Essential Readings in Biosemiotics

1. Introduction: An Evolutionary History of Biosemiotics
Donald Favareau

Part I. Sebeok’s Precursors and Influences

2. The Theory of Meaning
Donald Favareau

3. The Logic of Signs
Donald Favareau

4. Excerpts from Signs, Language and Behavior

Donald Favareau

5. Excerpts from Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture

Donald Favareau

Part II. The Biosemiotic Project of Thomas A. Sebeok

6. Biosemiotics: Its Roots, Proliferation and Prospects
Donald Favareau

7. The Clever Hans Phenomenon from an Animal Psychologist’s Point of View
Donald Favareau

8. Phytosemiotics
Donald Favareau

9. Endosemiosis
Donald Favareau

10. Signs and Codes in Immunology
Donald Favareau

11. From Animal to Man: Thought and Language
Donald Favareau

12. A Semiotic Perspective on the Sciences: Steps Toward a New Paradigm
Donald Favareau

Part III. Independent Approaches to Biosemiotics

13. Theoretical Biology on Its Way to Biosemiotics
Donald Favareau

14. Laws of Symbolic Mediation in the Dynamics of Self and Personality
Donald Favareau

15. Concepts of Molecular Biosemiotics
Donald Favareau

16. Form, Substance and Difference
Donald Favareau

17. The Physics and Metaphysics of Biosemiotics
Donald Favareau

18. Excerpts from The Symbolic Species

Donald Favareau

Part IV. The Contemporary Interdiscipline of Biosemiotics

19. The Semiotics of Nature: Code-Duality
Donald Favareau

20. Information and Semiosis in Living Systems: A Semiotic Approach
Donald Favareau

21. Excerpts from Readers of the Book of Life

Donald Favareau

22. The Cybersemiotic Model of Communication: An Evolutionary View on the Threshold between Semiosis and Informational Exchange
Donald Favareau

23. Excerpts from The Logos of the Bios

Donald Favareau

24. Biosemiotics: A New Understanding of Life
Donald Favareau

Keywords: Life Sciences, Life Sciences, general, Linguistics (general), Philosophy of Mind, Evolutionary Biology