Claus Emmeche
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Claus Emmeche (born 1956) is a Danish theoretical biologist and philosopher, one of founders of contemporary biosemiotics.Favareau, D. 2008. [https://www.academia.edu/20369648/The_IASS_Roundtable_discussion_on_biosemiotics_A_discussion_with_some_founders_of_the_field The IASS roundtable on biosemiotics: A discussion with some founders of the field]. The American Journal of Semiotics 24(1/3): 1–21.Favareau, D. (ed.) 2010. Essential Readings in Biosemiotics. Springer, p. 629. He is associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, and is head of the Center for the Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies at the Faculty of Science (CPNSS, hosted by the Niels Bohr Institute).
His research interests are in philosophy of science, especially philosophy of biology, theoretical biology (especially morphogenesis and evolution, developmental systems, complex systems), artificial life, biosemiotics, and other areas within philosophy. He has made pioneering studies in the field of semiotics of friendship.
Activism
Claus Emmeche was one of the organizers of a petition directed at Helge Sander's education reforms, which the petition claimed undermined academic freedom by granting a broad majority of the management of universities to people from outside the academic community. As of August, 2008, 35% of Danish academics had signed the petition.[http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20080828144406821&mode=print Ard Jongsma, "DENMARK: Academics sign up to protest", University World News, No. 0042, 31 Aug. 2008.] By November, this had risen to about 50%.{{cite web | url=http://www.dm.dk/NyhederOgDebat/Nyhedsarkiv/2008/November/6488Underskrifter.aspx | title=6488 UNDERSKRIFTER FOR EN NY UNIVERSITETSLOV OVERDRAGET | date=Nov 21, 2008 | accessdate=2008-12-23 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230134844/http://www.dm.dk/NyhederOgDebat/Nyhedsarkiv/2008/November/6488Underskrifter.aspx | archive-date=December 30, 2010 | url-status=dead }}
Notable works
Claus Emmeche has authored or co-authored at least 31 works in science and philosophy in English. Some of his most notable English works include:
- The Garden in the Machine: The Emerging Science of Artificial Life, Princeton University Press, ({{ISBN|0691029032}})
- Downward Causation: Minds, Bodies and Matter by Peter Bogh Andersen, Claus Emmeche, Niels Ole Finnemann, and Peder Voetmann Christiansen. Princeton University Press, ({{ISBN|0691029032}}) (1996)
- Emmeche, Claus; Kull, Kalevi; Stjernfelt, Frederik 2002. [https://www.academia.edu/220133/Reading_Hoffmeyer_Rethinking_Biology Reading Hoffmeyer, Rethinking Biology]. [Tartu Semiotics Library 3.] Tartu: Tartu University Press.
- Charbel Niño El-Hani, João Queiroz, Claus Emmeche 2009. Genes, information, and semiosis. [Tartu Semiotics Library 8.] Tartu: Tartu University Press.
- [https://www.academia.edu/727564/Towards_a_Semiotic_Biology_Life_is_the_Action_of_Signs Towards a Semiotic Biology: Life is the Action of Signs], ed. by Claus Emmeche, and Kalevi Kull. London: Imperial College Press. (2011) [https://web.archive.org/web/20120415052620/http://www.icpress.co.uk/lifesci/p771.html See]
In Danish, Emmeche has authored or co-authored at least 5 books, 25 articles, and over 47 other works.
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External links
- [https://www.ind.ku.dk/english/staff-auto-list/?pure=en/persons/141641 Claus Emmeche's Home Page]
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