Biosemiotics and Evolution

Introduction.- Part I: Life, meaning, and information.- Exploring the philosophical background and scientific foundations of naturalist approaches to meaning and symbolism.- Life sciences and the natural history of signs: can the origin of life processes coincide with the emergence of semiosis?.- A proposal for a biosemiotic approach to digitalization: literacy as modelling competence.- Threshold, meaning and life.- How information gets its meaning.- Part II: Semiosis and evolution.- Inclusive Fitness teleology and Darwinian explanatory pluralism: a theoretical sketch and an application to current controversies.- The origins and evolution of design: a stage-based model.- Biosemiotics and applied evolutionary epistemology: a comparison.- Extended synthesis and Jablonka and Lamb's four-dimensional view of evolution.- Part III: Physics, medicine, and bioenergetics.- Physical intentionality: the phenomenological roots of biosemiotics.- Cancer and cell death: a biosemiotic perspective.- Biosemiotics and bioenergetics: two perspectives compared.

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biosemiotics;naturalism;symbolism;evolutionary epistemology;fitness teleology;Modern Synthesis;Extended Synthesis;Neo-Darwinism;Formal Darwinism;archaeology of bioinformation;evolution theory;evolution;Physical Intentionality;biological intentionality;semiosis;ecosemiotics;bodily mimesis;proto-design;semiotics & bioinformatics