Links to Sites about Biosemiotics
Biosemiotics
Theoretical Biology (Morphogenesis and Evolution, Developmental
Systems, Complex Systems)
- A virtual library maintained by the Society for
Developmental Biology.
- Bioinformatics and the Theory of Molecular Machines (by Tom Schneider et
al.. On this site also stuff on Molecular Computation; Information
theory in Molecular Biology, etc.).
- IAS/Part City Mathematics Institure (PCMI - 2005),
June 26 - July 16, 2005: Summer school on Mathematical Biology.
- The
Santa Fe Institute for Interdisciplinary Study
- The European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology -
ECMTB05
(Dresden University of Technology, Germany, July 18-22, 2005).
- Google Directory's Theoretical Biology page.
- Complex biosystems can be studied by nonlinear modeling
techniques; see, e.g., the Encyclopedia
of Nonlinear Science edited by Alwyn Scott.
- See the The San Sebastian Group of philosophy of biology
and theoretical biology, and the Animal Cognition Group, University of Vienna.
- Or take a look at the work of Stuart
A. Kauffman, Brian Goodwin, and Lynn Margulis.
- Journals: Journal of Theoretical Biology, BioSystems, and others,
see the list with links here.
- Dansk
Selskab for Teoretisk Biologi (home page for a Danish Society for
Theoretical Biology).
Philosophy of Biology and General Philosophy of Science
Cognitive Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, and Consciousness
Studies
Robotics, Autonomous Agents and Artificial Life
Anthroposemiotics, Ethnomethodolgy and Cultural Cognition
Philosophy of Nature, Ontology, Metaphysics, Theories of World
Pictures
- Many possible links could be given, suggestions are welcome. Stephen C. Pepper (1891-1972) represents a unique
attempt to do systematic study of "world hypotheses".
- A Process Philosophy page, organized by Johanna
Seibt.
- Check out the Radical Constructivism web site.
- In the evolution/creationism debate talkorigins is
a major pro-evolution source; links to many (also pro-)creationism
sites.
- H-Nilas,
for people interested in relationships between human beings and Nature
through the mediation of stories, poems, legends, and pictures; totemic
literature.
Science Studies and Links to Web Sites for the History, Philosophy
and Social Studies Of Science
- Online guide for HPSTM internet/web users at the
University of Leeds. Do you or your students need a free
user-friendly guide to virtual resources in history & philosophy of
science, technology and medicine? On line tutorial prepared by James
Sumner.
- Konrad Lorenz
Institut für Evolutions und Kognitionsforschung. The KLI is
an institution which fosters research in Theoretical Biology, including
history and philosophy of modern biology, with an emphasis on the
evolutionary and cognitive sciences. An aim of KLI is to generate
crossdisciplinary theoretical models that can guide future applied
research and political decision making.
- Program on Science, Technology and Society. North
Carolina State University, including 160 science, technology, and
society information sources, STS websites, STS course materials,
programs, etc. This site will soon be closed, however, its links have
been incorporated into a larger directory of websites at ECHO, see the
following site.
- ECHO:
Exploring and Collecting History Online - Science and Technology.
This site is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and operated by
the Center for New Media History at George Mason University. In
addition to funding and training historians to collect and preserve the
recent history of science and technology, this site includes one of the
world's largest on-line directories of the history of science,
technology and medicine.
- Virginia
Tech Science and Technology Studies. M.S. and Ph.D. degree
programs, descriptions of courses; links, etc.
- The IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology
(SSIT). Including announcements, IEEE Info, WWW Links, North
Carolina State ressources.
- Minnesota
Center for Philosophy of Science. The University of Minnesota
houses the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science (MCPS) - the
oldest center for philosophy of science in the world.
- INTERNET
WORLDWIDE GUIDE TO SCIENCE STUDIES PROGRAMMES. The "black marble
page" including links, announcements [call for papers, grants, jobs],
resources, etc.
- Steve Fuller and social epistemology. Steve Fuller
(social epistemology, normative study of knowledge systems); with some
texts, e.g., science wars articles, etc.
- The
Department of Science & Technology Studies at University College
London. A new web site with STS links etc.
- The Loka Institute.
The Loka Institute is a non-profit research and advocacy organization
concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions
of science and technology.
- The
HOPOS home page (A History of Philosophy of Science site). HOPOS is
an informal, international working group of scholars who share an
interest in promoting serious, scholarly research on the history of the
philosophy of science and related topics in the history of the natural
and social sciences, logic, philosophy, and mathematics). With mailing
list, other resources)
- PhilSci
Archive. PhilSci Archive, an electronic archive for preprints in
the philosophy of science, sponsored by the Philosophy of Science
Association. It is offered as a free service to the philosophy of
science community. The goal of the Archive is to promote communication
in the field by the rapid dissemination of new work. A parallel to the
physicists' enormous LANL archive (http://xxx.lanl.gov/).
- www.archive.org
The Internet Archive is a public nonprofit that was founded to build an
"Internet library," with the purpose of offering permanent access for
researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that
exist in digital format. Founded in 1996, the Archive has been
receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999,
the organization started to grow to build more well-rounded collections.
- Social
Criticism Review. Selected readings on modern society and its ills.
Focus on alienation between man, nature, and a dysfunctional
scientific-technical complex. Forum for ideas that go against the
current. SCR offers online readings on the crisis of modernity:
progress, science for sale, megatechnology, third world debt,
counterproductive economy, globalization, corporate rule,
anti-democratic media, advertising consumerism, environmental
destruction, genetic manipulation, sustainable development, human
rights, ethics, responsibility, citizenship, community building, arms
race, war on terrorism, resurgent totalitarianism, and much more.
- SLS -
Society for Literature and Science and now, "and the Arts" (SLSA).
The Society for Literature and Science welcomes colleagues in the
sciences, engineering, technology, computer science, medicine, the
social sciences, the humanities, the arts, and independent scholars and
artists. SLS members share an interest in problems of science and
representation, and in the cultural and social dimensions of science,
technology, and medicine.
- The Skeptics's
Dictionary. "Featuring nearly 400 definitions, arguments, and
essays on occult topics ranging from acupuncture to zombies, The
Skeptic's Dictionary is a lively, commonsense trove of detailed
information on all things supernatural, paranormal, and
pseudoscientific." -- (Science Studies scholars may be skeptical about
this link, but why not see "activist skepticism" as a distinct approach
to science studies?)
Other Online Resources
The text on this page was graciously provided by Claus Emmeche.