A legacy for living systems: Gregory Bateson as precursor to biosemiotics

Gregory Bateson’s contribution to 20th century thinking has appealed to scholars from a wide range of fields dealing in one way or another with aspects of communication and epistemology. A number of his insights were taken up and developed further in anthropology, psychology, evolutionary biology and communication theory. But the large, trans-disciplinary synthesis that, in his own mind, was his major contribution to science received little attention from the mainstream scientific communities. This book represents a major attempt to revisethis deficiency. Scholars from ecology, biochemistry, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, anthropology and philosophy discuss how Bateson's thinking might lead to a fruitful reframing of central problems in modern science. Most important perhaps, Bateson's bioanthropology is shown to play a key role in developing the set of ideas explored in the new field of biosemiotics. No competing titles Long overdue Reframing of central problems in modern science INDICE: From the contents 1. Angels fear revisited. Gregory Bateson's cybernetic theory of mind applied to religion-science debates; M.C. Bateson.- 2. From thing to relation. On Bateson's bioanthropology; J. Hoffmeyer.- 3. What connects the map to the territory? T. Cashman.- 4. The pattern which connects pleroma to creatura; T. Deacon, J. Sherman.- 5. Bateson’s method: double description; J. Hui et al.- 6. Gregory Bateson's relevance to current molecular biology; L. Bruni.- 7. Process ecology: creatura at large in an open universe; R.E.Ulanowicz.- 8. Connections in action - bridging implicit and explicit domains; T.S.S. Shilhab, C. Gerlach.- 9. Bateson: biology with meaning; B. Goodwin.- 10. Gregory Bateson's ‘uncovery’ of ecological aesthetics; P. Harries-Jones.- 11. Collapsing the wave function of meaning: the epistemological matrix of talk-in-interaction; D. Favareau.

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-6705-1
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 290
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés