Friday 1 November 2013

"Beyond sentience" book chapter finished

Today Jonathan Beever and I have finished the book chapter "Beyond sentience: Biosemiotics as foundation for animal and environmental ethics" (see previous posts) - ca. 8.000 words.

Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Biosemiotics
3. Umwelt Theory
4. Sentience as Morally Relevant
5. Sentience and Umwelt
6. Variants of Biosemiotic Ethics
7. On the Notion of Semiotic Agency
8. Attribution of Moral Status at Various Levels of Biological Organization
9. Conclusion

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