Course Schedule

Monday August 12
Tuesday August 13
Wednesday August 14
Thursday August 15
Friday August 16

 

Monday August 12

9.00-10.30:

Short presentation of the course and its idea.
Five minutes presentation about where you come from personally, intellectually and your project?

10.30-11.00:

Coffee & Questions

11.00-12.15:

Søren Brier (SB) 1:

Why is objective information not enough to build a transdisciplinary theory of information, cognition and communication?
The paradigmatic problem of physicalism and informationalism. Cybersemiotics star.

12.15-13.00:

Lunch

13.00-13.45:

I. Student presentation and discussion of project and its methodological problems.

13.45-14.45:

SB 2: The phenomenological-semiotic-intersubjective point of departure for transdisciplinarity. The Cybersemiotics star.

14.45-15.15

Coffee & Questions

15.15-16. 00:

II. Student presentation and discussion of project its methodological problems.

16.00-17.00:

Torkild Thellefsen: C.S. Peirce’s theory of information.

18.00:

We eat a buffet dinner together with meat, fish and pure vegetarian dishes right after the course at CBS.

Tuesday August 13

9.00-10.00:

SB 3: Second order cybernetics from Bateson to von Foerster and Spencer Brown.

10.00-10.30:

Coffee & Questions

10.30-11.30:

Claus Emmeche: The research political problems of inter- and transdisciplinarity.

11.30-12.15:

III. Student presentation and discussion of project and its methodological problems.

12.15-13.00:

Lunch

13.00-14.45:

SB 4: Autopoiesis from Maturana to Luhmann. What’s the paradigmatic idea?

14.45-15.15

Coffee & Questions

15.15-16. 00:

IV. Student presentation and discussion of project and its methodological problems.

16.00-17.00:

SB 5: Ethology and the problem of a scientific theory of the animal mind and its evolution.

Wednesday August 14

9.00-10.00:

SB 7: The ideas of the semiotic paradigms: Saussurian and Peircean.

10.00-11.00:

SB 8: Embodiment, consciousness and evolution.

11.00-11.30:

Coffee & Questions

11.30-12.15:

V. Student presentation and discussion of project and its methodological problems.

12.15-13.00:

Lunch

13.00-14.00:

Frederik Stjernfelt: C. S. Peirce’s view of inter- and transdisciplinarity.

14.00-14:30:

Coffee & Questions

14.30-15:15:

VI. Student presentation and discussion of project and its methodological problems.

15.15-16.15:

SB 9: Peircean synechism, tychism, agapism and hyloism and how it leads to pragmaticism.

16:15-17:00:

VII. Student presentation and discussion of project and its methodological problems.

Thursday August 15

9.00-10.15:

SB 10: The development of the biosemiotic idea. Uexkull, Sebeok, Hoffmeyer.

10.15-10.45:

Coffee & Questions

10.45-11.30:

VIII. Student presentation and discussion of project and its methodological problems.

11.30-12.15:

IX. Student presentation and discussion of project and its methodological problems.

12.15-13.00:

Lunch

13.00-14.30:

Jesper Hoffmeyer: Biosemiotics as a bridge between science and humanities.

14.30-15:00:

Coffee & Questions

15.00-15.45:

X. Student presentation and discussion of project and its methodological problems.

15:45-17:00:

SB 11: The importance of ontological and metaphysical deliberations.

Friday August 16

9.00-10.00:

SB 12: Science, semiotics and the religious dimension of meaning and rationality.

10.00-10.45:

XI. Student presentation and discussion of project and its methodological problems.

10.45-11.15:

Coffee & Questions

11.15-12.15:

XII. Student presentation and discussion of project and its methodological problems.

12.15-13.00:

Lunch

13.00-14.30:

Sara Cannizaro: Biosemiotics as Systems Theory: an Investigation into Biosemiotics as the Grounding for a New Form of Cultural Analysis.

14.30-15:00:

Coffee & Questions

15.00-16.00:

Collective discussion with Cannizaro and Brier of the transdisciplinary knowledge and problems dealt with so far by participants.

16:00-17:00:

Evaluation and suggestions for improvements plus suggestions for follow up courses.