Semiotic agency [electronic resource] : science beyond mechanism / Alexei Sharov, Morten Tønnessen.

This book invites readers to embark on a journey into the world of agency encompassing humans, other organisms, cells, intracellular molecular agents, colonies, populations, ecological systems, and artificial autonomous systems. We combine mechanistic and non-mechanistic approaches in the analysis o...

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Main Author: Sharov, Alexei
Other Authors: Tønnessen, Morten
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.
Series:Biosemiotics ; v. 25.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter1. Introduction
  • Chapter2. Historical Overview of Developments of the Notion of Agency
  • Chapter3. Human Agency
  • Chapter4. Agency in Non-Human Organisms
  • Chapter5. Origins of Life
  • Chapter6. Conceptualizing Agency
  • Chapter7. Semiosis
  • Chapter8. Semiogenesis
  • Chapter9 Phenomenology
  • Chapter10. Composite Agency and Semiotics of Modularity
  • Chapter11. Human Agency and Ecology
  • Chapter12. Agentology: Crosspollination of Science and Philosophy.