Biosemiotics to date has focused on the exchange of signals between organisms, in line
with bioacoustics; consideration of the wider acoustic environment as a semiotic medium is …

Experimental studies show that some corvids, apes, and rodents possess a common long-
term memory system that allows them to take goal-directed actions on the basis of absent …

How the prized matsutake mushroom is remaking human communities in China—and
providing new ways to understand human and more-than-human worlds What a Mushroom …

Jakob von Uexküll developed his core ideas on Umwelt, inner world, counter world, and the
functional circle over 100 years ago. While they influenced the early ethologists and …

Jakob von Uexküll's umwelt theory opens new perspectives for understanding animal
extinction. The umwelt is interpreted here as a sum of structural correspondences between …

This paper reconsiders semiotic modelling in light of recent scholarship on Charles Peirce,
particularly regarding his concept of proposition. Conceived in the vein of Peirce's …

Catherine Beaugrand is a visual artist, formerly a mixed media teacher at the National
School of Fine Arts in Lyon. Since the beginning of the 1980s, after studies in anthropology …

The article aims to provide a general framework for assessing and categorizing the cognitive
systems of human and non-human animals. Our approach stems from biosemiotic …

This study develops a biosemiotic framework for a descriptive phenomenology. We
incorporate the set utterance-genre-lifeworld in biosemiotic theory by paralleling it with the …

Only the incurious and philosophically challenged doubt the significance of dignity as a
central issue in human interactions. Human dignity is much debated in religion, law, moral …