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

Title
A legacy for living systems : Gregory Bateson as precursor to biosemiotics / Jesper Hoffmeyer, editor.
Publication
[New York] : Springer, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors
Hoffmeyer, Jesper.
Description
x, 288 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Biosemiotics ; v. 2
Uniform Title
Biosemiotics ; v. 2.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Bateson the Precursor / Jesper Hoffmeyer -- Ch. 1. Angels Fear Revisited: Gregory Bateson's Cybernetic Theory of Mind Applied to Religion-Science Debates / Mary Catherine Bateson -- Ch. 2. From Thing to Relation. On Bateson's Bioanthropology / Jesper Hoffmeyer -- Ch. 3. What Connects the Map to the Territory? / Tyrone Cashman -- Ch. 4. The Pattern Which Connects Pleroma to Creatura: The Autocell Bridge from Physics to Life / Terrence Deacon and Jeremy Sherman -- Ch. 5. Bateson's Method: Double Description. What is It? How Does It Work? What Do We Learn? / Julie Hui, Tyrone Cashman and Terrence Deacon -- Ch. 6. Gregory Bateson's Relevance to Current Molecular Biology / Luis Emilio Bruni -- Ch. 7. Process Ecology: Creatura at Large in an Open Universe / Robert E. Ulanowicz -- Ch. 8. Connections in Action - Bridging Implicit and Explicit Domains / Theresa S. S. Schilhab and Christian Gerlach -- Ch. 9. Bateson: Biology with Meaning / Brian Goodwin -- Ch. 10. Gregory Bateson's "Uncovery" Of Ecological Aesthetics / Peter Harries-Jones -- Ch. 11. Collapsing the Wave Function of Meaning: The Epistemological Matrix of Talk-in-Interaction / Donald Favareau -- Ch. 12. Re-Enchanting Evolution: Transcending Fundamentalisms through a Mythopoeic Epistemology / Gregory Mengel -- Ch. 13. Bateson and Peirce on the Pattern that Connects and the Sacred / Soren Brier -- Ch. 14. Bateson, Peirce, and the Sign or the Sacred / Deborah Eicher-Catt.
ISBN
  • 1402067054
  • 9781402067051
LCCN
99932800005
OCLC
  • ocn213479639
  • 213479639
  • SCSB-5457071
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries