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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Alexei Sharov , Morten TønnessenPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2021 Volume: 25 Weight: 0.605kg ISBN: 9783030894863ISBN 10: 303089486 Pages: 372 Publication Date: 09 February 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Historical Overview of Developments of the Notion of Agency 3. Human Agency 4. Agency in Non-Human Organisms 5. Origins of Life 6. Conceptualizing Agency 7. Semiosis 8. Semiogenesis 9 Phenomenology 10. Composite Agency and Semiotics of Modularity 11. Human Agency and Ecology 12. Agentology: Crosspollination of Science and PhilosophyReviewsAuthor InformationAlexei Sharov, Ph.D., retired from the staff scientist position at the US National Institute on Aging, NIH. He is currently a Vice President in Bioinformatics at Elixirgen Scientific Inc. (Baltimore, USA). Since 2013 he serves as an Editor-in-Chief for the journal Biosemiotics, and from 2015 - as an editor of the Book Series in Biosemiotics (Springer). He was a member of the Research Group on Theoretical Biology at Moscow State University (Russia), organized seminars and two conferences on biosemiotics, and has awards for research in forest ecology, USA. He has published two books (in Russian) and edited two special issues in scientific journals and a book “Habitability of the Universe before Earth” (2018). Among his over 160 peer-reviewed publications, the following articles explore foundations of the concept of semiotic agency: “Functional information” (2010), “Protosemiosis: agency with reduced representation capacity” (2015, with Vehkavaara), “Evolutionary biosemiotics and multilevel construction networks” (2016), “Composite agency: semiotics of modularity and guiding interactions” (2017), and “Mind, agency, and biosemiotics” (2018). Morten Tønnessen, Ph.D., is Professor of philosophy and Head of department at the Department of social studies, University of Stavanger, Norway. He is currently the President of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS), and a member of Norway´s Council for animal ethics. In the period 2013–2019, he served as an Editor-in-Chief for the journal Biosemiotics. In his biosemiotic research, Tønnessen has particularly been engaged in discussing, criticizing and applying the Umwelt theory of Jakob von Uexküll, aiming to make Umwelt theory more applicable in contemporary times. Key texts in this regard include “Umwelt ethics” (2003), “Umwelt transitions: Uexküll and environmental change” (2009), “Steps to a semiotics of being” (2010), “Umwelt trajectories” (2014) and “Introduction: The relevance of Uexküll's Umwelt theory today” (2015). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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