PUBLICATIONS
Philosophical work on interpretation and conceptual issues in biosemiotics
Robinson, A. and Southgate, C., 'A General Definition of Interpretation and its Application to Origin of Life Research'. Biology and Philosophy. Volume 25, number 2, March 2010, pp. 163-181.
http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s10539-009-9188-4
Christopher Southgate and Andrew Robinson, 'Interpretation and the Origin of Life'. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. Volume 45, No. 2, June 2010, pp. 345-360.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01085.x/abstract
Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate in Conversation with Terrence Deacon, 'Discussion of the Conceptual Basis of Semiotics'. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. Volume 45, No. 2, June 2010, pp. 409-418.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01089.x/abstract
Note: the articles in Zygon referred to above appear as part of a collection of articles in two consecutive issues of Zygon (June and September 2010) under the overall title God and the World of Signs: Semiotics and the Emergence of Life. The articles arose out of a conference in Berkeley, California, in Novemeber 2008, which was one of the early outcomes of our CTNS-STARS work.
Scientific work on the origin of life
L.T. Lui, Z.R. Yang, N. Lehman, B. Larsen, A.J.N. Robinson, and C.C.B. Southgate, Environment-specific state-changes in simple protobiotic systems: Investigation of the role of 'interpretive' responsiveness in the origin of life. Poster presented at the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, San Diego, February 2010.
Leong Ting Lui, Z. Ron Yang, Andrew J.N. Robinson, Christopher C.B. Southgate, 'Interpretation and the Origin of Life', Biological Theory, Spring 2010, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 112-116.
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/BIOT_a_00027
Overviews of the theological branch of the project
For a monograph covering all apsects of the project see: Andrew Robinson, God and the World of Signs: Trinity, Evolution and the Metaphysical Semiotics of C.S. Peirce, Leiden: Brill (2010).
http://www.brill.nl/god-and-world-signs
For a general overview of the theological aspects of the project see: Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate, "Semiotics as a Metaphysical Framework for Christian Theology," Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science Vol. 46, No. 3, September 2010, pp. 689-712.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01122.x/abstract
A brief introduction to the project also appeared in the first of the two issues of Zygon containing collections of articles related to the project (see above): Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate, 'Introduction: Toward a Metaphysic of Meaning'. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, Volume 45, No. 2, pp. 339-344.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01084.x/abstract
An early outline of Trinitarian aspects of the project was published in Zygon in 2004 (but note that much of that thinking has been refined in the later articles): Andrew J. Robinson, 'Continuity, Naturalism and Contingency: A Theology of Evolution Drawing on the Semiotics of C. S. Peirce and Trinitarian Thought'. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, Volume 39, No. 1, March 2004.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118781363/abstract
Incarnation, and Theological Anthropology
Our work on Incarnation, semiotics and theological anthropology is outlined in a pair of articles in Theology and Science:
Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate, "Incarnation and Semiotics: A Theological and Anthropological Hypothesis. Part 1: Incarnation and Peirce's Taxonomy of Signs," Theology and Science Vol. 8, No. 3 (2010): 265-282.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a926291767~frm=abslink
Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate, "Incarnation and Semiotics: A Theological and Anthropological Hypothesis. Part 2: Semiotics, Anthropology, and Religious Transformation," Theology and Science Vol. 8, No. 3 (2010): 283-302.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a926290956~frm=abslink
Other publications
Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate, 'Intelligent Design and the Origin of Life'. In John MacDonald Smith and John Quenby (eds) Intelligent Faith: A Celebration of 150 Years of Darwinian Evolution. Winchester: O Books, 2009. [Our chapter compares our approach with that of Intelligent Design theorists, and offers a critique of ID theory in relation to origin of life research.]
Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate, 'Broken Symbols?: A Response to F. LeRon Shults, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science Vol. 46, No. 3, September 2010, pp. 733-738. [Part of the dialogue spanning the two issues of Zygon, June and September 2010, referred to above].
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01124.x/abstract
