Biosemiotics 17(2) published; special issue "Umwelt theory and phenomenology" featuring 16 articles; correspondence article published in issue

Biosemiotics´ special issue "Umwelt theory and phenomenology", which is guest-edited by Carlo Brentari and me, has now been published as volume 17, issue 2 of the journal. The special issue features an editorial and 15 original research articles, and spans over pp. 265-585 of volume 17 (321 pp). 

Updated, complete references:

— Brentari, Carlo & Morten Tønnessen (2024). Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Umwelt Theory and Phenomenology’. Editorial. Biosemiotics 17(2): 265–272. Published online July 19th 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-024-09583-w  

— Brentari, Carlo & Morten Tønnessen (guest editors, 2024). “Umwelt theory and phenomenology”. Special issue of Biosemiotics, vol. 17, no. 2 (August 2024). https://link.springer.com/journal/12304/volumes-and-issues/17-2 

The issue also contains 9 more articles which are not part of the special issue. This includes my correspondence text "Understanding subjecthood and experience", first published online in March. Updated and complete reference: 

— Tønnessen, Morten (2024). Understanding subjecthood and experience. Correspondence. Biosemiotics 17(2): 733–735. Published online March 15th 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-024-09557-y  

Read-only link to "Understanding subjecthood and experience"

My correspondence text "Understanding subjecthood and experience", which clarifies my views in response to Jablonka and Ginsburg, is available for reading (only) here.

Commentary to Jablonka and Ginsburg "Understanding subjecthood and experience" published in Biosemiotics

My correspondence text "Understanding subjecthood and experience" has just been published in Biosemiotics. This is a brief commentary written in response to Jablonka & Ginsburg´s 2023 article "Living and experiencing: Response to commentaries", which I felt misrepresented my views.

Reference:

Tønnessen, Morten 2024. Understanding subjecthood and experience. Correspondence. Biosemiotics. Published online March 15th 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-024-09557-y 

#23,5

Today I have had an article writing day, with some 800 words added to my article "Applied Umwelt theory in the context of phenomenological triangulation and descriptive phenomenology", and my letter to the editor "Understanding subjecthood and experience" proof-read. So far this Spring I have logged 23,5 writing days.

Letter to the editor "Understanding subjecthood and experience" accepted by Biosemiotics

I have been notified that my commentary "Understanding subjecthood and experience" has been accepted for publication in Biosemiotics. I have revised it in one round.

See also:

Letter to the editor "Understanding subjecthood and experience" written and submitted to Biosemiotics

#2,5

Today I have had an article writing day, #2,5 this Spring, with some 1.100 words written altogether, mostly on the letter to the editor "Understanding subjecthood and experience" (see previous post), and secondarily on the book chapter "Ecological semiotics".

Letter to the editor "Understanding subjecthood and experience" written and submitted to Biosemiotics

Today I have written and submitted a Letter to the editor - or Correspondence - to Biosemiotics, titled "Understanding subjecthood and experience", in response to Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg´s article "Living and Experiencing: Response to Commentaries", which was recently published in Biosemiotics.

See also:

Jablonka and Ginsburg´s response to my commentary on their target article; with comments

#52,5

Today I have had half a writing day - during my summer vacation - with some 300 words added to my text on experiential and behavioural challenges for the book Mars and the Earthlings, and my chapter "Nosology and semiotics" proof-read. This is writing day #52,5 this year.

To contribute to book "Mars and the Earthlings"

I have agreed to contribute with parts of a co-written chapter for the book Mars and the Earthlings, which is intended for the Springer book series Space and Society. I am tasked with covering experiential and behavioral challenges with settling on Mars.

Conference of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology, 2010

I have submitted the following...

Contribution to the 8th annual conference of
THE NORDIC SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY
(Nordisk Selskab for Fænomenologi)

under the general theme

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NEW ORIENTATIONS: IN PHENOMENOLOGY
to be arranged at Södertörn University College
in Stockholm, April 22-24, 2010

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Individual presentation
by Morten Tønnessen

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Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, University of Tartu
Vindmøllegangen 1, 4631 Kristiansand, NORWAY
Kuu 39-64, 50 104 Tartu, ESTONIA
Academic homepage: http://utopianrealism.blogspot.com/

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Suggested title:
Semiotics of Being and Uexküllian Phenomenology
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German-Baltic biologist Jakob von Uexküll (1864-1944) did not regard himself as a phenomenologist. Neither did he conceive of himself as a semiotician. Nevertheless, his Umwelt terminology has of late been utilized and further developed within the framework of semiotics and various other disciplines - and, as I will argue, essential points in his work can fruitfully be taken to represent a distinctive Uexküllian phenomenology, characterized not least by an assumption of the (in the realm of life) universal existence of a genuine first person perspective, i.e., of experienced worlds.

In the course of the presentation, I will briefly relate Uexküllian phenomenology to
a) Immanuel Kant (1724-1804),
b) the eco-existentialism of Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899-1990)
c) eco-phenomenology (including David Abram and Ted Toadvine),
d) and semiotics of nature (biosemiotics, ecosemiotics, zoosemiotics)