O tamanho do self, problemas não resolvidos na biosemiótica e o sentido da ciência: uma entrevista com Kalevi Kull

Arthur Walber Viana

doi:10.19132/1807-8583.57.142646

The size of the self, unresolved problems in biosemiotics and the sense of science

an interview with Kalevi Kull

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Arthur Walber Viana Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2217-2084

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https://doi.org/10.19132/1807-8583.57.142646

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Kalevi Kull, biosemiotics, umwelt, symbiosis, biotopia

Abstract

Interview with biosemiotician Kalevi Kull, inheritor of the legacy of Tartu-Moscow School – birthplace of what is conventionally called Semiotics of Culture. Topics covered include current problems faced by biosemiotics, for example, the production of a basic model of semiosis that can be accepted by different strands of semiotic studies; and the proposal for a semiotics based on the concept of Umwelt, rather than on the one of sign. There is also a discussion of symbiosis, sustainability of semiotic systems and environmental crisis, and the role of semiotics in this type of contemporary debate.

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2025-01-08

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Viana, A. W. “The Size of the Self, Unresolved Problems in Biosemiotics and the Sense of Science: An Interview With Kalevi Kull”. Intexto, no. 57, Jan. 2025, doi:10.19132/1807-8583.57.142646.

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