A Biosemiotic Ontology The Philosophy of Giorgio Prodi /

• Main Author: Cimatti, Felice (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Biosemiotics, 18
• Subjects: Semiotics.; Ontology.; Philosophy of mind.; Life sciences.; Logic.; Philosophy of Mind.; Life Sciences, general.

Giorgio Prodi (1928-1987) was an important Italian scientist who developed an original philosophy based on two basic assumptions: 1. life is mainly a semiotic phenomenon; 2. matter is somewhat a semiotic phenomenon. Prodi applies Peirce's cenopythagorean categories to all phenomena of life and...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Life
• Chapter 3. Scientist because Philosopher, Philosopher because Scientist
• Chapter 4. The Line and the Circle
• Chapter 5. The Biological Model: for an anti-Cartesian semiotics
• Chapter 6. Of the Complementarity of the Sign
• Chapter 7. The Origin of Language
• Chapter 8. Attention and Consciousness
• Chapter 9. Breaking the Circle
• Chapter 10. Language and Ethics
• Chapter 11. The "Darkness" Between Aesthetics and the Sacred
• Chapter 12. Conclusion: Prodi and Italian Thought.