Back to the science of life
Back to the science of life
Author(s): Fatima Cvrčková, Anton MarkošSubject(s): Semiotics / Semiology
Published by: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus
Summary/Abstract: We give a survey of epistemological and ontological approaches that have left traces in the 20th-century biology. A common motive of most of them is the effort to incorporate biology into the realm of physical sciences. However, such attempts failed, and must fail in the future, unless the criterion for what science is becomes biologically oriented. This means broadening the realm of classical natural sciences, incorporating at least part of the thesaurus of the “humanities”. We suggest three mutually complementary candidates for further development in this direction: modular biology, the hermeneutics of the living, and the semiotic disciplines.
Journal: Σημειωτκή - Sign Systems Studies
- Issue Year: 30/2002
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 129-147
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English