Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Grounding figures and figuring grounds in semiotic modeling / Anderson, Myrdene / Μerrell, Floyd -- Part A. Issues of culture -- Structural differences in intentional action between humans and chimpanzees – and their implications for theories of handedness and bipedalism / Reynolds, Peter C. -- ‘Venuses’, turtles, and other hand-held cosmic models / Hagens, Bethe -- Toys in engineering history: The role of scale models and miniaturization techniques / Foley, Vernard -- Maps, territories and mandalas: The spirit of place / Painter, An -- Notational systems: The interaction of model and content / Ramadhyani, Rachel B. -- Part Β. Issues for science -- Code-duality and the semiotics of nature / Hoffmeyer, Jesper / Emmeche, Claus -- The use and misuse of metaphor in biology: Studies of the semantics of molecular evolution / Levinthal, Mark -- Kali theory / Salthe, Stanley Ν. -- The conduct of artificial life: A quest for artificial death? / Anderson, Myrdene -- Worlds and signs: Explicate and implicate order / Koch, Walter A. -- Model, world, semiotic reality / Merrell, Floyd -- Semiotics and control systems: Toward a non-classical model of communication / Beaugrande, Robert de -- Part C. Issues in language and literature -- In what sense is language a 'primary modeling system'? / Sebeok, Thomas A. -- On the semiotic status of written language / Pazukhin, Rostislav -- (Re)modeling the letter: Literacy and literature at the intersection of semiotics and literary studies / Mignolo, Walter D. -- The logic of autobiography / Baer, Eugen -- A semiotic model of conjecture / Bunn, James H. -- Part D. Issues of semiosis -- A Peircean classification of models / Houser, Nathan -- Diagrammatic thinking and the portraiture of thought / Spinks, C. W. -- Peirce, iconicity, and the geometry of logic / Zellweger, Shea -- ‘A Sign of itself’ / Ryan, Paul -- Modeling anthroposemiosis / Deely, John -- Afterword -- Filling and emptying figures and grounds in art, craft, and science / Anderson, Myrdene / Μerrell, Floyd -- List of contributors -- Index -- Backmatterweiterlesen