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2008年2月1日星期五

The difference between general semiotician and biosemiotician

符號學家係指研究符號傳意的人文科學家，其研究的符號含蓋所有涉及：
文字符號、訊號符號、密碼符號、古文明記號、手語等科學符號。　

在時代演進的情況下，各門專業被更加的細分結果，導致當代符號學家依符號的特質做更詳細的分類，現代符號學家當中包括了：歷史符號學家文學符號學家文化符號學家社會符號學家生物符號學家生存符號學家影像符號學家藝術符號學家電影符號學家建築符號學家人類學符號學家　

甚至，在南洋大海嘯之後，有部份符號學家專門研究起『災難符號學』分科，姑且可稱這些符號學家為「災難符號學家」。　

其實，符號學家還不只上述這些，舉凡政治學.經濟學.教育學.建築學.音樂學.社會學.語言學.認知科學.傳播學.邏輯學.闡釋學.地圖學.製圖學.性別研究.城市研究跨文化研究.等各個學術領域的符號之實際應用，都有符號學家在做專門的研究。

生物符號學家定義，基本上，凡是探討動物(包括人類)作為感官個體，透過『符號』的放送與接收，形成與環境的互動關係，此類的符號學家，就是生物符號學家。　

生物符號學所研究的生物符號，是 focus 在動物的符號信息之傳達，有時藉由聲音、肢體語言、或是環境標示，來製造特殊意義的方式，動物之符號所建構的世界，無異於把廣大沒有邊際的自然，作了一個選擇性、功能性的建構。

人類的世界跟動物其實很像，我們會用文字、繪畫等象徵系統傳達信息，這是生物本能，人雖然是高等動物，但是此類符號訊息的傳達，乃出自於低等動物生物本能的延續。因此，瞭解生物符號，對研究人類各項符號學，有莫大的助益。

2008年1月10日星期四

Antonio Caetano de Abren Freire Egas Moniz

António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz (born November 29, 1874, died December 13, 1955), pron. IPA: , was a Portuguese Neurologist. He was the first Portuguese to receive a Nobel Prize, "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses".
He was born in Avanca, Portugal. He was the inventor of prefrontal leucotomy which was changed to lobotomy by American surgeons Walter Freeman and James Watts, who introduced a larger severing of the neural fibres. It was used as a surgical approach to the radical treatment of several kinds of mental diseases; one of the several types of psychosurgery. For this work, Moniz received the Nobel Prize in 1949, jointly with the Swiss neurophysiologist Walter Rudolf Hess.

Antonio Caetano de Abren Freire Egas Moniz (1874-1949* -1955) 生平

Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz

António Egas Moniz, or António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz (Portuguese neurologist)

Egas Moniz, António Caetano de Abreu Freire

ANTONIO CAETANO DE ABREU FREIRE EGAS MONIZ

Antonio Caetanode Abreu Freire Egas Moniz *1874, † 1955

Moniz, Antonio Caetano d'Abreu Freire Egas (1874-1955)

António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz

諾貝爾獎得主

Walter Rudolf Hess

A Swiss neurophysiologist, Walter Rudolf Hess (1881-1973) won the 1949 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (with Antonio Egas Moniz) for discovering the role played by certain parts of the brain in coordinating the functions of internal organs.
The son of Professor Clemenz Hess, Walter Rudolf Hess was born at Frauenfeld, Switzerland, on March 17, 1881. In 1900 he became a medical student at the University of Lausanne, and after more study in Switzerland and Germany, he graduated from the University of Zurich in 1906. He became a practicing ophthalmologist, but in 1912 he turned to physiology. In 1917 Hess was appointed professor of physiology and director of the Institute of Physiology at the University of Zurich.

Walter Rudolf Hess (1881-1949*-1973) 生平

Walter HessThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949

Hess, Walter Rudolf (1881-1973)

Scientist: Walter Rudolf Hess

1949年諾貝爾生理醫學獎 ~發現間腦為體內所有器官的協調中樞~

Walter Rudolf Hess

Walter Rudolf Hess Biography (1881-1973)

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949

Walter Rudolf Hess born March 17, 1881, Frauenfeld, Switz.died Aug. 12, 1973, Ascona

Walter Rudolf Hess

WALTER RUDOLF HESS --1949 Nobel Laureate in Medicine

諾貝爾生理醫學獎百年得主一覽表

Marcello Barbieri

The idea that the genetic code is only the first of a long series of organic codes was proposed for the first time in 1985 in the book The Semantic Theory of Evolution. Since then, the experimental scenario has changed considerably and the arguments in favour of other organic codes have increased, making it necessary to add a second volume to that first book.

Marcello Barbieri

生命符號學是否已進入成熟期？

Introduction to Biosemiotics

THE ORGANIC CODESThe birth of semantic biology

John Deely

John Deely (born 1942) is Professor of Philosophy at the Center for Thomistic Studies of the University of St. Thomas (Houston). He is one among many accomplished scholars at the Center.
His main research concerns the role of semiosis (the action of signs) in mediating objects and things. He specifically investigates the manner in which experience itself is a dynamic structure (or web) woven of triadic relations (signs in the strict sense) whose elements or terms (representaments, significates and interpretants) interchange positions and roles over time in the spiral of semiosis. He is currently (2006-2007) Executive Director of the Semiotic Society of America.

John Deely (1942-)

Semiotics and Ontology--Annotated Bibliography of John Deely--First part: 1965-1993

Semiotics and Ontology--Annotated Bibliography of John Deely--Second part: 1994-2007

Thomas Albert Sebeok, "Biologist Manqué" -- John Deely

Basics of Semiotics

Claude Levi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss was one of the most influential anthropologists of the 20th century. The founder of Structuralism, Lévi-Strauss was also notable for his extensive field work among primitive tribes and his (Marxist-influenced) view that the customs and beliefs held by such tribes were in no way inferior to the customs and beliefs held by so-called civilized societies.

While other anthropological schools of thought focused on studying the history and material culture of primitive societies (describing their tools, weapons, homes, costumes) or on their social structures (politics, kinship, roles of men vs. women), Lévi-Strauss' Structuralism focused on the harder to define inner life of a society and its members. He attempted to describe systems of meaning and the ways in which these were expressed in a culture's mythologies and relationships of exchange (between individuals within the culture).

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2008年1月9日星期三

Thomas Albert Sebeok

Thomas A. Sebeok, a pioneer in the field of semiotics and Distinguished Professor emeritus of linguistics and semiotics at Indiana University, died at his home on December 21, 2001.

Thomas Albert Sebeok (1920-2001) 生平

Thomas Sebeok

Thomas Albert Sebeok, "Biologist Manqué"

Thomas A. Sebeok (1920-2001)

Sebeok, Thomas A., 1920-2001.

Books by Thomas A. Sebeok

Thomas A. Sebeok and biology: Building Semiotics

Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882)

The classic English country gentleman, Darwin seems an unlikely figure to create a controversy. He had developed a radical theory that brought him into conflict with a very traditional establishment – the Anglican Church. History has vindicated him and he is now celebrated as one of the greatest and most innovative scientists who ever lived. But, Alfred Russel Wallace, who hit upon the theory at the same time, has not received similar recognition.
To this day, Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is widely accepted, and explains the distant origins and fantastic variety of life on Earth.

Charles Robert Darwin 相關生平

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Charles Darwin--Biography

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 - 19 April 1883)

Charles (Robert) Darwin (1809-1882)

Hall of Fame - Charles Robert Darwin

To read literature by Charles Darwin, select from the list on the left.

Charles Darwin, Human Origins and Uncommon Sense

Charles Darwin

The Life of Charles Darwin: From Aimless Adventure to Tragedy and Discovery