Donald Favareau
Biographic Data
| ID | 1356596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald Favareau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald |
| FAMILY NAME | Favareau |
| SIGNATURE | FAVAREAU D |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3457-3646 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Towards a Biosemiotic Theoretical Biology
An edited volume bringing together 25 of today’s most forward-thinking biologists and philosophers on sign processes and meaning-making in organisms. Theoretical biology is concerned with providing science with explanatory frameworks within which to fit its findings. The relatively newer field of Biosemiotics is the study of sign processes within life processes. In the tradition of the field-changing four-volume essay collection Towards a Theoret…
Introducing Paul Cobley
Within the discipline of semiotics, written text remains the primary mode of communication and analysis, despite the fact that, as all good semioticians know, signs occur in all modalities – which is why we think of artists and musicians, no less than novelists and poets, as applied semioticians par excellence. In 1997, Paul Cobley and Litza Jansz combined the semiotic tools of words and drawings to produce what is undoubtedly one of the most suc…
Transcending the mid-most target
Having been intimately aligned with the research agenda of biosemiotics since his colleague Thomas Sebeok first started using the term in 1992, Paul Cobley has consistently argued against the idea that the primary aim of biosemiotics is to make an intervention in the discourse and epistemology of the life sciences. Instead, he argues for the potential of a biosemiotically informed humanities for refashioning the ways in which we humans come to un…
Semiotic Square
Biosemiotics
Semiotic Constraints
A more developed sign
For more than 40 years, Jesper Hoffmeyer has been committed to the idea of developing ?a semiotics of nature, or biosemiotics as he chose to call this effort, that could intelligibly explain how all the phenomena of inherent meaning and signification in living nature ? from the lowest level of sign processes in unicellular organisms to the cognitive and social behavior of animals ? can emerge from a universe that was not so organized and meaningf…
Iconic, Indexical, and Symbolic Understanding
10.1177/0003065108322687
Understanding natural constructivism
10.1515/SEMI.2008.108
Founding a world biosemiotics institution
Founding a world biosemiotics institution: The International Society for Biosemiotic Studies
Beyond self and other
The explosive growth over the last two decades of neuroscience, cognitive science, and “consciousness studies” as generally conceived, remains as yet unaccompanied by a corresponding development in the establishment of an explicitly semiotic understanding of how the relations of sign exchange at the neuronal level function in the larger network of psychologically accessible sign exchange. This article attempts a preliminary foray into the establi…
The Symbolic Species
In 1 866, the recently formed Societe Linguistique de Paris passed an official resolution banning the presentation of any further papers regarding the origins of human language.The nature of the inquiry itself, it was felt, lacked even the possibility of scientific certainty, and all work pertaining to it was likewise dis- missed on the grounds of being empirically irresolvable, incorrigibly speculative, and unproductively divisive.Terrence W. De…
A more developed sign
For more than 40 years, Jesper Hoffmeyer has been committed to the idea of developing ?a semiotics of nature, or biosemiotics as he chose to call this effort, that could intelligibly explain how all the phenomena of inherent meaning and signification in living nature ? from the lowest level of sign processes in unicellular organisms to the cognitive and social behavior of animals ? can emerge from a universe that was not so organized and meaningf…
Beyond self and other
The explosive growth over the last two decades of neuroscience, cognitive science, and “consciousness studies” as generally conceived, remains as yet unaccompanied by a corresponding development in the establishment of an explicitly semiotic understanding of how the relations of sign exchange at the neuronal level function in the larger network of psychologically accessible sign exchange. This article attempts a preliminary foray into the establi…
Founding a world biosemiotics institution
Founding a world biosemiotics institution: The International Society for Biosemiotic Studies
The Symbolic Species
In 1 866, the recently formed Societe Linguistique de Paris passed an official resolution banning the presentation of any further papers regarding the origins of human language.The nature of the inquiry itself, it was felt, lacked even the possibility of scientific certainty, and all work pertaining to it was likewise dis- missed on the grounds of being empirically irresolvable, incorrigibly speculative, and unproductively divisive.Terrence W. De…
Beyond self and other
The explosive growth over the last two decades of neuroscience, cognitive science, and “consciousness studies” as generally conceived, remains as yet unaccompanied by a corresponding development in the establishment of an explicitly semiotic understanding of how the relations of sign exchange at the neuronal level function in the larger network of psychologically accessible sign exchange. This article attempts a preliminary foray into the establi…
Founding a world biosemiotics institution
Founding a world biosemiotics institution: The International Society for Biosemiotic Studies
Iconic, Indexical, and Symbolic Understanding
10.1177/0003065108322687
Understanding natural constructivism
10.1515/SEMI.2008.108
A more developed sign
For more than 40 years, Jesper Hoffmeyer has been committed to the idea of developing ?a semiotics of nature, or biosemiotics as he chose to call this effort, that could intelligibly explain how all the phenomena of inherent meaning and signification in living nature ? from the lowest level of sign processes in unicellular organisms to the cognitive and social behavior of animals ? can emerge from a universe that was not so organized and meaningf…
Semiotic Square
Biosemiotics
Semiotic Constraints
Introducing Paul Cobley
Within the discipline of semiotics, written text remains the primary mode of communication and analysis, despite the fact that, as all good semioticians know, signs occur in all modalities – which is why we think of artists and musicians, no less than novelists and poets, as applied semioticians par excellence. In 1997, Paul Cobley and Litza Jansz combined the semiotic tools of words and drawings to produce what is undoubtedly one of the most suc…
Transcending the mid-most target
Having been intimately aligned with the research agenda of biosemiotics since his colleague Thomas Sebeok first started using the term in 1992, Paul Cobley has consistently argued against the idea that the primary aim of biosemiotics is to make an intervention in the discourse and epistemology of the life sciences. Instead, he argues for the potential of a biosemiotically informed humanities for refashioning the ways in which we humans come to un…
Towards a Biosemiotic Theoretical Biology
An edited volume bringing together 25 of today’s most forward-thinking biologists and philosophers on sign processes and meaning-making in organisms. Theoretical biology is concerned with providing science with explanatory frameworks within which to fit its findings. The relatively newer field of Biosemiotics is the study of sign processes within life processes. In the tradition of the field-changing four-volume essay collection Towards a Theoret…
Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Semiotics (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Biosemiotics (4 works) · Origins and Evolution of Life (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Cognitive science (3 works) · Language and cultural evolution (3 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (3 works)