Publications

Springer Book Series in Biosemiotics

• Mimicry and Meaning: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry. Maran, Timo. Dordrecht: Springer, 2017.
• The Cultural Implications of Biosemiotics. Cobley, Paul. Dordrecht: Springer, 2016.
• Origins of Mind. Swan, Liz (Editor). Berlin: Springer, 2013.
• The Symbolic Species Evolved. Schilhab, Theresa; Stjernfelt, Frederik; Deacon, Terrence (Editors). Berlin: Springer, 2012.
• Laws, Language and Life: Howard Pattee’s classic papers on the physics of symbols with contemporary commentary. Pattee, Howard Hunt; Rączaszek-Leonardi, Joanna. Berlin: Springer, 2012.
• A Critical Companion to Zoosemiotics: People, Paths, Idea. Martinelli, Dario. Berlin: Springer, 2010.
• Essential Readings in Biosemiotics: Anthology and Commentary. Favareau, Donald (Editor). Berlin: Springer, 2010.
• Life as Its Own Designer: Darwin’s ‘Origin’ and Western Thought. Markoš, Anton et al. Berlin: Springer, 2009.
• The Codes of Life: The Rules of Macroevolution. Barbieri, Marcello (Editor). Berlin: Springer, 2008.
• A Legacy for Living Systems: Gregory Bateson as a Precursor to Biosemiotics. Hoffmeyer, Jesper (Editor). Berlin: Springer, 2008.
• Introduction to Biosemiotics: The New Biological Synthesis. Barbieri, Marcello (Editor). Berlin: Springer, 2007.

Other Recently Released Books

• A More Developed Sign: Interpreting the Work of Jesper Hoffmeyer. Favareau, Donald; Cobley, Paul; Kull, Kalevi (eds). Tartu University Press, 2012.

• Gatherings in Biosemiotics. Rattasepp, Silver; Bennett, Tyler (Editors). Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2012.

• Towards a Semiotic Biology: Life is the Action of Signs. Emmeche, Claus; Kull, Kalevi (Editors). London: Imperial College Press, 2011.

• Semiotics Continues to Astonish: Thomas A. Sebeok and the Doctrine of Signs. Cobley, Paul et al. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.

• Readings in Zoosemiotics. Maran, Timo; Martinelli, Dario; Turovski, Aleksei (Editors). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.

• Reviving the Living: Meaning Making in Living Systems. Neuman, Yair. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2008.

• Biosemiotics: Nature/Culture/Science/Semiosis. Wheeler, Wendy (ed). Living Books About Life Online Series.

• Biosemiotics: An Examination into the Signs of Life and the Life of Signs. Hoffmeyer, Jesper. University of Scranton Press.

• Genes, Information and Semiosis. El-Hani, Charbel Niño et al. Tartu University Press.

• The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Culture. Wheeler, Wendy J. London: Lawrence & Wishart.

• Cybersemiotics: Why Information is Not Enough. Brier, Soren. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

• Biocommunication and Natural Genome Editing. Witzany, Guenther. Springer, Dordrecht.

• Demonios de Darwin: Semiótica y Termodinámica de la Evolución Biológica. Andrade, Eugenio. Bogota: Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

• The Semiotic Animal. Deely, John et al. Toronto: Legas.

• Barbieri, M. 1985. The Semantic Theory of Evolution. London: Harwood Academic Press.

• Barbieri M. 2003. The Organic Codes: An Introduction to Semantic Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Deacon T. 1997. The Symbolic Species. London: Penguin.

• Emmeche C., Kull K., Stjernfelt F. 2002. Reading Hoffmeyer, Rethinking Biology. Tartu: Tartu University Press.

• Hoffmeyer J. 1996. Signs of Meaning in the Universe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

• Markos, A. 2002. Readers of the Book of Life: Contextualizing Developmental Evolutionary Biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Schult, Joachim (ed.) 2004. Biosemiotik – praktische Anwendung und Konsequenzen fur die Einzelwissenschaften. [Studien zur Theorie der Biologie 6.] Berlin: Verlag Wissenschaft und Bildung.

• Sebeok T.A., Umiker-Sebeok J. (eds.) 1992. Biosemiotics: The Semiotic Web 1991. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Taborsky E. (ed.) 1999. Semiosis, Evolution, Energy: Towards a Reconceptualization of the Sign. Aachen: Shaker Verlag.

• Vijver G. van de, Salthe S.N., Delpos M. (eds.) 1998. Evolutionary Systems: Biological and Epistemological Perspectives on Selection and Self-Organization. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

• Neuman, Yair 2003. Processes and Boundaries of the Mind: Extending the limit line. Kluwer.

• Weber, Andreas 2003. Natur als Bedeutung: Versuch einer semiotischen Theorie des Lebendigen. Warzburg: Knigshausen & Neumann.

• Witzany, Guenther 2000. Life: The Communicative Structure. Norderstedt: Libri.

Journals

• Biosemiotics ISBS Members Receive a 50% Discount on Subscriptions!
• Cybernetics and Human Knowing
• Sign Systems Studies
• Semiotics, Evolution, Energy and Development Journal
• Cognition, Communication and Co-operation Journal (Triple C)

Special Issues of Journals

• The American Journal of Semiotics 24.1-3. Favareau, D. (ed.) 2008. Special Issue on Biosemiotics.
• Cybernetics and Human Knowing 10(1). 2003. Thomas Sebeok and the biosemiotic legacy.
• Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 901. Chandler J.L.R., Vijver G. van de (eds.) 2000. Closure: Emergent Organizations and their Dynamics.
• Cybernetics and Human Knowing 5(1). 1998. Life: natural selection, self-organization and semiosis.
• Cybernetics and Human Knowing 7(1). 2000. The Embodied Mind and the Baldwin effect.
• European Journal for Semiotic Studies 9(2), 248-376. Laubichler M.D. (ed.) 1997.
• Semiotica 42(1), 1-87. Uexküll T. (ed.) 1982. Jakob von Uexküll’s ‘The Theory of Meaning’.
• Semiotica 89(4), 277-391. Uexküll T. (ed.) 1992. Jakob von Uexküll’s ‘A Stroll through the Worlds of Animals and Men’.
• Semiotica 120(3/4), 231-482. 1998. Semiotics in the Biosphere: Reviews and Rejoinder.
• Semiotica 127(1/4), 1-655. Sebeok T.A., Hoffmeyer J., Emmeche C. (eds.) 1999. Biosemiotica.
• Semiotica 134(1/4), 1-828. Kull K. (ed.) 2001. Jakob von Uexküll: A Paradigm for Biology and Semiotics.
• Sign Systems Studies 27, 128-147. 1999 [two articles on biosemiotics].
• Sign Systems Studies 28, 326-420. 2000 [five articles on biosemiotics].
• Sign Systems Studies 29(1), 1-376. N-th W., Kull K. (eds.) 2001 [special issue on semiotics of nature].
• Sign Systems Studies 30(1), 1-386. Emmeche C., Hoffmeyer J., Kull K. (eds.) 2001 [special issue on biosemiotics].
• Studium Generale 3(2/3), 61-135. 1950. [About Uexküll’s Umwelt-concept.]
• Zeitschrift für Semiotik 8(3). 1986. Zeichenverhalten der Tiere.
• Zeitschrift für Semiotik [12(4)](https://web.archive.org/web/20170717213448/http://www.tu-berlin.de/~afs/zfs