Computing codes versus interpreting life: Two alternative ways of synthesizing biological knowledge through semiotics

Introduction to Biosemiotics: The New Biological Synthesis

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 209-234

  Artmann, Stefan ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coding theory; Hermeneutics; Methodology of biosemiotics; Model theory; Philosophy of logic and language

Indexed keywords

EID: 65049086829     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4814-9_9     Document Type: Chapter

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