International Society for Biosemiotic Studies
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The International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS) is an academic society for the researchers in semiotic biology. The Society was established in 2005. Its official journal is Biosemiotics, published by Springer and launched in 2008.
The purpose of the ISBS is to constitute an organizational framework for the collaboration among scholars dedicated to biosemiotic studies, including the interdisciplinary research of sign processes in living systems, organic codes, and biocommunication
. The ISBS attempts to develop the qualitative research
methods in biology. Among the central focuses is also theoretical semiotics as a basis for theoretical biology.
The ISBS assures the organization of regular meetings on research into the semiotics of nature, as well as promotes publication of scholarly work on the semiotics of life processes. The ISBS organizes the annual international conferences (Gatherings in Biosemiotics) that were started by Copenhagen and Tartu biosemioticians and have taken place regularly already since 2001.
The first President of the ISBS is Jesper Hoffmeyer
(Copenhagen University).
The purpose of the ISBS is to constitute an organizational framework for the collaboration among scholars dedicated to biosemiotic studies, including the interdisciplinary research of sign processes in living systems, organic codes, and biocommunication
Biocommunication (science)
In the study of the biological sciences the general term biocommunication is used to describe more specific types of communication within or between species of plants, animals, fungi and bacteria. Communication means sign-mediated interactions following syntactic, pragmatic and semantic rules....
. The ISBS attempts to develop the qualitative research
Qualitative research
Qualitative research is a method of inquiry employed in many different academic disciplines, traditionally in the social sciences, but also in market research and further contexts. Qualitative researchers aim to gather an in-depth understanding of human behavior and the reasons that govern such...
methods in biology. Among the central focuses is also theoretical semiotics as a basis for theoretical biology.
The ISBS assures the organization of regular meetings on research into the semiotics of nature, as well as promotes publication of scholarly work on the semiotics of life processes. The ISBS organizes the annual international conferences (Gatherings in Biosemiotics) that were started by Copenhagen and Tartu biosemioticians and have taken place regularly already since 2001.
The first President of the ISBS is Jesper Hoffmeyer
Jesper Hoffmeyer
Jesper Hoffmeyer is emeritus professor at the University of Copenhagen Institute of Biology, and is a leading figure in the emerging field of Biosemiotics....
(Copenhagen University).