Special issue on biosemiotic ethics freely available online

Our special issue of Zeitschrift für Semiotik on biosemiotic ethics is now freely available online, downloadable in PDF format.

Brief presentation:

This issue presents the rapidly growing field of biosemiotic ethics. In the past two decades, biosemioticians have began to tease out the ethical implications of biosemiotics. The foundational argument is that if semiosis is a morally-relevant capacity, and if all living systems are semiotic, then biosemiosis can serve as the basis for justifying the attribution of moral status to humans, to animals and plants, and even to ecosystems. Biosemiotic ethics opens the road towards a perspective that connects ecological thinking with ethical perspectives.

All articles are licensed under the CC-BY 4.0 International license.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14464/zsem.v37i3-4

I contribute as an author to these texts:
Introducing biosemiotic ethics
Justifying moral standing by biosemiotic particularism
Interview on biosemiotic ethics with Wendy Wheeler
A world of signs (in memory of John Deely)