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

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

16.00-17.00:

Jesper Hoffmeyer: Biosemiotics as a bridge between science and humanities

18.00:

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

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:

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

11.30-12.15:

III. Student presentation

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

16.00-17.00:

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

9.00-10.00:

SB 6: Phenomenology and Phaneroscopy.

10.00-10.30:

Coffee & Questions

10.30-11.15:

V. Student presentation

11.15-12.15:

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

12.15-13.00:

Lunch

13.00-14.00:

Stephen Cowley:  A discussion of possible transdisciplinary paradigms of extended mind.

14.00-14:30:

Coffee & Questions

14.30-15:15:

VI. Student presentation

15.15-16.30:

SB 8: Embodiment, consciousness and evolution.

16.30-17.00:

Questions and Summing up

9.00-10.15:

SB 9: The development of the biosemiotic idea. Uexkull, Sebeok, Hoffmeyer.

10.15-10.45:

Coffee & Questions

10.45-11.30:

VII. Student presentation

11.30-12.15:

VIII. Student presentation

12.15-13.00:

Lunch

13.00-14.00:

Frederik Stjernfelt: C. S. Peirce’s view of the organization of knowledge

14.00-14.30:

Coffee & Questions

14.30-16.15:

SB 10: Peircean synechism and scholastic realism: Signs and universals.

16.15-17.00:

Questions and Discussion

9.00-10.00:

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

10.00-10.30:

Coffee & Questions

10.30-11.15:

IX. Student presentation

11.15-12.15:

SB 11: Peirce’s view on science, semiotics and the religious dimension of meaning and love.

12.15-13.00:

Lunch

13.00-13.45:

X. Student presentation

13.45-14.45:

Kathrine Elizabeth Lorena Johansson: Interdisciplinarity, Technology, Art and Consciousness

14.45-15.15:

Coffee & Questions

15.15-16.15:

SB 12: Collective discussion on the transdisciplinary knowledge and problems dealt with so far by participants. Summing up.

16.15-17.00:

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