Principal research interests 

Philosophy of science and technology
Historical epistemology of structural sciences such as information theory, semiotics, decision theory, cybernetics, computer science, artificial life, and artificial intelligence

Philosophy of information and computing
Fundamental issues in the transmission, processing, and storage of information

Philosophy of biology
Synthesising artificial life and biosemiotics into a theory of living systems

Anthropology and Philosophy of culture
Structuralism and pragmatism as general theories of subjectivity

Artificial Life as a Structural Science,
in: Philosophia naturalis, Vol. 40, No. 2 (2003), pp. 183-205.

IKAR/OS [with Florian Röhrbein and Martin C. Hirsch],
in: Bernhard Rumpe and Wolfgang Hesse (eds.), Modellierung 2004. Proceedings zur Tagung 23.-26.03.2004 in Marburg/Deutschland, Bonn 2004 (Lecture Notes in Informatics – Proceedings Vol. P-45), pp. 327-328.  
Online at The Electronic Library of Mathematics

Towards a Behavioural Ecology of Possible Life. The Interaction between Man and Computer as an Infinite Game,
in: Harald Schaub, Frank Detje, Ulrike Brüggemann (eds.), The Logic of Artificial Life. Abstracting and Synthesizing the Principles of Living Systems. Proceedings of the Sixth German Workshop on Artificial Life, Berlin and Amsterdam 2004, pp. 1-7.
Online (partially) at Google Book Search

Four Principles of Evolutionary Pragmatics in Jacob's Philosophy of Modern Biology,
in: Axiomathes, Vol. 14, No. 4 (2004), pp. 381-395.
Online at SpringerLink

Using Semiotics in Artificial Life,
in: Joachim Schult (ed.), Biosemiotik. Praktische Anwendung und Konsequenzen für die Einzelwissenschaften, Berlin 2004 (Studien zur Theorie der Biologie Vol. 6), pp. 121-131.

Hamiltons Leben. Autobiographisches Sein und evolutionstheoretisches Sollen in der populationsgenetischen Klinik,
in: Bettina von Jagow and Florian Steger (eds.), Repräsentationen. Medizin und Ethik in Literatur und Kunst der Moderne, Heidelberg 2004 (Beiträge zur neueren Literaturgeschichte Vol. 207), pp. 141-157.

Eugenik; Fitness; Gen/Genom/Genetik; Gentechnik; Leben; Mechanismus; Vitalismus,
in: Bettina von Jagow and Florian Steger (eds.), Literatur und Medizin. Ein Lexikon, Göttingen 2005, col. 217-221; col. 244-249; col. 276-280; col. 280-284; col. 474-478; col. 512-516; col. 838-842.

Complexity; Evolution, Molecular; Language and Biology; Life, Characteristics of; Life, Origin of; Neo-Darwinism, Origin of; Selection, Natural,
in: H. James Birx (ed.), Encyclopedia of Anthropology, Thousand Oaks/CA, London, New Delhi 2005, vol. 2, pp. 539-540; vol. 2, pp. 895-897; vol. 4, pp. 1405-1407; vol. 4, pp. 1471-1473; vol. 4, pp. 1474-1478; vol. 4, pp. 1727-1732; vol. 5, pp. 2069-2070.

Biosemiotics as a Structural Science. Between the Forms of Life and the Life of Forms,
in: Journal of Biosemiotics, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2005), pp. 183-209. Reprinted in: Marcello Barbieri (ed.), Biosemiotics. Information, Codes, and Signs in Living Systems, New York 2007, pp. 179-205.
Online (partially) at Google Book Search

Artificial? Life? A Kind of Preface to Any Possible Exploration in the Complexity of Life-as-It-Could-Be [with Peter Dittrich],
in: Stefan Artmann and Peter Dittrich (eds.), Explorations in the Complexity of Possible Life. Abstracting and Synthesizing the Principles of Living Systems. Proceedings of the Seventh German Workshop on Artificial Life, July 26-28, 2006, Jena, Germany, European Office of Aerospace Research and Development / US Air Force Technical Report No. EOARD-CSP-06-5017 (also published in book form Berlin and Amsterdam 2006), pp. 1-5.
Online at DTIC

Some Problems in Organic Coding Theory,
in: Rudolf Ahlswede, Lars Bäumer, Ning Cai, Harout Aydinian, Vladimir Blinovsky, Christian Deppe, and Haik Mashurian (eds.), General Theory of Information Transfer and Combinatorics, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 2006 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 4123), pp. 1069-1072.
Online at SpringerLink

Computing Codes versus Interpreting Life. Two Alternative Ways of Synthesizing Biological Knowledge through Semiotics,
in: Marcello Barbieri (ed.), Introduction to Biosemiotics. The New Biological Synthesis, Dordrecht 2007 (hardcover) and 2008 (softcover), pp. 209-233.
Online at SpringerLink and Google Book Search

Versionen mathematischer Existenz,
in: Christoph Weismüller (ed.), Fragen nach der Mathematik, Düsseldorf 2007 (Psychoanalyse und Philosophie), pp. 87-112.

Divergence versus Convergence of Intelligent Systems. Contrasting Artificial Intelligence with Cognitive Psychology,
in: Joachim Hertzberg, Michael Beetz, and Roman Englert (eds.), KI 2007. Advances in Artificial Intelligence. 30th Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2007, Osnabrück, Germany, September 10-13, 2007. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 2007 (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Vol. 4667), pp. 431-434.
Online at SpringerLink

Homo ludens machinator. Zum Tode von Stanislaw Lem,
in: Jahrbuch Literatur und Medizin, Vol. 1 (2007), pp. 129-135.

Biological Information,
in: Sahotra Sarkar and Anya Plutynski (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology, Malden/MA, Oxford, Victoria 2008 (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy Vol. 39), pp. 22-39.
Online at Wiley InterScience

Information-Theoretic Aspects of Control in a Bio-Hybrid Robot Device [with Soichiro Tsuda and Klaus-Peter Zauner],
in: Seth Bullock, Jason Noble, Richard Watson, and Mark A. Bedau (eds.), Artificial Life XI. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Cambridge/MA and London 2008, pp. 33-40.
Online at EPrints Repository of School of Electronics and Computer Science / University of Southampton

Organic Problem Solving. Biology, Decision Theory, and the Physical Symbol System Hypothesis,
in: The American Journal of Semiotics, Vol. 24, Nos. 1-3 (2008), pp. 95-105.
Online at HighBeam Research

Agents provocateurs. Für eine transaktionale Ethik migrierender Programme,
in: Lebenswelt und Wissenschaft. XXI. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie. Universität Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen, 15. bis 19. September 2008. Sektionsbeiträge, CD-ROM 2008, file 07-Artmann.pdf.
Online at Lebenswelt und Wissenschaft - XXI. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie

Vita brevis ars longa. Zum achtzigsten Geburtstag von Herbert W. Franke,
in: Jahrbuch Literatur und Medizin, Vol. 2 (2008), pp. 117-122.

Entropy; Information; Logical Depth; Maxwell's Demon; Poincaré, Henri; Prigogine, Ilya; Structuralism; Time and Computers,
in: H. James Birx (ed.), Encyclopedia of Time. Science, Philosophy, Theology, and Culture, Thousand Oaks/CA, London, New Delhi, Singapore, and Washington DC 2009, vol. 1, pp. 422-424; vol. 2, pp. 713-717; vol. 2. pp. 788-789; vol. 2, pp. 828-830; vol. 2, pp. 1023-1024; vol. 2, pp. 1051-1052; vol. 3, pp. 1205-1207; vol. 3, pp. 1333-1334.

Basic Semiosis as Code-Based Control,
in: Biosemiotics, Vol. 2 (2009), pp. 31-38.
Online at SpringerLink

The Phi-Bot. A Robot Controlled by a Slime Mould [with Soichiro Tsuda and Klaus-Peter Zauner],
in: Andrew Adamatzky and Maciej Komosinski (eds.), Artificial Life Models in Hardware, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, and New York 2009, pp. 213-232.
Online at SpringerLink

Das geistige Maschinenreich und der inszenierte Betrug oder die Sache selbst. Zur Phänomenologie der Künstlichen Intelligenz, in: Heide Heinz and Christoph Weismüller (eds.), Psychoanalyse -- und wie anders? Texte-Gaben zum 70. Geburtstag von Rudolf Heinz, Düsseldorf 2009, pp. 195-212.

Die Jenaer Dissertation von Georg Klaus im Lichte seiner Beiträge zur Philosophie der Kybernetik,
in: Michael Fothe and Bernd Zimmermann (eds.), Zur Geschichte der Mathematik in Jena. Wurzeln strukturwissenschaftlichen Denkens, Jena 2009 (Schriftenreihe des Frege Centre for Structural Sciences Vol. 1), pp. 65-80.

A Structuralistic Approach to Ontologies [with Christian Schäufler and Clemens Beckstein],
in: Bärbel Mertsching, Marcus Hund, and Zaheer Aziz (eds.), KI 2009. Advances in Artificial Intelligence. 32nd Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2009, Paderborn, Germany, September 15-18, 2009. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 2009 (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Vol. 5803), pp. 363-370.
Online at SpringerLink

Behavioural Congruence in Turing Test-Like Human-Computer Interaction,
in: Bärbel Mertsching, Marcus Hund, and Zaheer Aziz (eds.), KI 2009. Advances in Artificial Intelligence. 32nd Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2009, Paderborn, Germany, September 15-18, 2009. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 2009 (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Vol. 5803), pp. 387-394.
Online at SpringerLink

Kybernetik zwischen Ingenieurwesen und Metaphysik. Eine Fallstudie zum Gebrauch von Analogien in den Strukturwissenschaften,
to appear in: Acta Historica Leopoldina, expected 2010.

Computers and Anthropology,
to appear in: H. James Birx (ed.), 21st Century Anthropology, Thousand Oaks/CA, London, New Delhi, expected 2010.

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