The journal was established by Juri Lotman (as Trudy po Znakovym Sistemam - Shmeiwtikh [ Semeiotiké]) in 1964, thus being internationally the oldest semiotic periodical. Initially a Russian-language series, it became into a central institution of semiotics of culture. Since 1998, it is published as an international reviewed journal on semiotics of culture and nature.
Table of contents
Claus Emmeche, Jesper Hoffmeyer, Kalevi Kull - Editors' comment (11-13)
Biosemiotics
Claus Emmeche - The chicken and the Orphean egg: On the function of meaning and the meaning of function (15-32)
Mihhail Lotman - Umwelt and semiosphere (33-40)
Kaie Kotov - Semiosphere: Chemistry of being (41-55)
Donald Favareau - Beyond self and other: On the neurosemiotic emergence of intersubjectivity (57-100)
Tom Ziemke - On the epigenesis of meaning in robots and organisms: Could a humanoid robot develop a human(oid) umwelt? (101-111)
Soren Brier - Intrasemiotics and cybersemiotics (113-128)
Anton Markos, Fatima Cvrckova - Back to the science of life (129-147)
Stefan Artmann - Three types of semiotic indeterminacy in Monod's philosophy of modern biology (149-161)
Peter Harries-Jones - Where bonds become binds: The necessity for Bateson’s interactive perspective in biosemiotics (163-181)
Andreas Weber - Feeling the signs: Organic experience, intrinsic teleology and the origins of meaning in the biological philosophy of Susanne K. Langer and Hans Jonas (183-200)
Dominique Lestel - Human/animal commmunications, language and evolution (201-212)
Aleksei Turovski - On the zoosemiotics of health and disease (213-219)
Luis Emilio Bruni - Does “quorum sensing” imply a new type of biological information? (221-243)
Alexei Sharov - Pragmatics and biosemiotics (245-258)
Vefa Karatay, Yagmur Denizhan - Semiotics of the "window" (259-270)
Abir U. Igamberdiev - Biological evolution — a semiotically constrained growth of complexity (271-282)
Elling Ulvestad - Biosemiotic knowledge — a prerequisite for valid explorations of extraterrestrial intelligent life (283-292)
Tommi Vehkavaara - Why and how to naturalize semiotic concepts for biosemiotics (293-313)
Andres Luure - Understanding life: Trans-semiotic analogies (315-325)
Kalevi Kull - A sign is not alive — a text is (327-336)
Frederik Stjernfelt - Tractatus Hoffmeyerensis: Biosemiotics as expressed in 22 basic hypotheses (337-345)
Physiosemiotics
Peder Voetmann Christiansen - Habit formation as symmetry breaking in the early universe (347-360)
Edwina Taborsky - Energy and evolutionary semiosis (361-381)
Reviews
Jesper Hoffmeyer - Obituary: Thomas A. Sebeok (383-386)
