Bohr’s Complementarity Framework in Biosemiotics

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12304-016-9281-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12304-016-9281-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Bohr’s Complementarity Framework in Biosemiotics

Original language description

This paper analyses Bohr’s complementarity framework and applies it to biosemiotic studies by illustrating its application to three existing models of living systems: mechanistic (molecular) biology, Barbieri’s version of biosemiotics in terms of his code biology and Markoš’s phenomenological version of hermeneutic biosemiotics. The contribution summarizes both Bohr’s philosophy of science crowned by his idea of complementarity and his conception of the phenomenon of the living. Bohr’s approach to the biological questions evolved – among other things – from the consequences of an epistemological lesson of quantum theory and in light of complementarity of observer as a priori living creature and ex post scientific explanation of the living. In a manifestation of the phenomenon of the living, each model of living system and its description makes accessible – from its own presuppositions, contexts and concepts – some features which are not accessible from the others. Nevertheless, for a general understanding of that phenomenon, incompatible sophisticated approaches are equally necessary. Bohr’s epistemology of complementarity turns out to be a heuristic and methodical framework for testing the extent to which biosemiotics can become one of the special sciences or its potential as a cross-disciplinary branch of study.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Biosemiotics

ISSN

1875-1342

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

33-55

UT code for WoS article

000401722000004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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