Søren Brier
Professor with special responsibilities
Department of Management, Society and Communication
Copenhagen Business Academy
Denmark
Biography
"I am an interdisciplinary researcher that has moved from an MA in biology (ecology and behavioral sciences) over a gold medal thesis in psychology (philosophy of ethology) both Copenhagen. U. through a PhD in philosophy of information sciences (Roskilde U.) after 10 year teaching at the Royal School of Library and Information science to a Habilitat in Cybersemiotics combining the natural, life, social and technical sciences with the humanities though an integration of a Peircean biosemiotic and Luhmann's autopoietic system science into a transdisciplinary framework (Copenhagen Business School). Cybersemiotics is now described in several international encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks in linguistics, semiotics, Informations science, cybernetics and system science. I created an interdisciplinary journal in the area called ""Cybernetics & Human Knowing"" in 1992 and have been editor in chief ever since."
Research Interest
"Semiotics of information, cognitive, life and communication sciences Interdisciplinarity. transdisciplinarity and methodology Philosophy of the natural, life, social, information, cognitive, communication and system sciences and humanities Second order cybernetics, systems and autopoiesis theory Cybersemiotics and biosemiotics"
Publications
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"Søren Brier / Biosemiotics : The Consequences of the Foundational Nature of Autopoisemiotic Agency. Paper presented at 13th IASS-AIS World Congress of Semiotics IASS, 2017 Paper"
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"Søren Brier / Biosemiotic Anti-humanism : Why Culture Is an Extension of Biology and a Self-organizing System of Meaning. In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2017, p. 93-97 Book review"
