The Symbolic Species Evolved

<p>Introduction - searching the missing links; Frederik Stjernfelt, Theresa Schilhab.- Part I: The Biosemiotic Connection.- 1. Towards a semiotic cognitive science: why neither the phenomenological nor computational approaches are adequate; Terrence Deacon.- 2. The Symbolic Species hypothesis revisited; Frederik Stjernfelt.- 3. Peirce and Deacon on meaning and the evolution of language; Ahti-Veikko J. Pietarinen.-  4. Semiosis beyond signs. On a two or three missing links on the way to human beings; Göran Sonesson.- Part II: The Prehistoric and Comparative Connection.- 5. The natural history of intentionality. A biosemiotic approach; Jesper Hoffmeyer.- 6. The evolution of learning to communicate: Avian model for the missing link; Irene M. Pepperberg.- 7. From parsing actions to understanding intentions; Richard W. Byrne.- 8. New non-Linnaean, neo-cladistic nomenclature and classification conventions exemplified by recent and fossil hominids; Niels Bonde.- 9. ­­­­The tripod effect: Coevolution of cooperation, cognition and communication; Peter Gärdenfors et al.- Part III: The Cognitive and Anthropological Connection.- 10. Language as a repository of tacit knowledge; Harry Collins.- 11. Levels of immersion and embodiment; Theresa Schilhab.- 12. Emerging symbols; Stefan Leijnen.- 13. Gender in innovative techno fantasies; Cathrine Hasse.- Epilogue.- 14. New perspectives; Terrence Deacon.- Index. </p>