[Archived from http://www.zbi.ee/uexkull/biosemiotics/alist.htm]
Copenhagen May 24-27, 2001
Preliminary list of contributors
Myrdene Anderson – moderating general discussion
Stefan Artman – Three types of semiotic indeterminacy and their relevance to biosemiotics
Marcello Barbieri – A brief history of semantic biology
Thierry Bardini – Does junk-DNA break the genetic code metaphor?
Sabine Brauckmann – Biosemiotics: Is it a tool of theoretical biology or a theory of biology?
Luis Emilio Bruni – Does “quorum sensing” imply a new type of biological information?
Soren Brier – Intrasemiotics
Han-liang Chang – Naming animals in Chinese writing
Sergey Chebanov – On the concept of sense: Towards bilateralist biosemiotics
Peder Voetmann Christiansen – Habit formation as symmetry breaking in the early universe
Claus Emmeche – Biosemiosis, downward causation, and function in the organism
Donald Favareau – Beyond self and other: The neurosemiotic emergence of intersubjectivity
Anton Fürlinger – Is movement the ‘highest’ code?
Peter Harries-Jones – Where bonds become binds: the necessity for Bateson’s inter-subjective perspective in biosemiotics
Jesper Hoffmeyer – Life, energy and semiosis
Wolfgang Hofkirchner – Biosemiosis in the context of self-organization
Abir U. Igamberdiev – Semiotic structure of living systems: imprints, codes and language games
Tuomo Jämsä – Like a sheet of paper: The interplay between sign and meaning in nature
Vefa Karatay and Yagmur Denizhan – Evolution of the “window”
Kalevi Kull – Biosemiotics means biology
Dominique Lestel – Human/animal commmunications, language and evolution
Andres Luure – Understanding life: Trans-semiotic analogies
Anton Markos – An attempt of a hermeneutics of the living
Tiberiu Mustata – The world as semiosis – a semiotic model of reality and evolution
Jorge de Barros Pires – The universality of sign in Charles S. Peirce Semiotics
Jyoo-Hi Rhee – Qualia: From the mind-body dichotomy to the biosemiocybernetic paradigm
Andreas Roepstorff – Thinking with animals
Alexei A. Sharov – Pragmatics and biosemiotics
Martin Skov – Some problems in neurosemiotics
Frederik Stjernfelt – Symbols and the evolutionary transition from animal to man
Edwina Taborsky – Architecture of an evolutionary semiosis
Elling Ulvestad – Evolution, semiotics and extraterrestrial life
Tommi Vehkavaara – How and why to naturalize semiotic concepts for biosemiotics?
Andreas Weber – Mimesis and metaphor. A biosemiotic commentary on the origin of symbolic forms in the cultural philosophy of Ernst Cassirer
Tom Ziemke – Robosemiotics