PUBLICATIONS
Definition of Interpretation and work on the Origin of Life
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
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.
Christopher Southgate and Andrew Robinson, 'Interpretation and the Origin of Life'. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. Volume 45, no 2, Forthcoming June 2010.
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, Forthcoming June 2010.
Note: the articles in Zygon referred to above appear as part of a collection of articles in two consecutive issues of Zygon 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 project.
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.]
Trinity, Incarnation, and Theological Anthropology
Articles outlining our theological work are forthcoming and will be notified on this site when publication details are known.
An early outline of Trinitarian aspects of the project was published in Zygon in 2004 (but please note that much of that thinking will be refined in our forthcoming 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
Introductions and Overviews
For a brief introduction to the project see:
Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate, 'Introduction: Toward a Metaphysic of Meaning'. Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, Volume 45, no 2, Forthcoming June 2010.
An overview of the theological aspects of the project will appear in the September issue of Zygon, together with other articles in the collection God and the World of Signs (see above).
Andrew Robinson's monograph God and the World of Signs: Trinity, Evolution and the Metaphysical Semiotics of C. S. Peirce (Leiden: Brill) is forthcoming in 2010.
