生物符号学作为生物学的另一种范式——生物符号学史的理性建构（英文）

Biosemiotics as an Alternative Paradigm for Biology:A Rational Reconstruction of the History of Biosemiotics

生物符号学致力于研究自然中的符号过程、意义、信息与交流。生物符号学作为范式转换,将生命过程看作是意义产生过程、信息过程,而不仅仅是机械过程。根据生物符号学,生命过程在符号框架内可以被丰富地解释。生物符号学产生于达尔文生物学的两个反常。这两个反常可能会导致生物当前的主流范式走向危机。面对这个危机,生物符号学提出了符号学的回应。生物符号学利用皮尔斯符号学通过重新定义生物学的事实、问题与方法,重新概念化了生物学。一些迹象表明,生物符号学已经进入了常规科学的阶段。然而,要想进一步发展,它必须面对内部、外部的挑战。

Biosemiotics is dedicated to studying semiosis, meaning, information and communication in nature. As a paradigm shift, it treats life processes as meaning-making informational processes rather than mechanical ones. It believes that life processes can be fruitfully explained within semiotic framework. It arose from two anomalies implied by neo-Darwinian biology. The anomalies may lead the current predominant paradigm of biology to crisis. Biosemiotics proposed a semiotic response to the crisis. With Peircean semiotics, biosemiotics re-conceptualises biology through redefining facts, problems and methods of biology. There are indications that biosemiotics has turned to the phase of normal science. However, it must overcome both internal and external challenges to prosper further.