence & Wishart.

Martinelli, Dario 2007. Zoosemiotics: Proposals for a Handbook. (Acta Semiotica Fennica 26.)

Witzany, Günther (ed.) 2007. Biosemiotics in Transdisciplinary Contexts. Salzburg: Umweb.

Weber, Andreas 2007. Alles Fühlt: Mensch, Natur und die Revolution der Lebenswissenschaften. Berlin: Berlin Verlag.


JOURNALS

Journal of Biosemiotics


SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 901, 1-349. Chandler J.L.R., Vijver G. van de (eds.) 2000. Closure: Emergent Organizations and their Dynamics.

Cybernetics and Human Knowing 5(1), 3-42. 1998. Life: natural selection, self-organization and semiosis.

Cybernetics and Human Knowing 7(1). 2000. The Embodied Mind and the Baldwin effect.

Cybernetics and Human Knowing 10(1). 2003. Thomas Sebeok and the biosemiotic legacy.

European Journal for Semiotic Studies 9(2), 248-376. Laubichler M.D. (ed.) 1997.

Journal of Biosemiotics 1(1), 2005; 1(2), 2005.

Semiotica 42(1), 1-87. Uexküll T. (ed.) 1982. Jakob von Uexküll's 'The Theory of Meaning'.

Semiotica 89(4), 277-391. Uexküll T. (ed.) 1992. Jakob von Uexküll's '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 Uexküll: 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. Nöth 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].

Sign Systems Studies 32(1/2), 1-383. Kull K., Rüting T. (eds.) 2004 [special issue on Jakob von Uexküll].

Studium Generale 3(2/3), 61-135. 1950. [About Uexküll's Umwelt-concept.]

Zeitschrift für Semiotik 8(3). 1986. Zeichenverhalten der Tiere.

Zeitschrift für Semiotik 12(4). 1990. Kultur und Evolution.

Zeitschrift für Semiotik 15(1/2). 1993. Kommunikation zwischen Mensch und Tier.

Zeitschrift für Semiotik 18(1). 1996. Natur, Umwelt, Zeichen.

 

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