CURRICULUM VITAE Søren Brier
Positions
From 2008 Professor at Copenhagen Business School's Department of International Culture and Communication Studies. From 2003 - 2007 Assoc. Prof. CBS. Dept. of Management, Politics and Philosophy paid by the president’s funds. 1998-2003 Assoc. Prof. in Philosophy of Science at KVL (the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural U. of Copenhagen), IØSL (Dept. of Economics and Natural Resources). From 1987-1998 Assoc. Professor of Science and Technology Information Systems at the Royal School of Librarianship, Aalborg Branch, Denmark. Part time lecturer at Aalborg University in Philosophy of Science 1995-97 and at Copenhagen Business School 1999.
Before that, various part time jobs at Roskilde University, Nordische Universität Flensborg, Management courses at DIEU teaching ethics and environment to CEO’s, Sixth Form Colleges, Senior High Schools (taking pedagogical course), Higher Preparatory Courses and Folk Highs Schools plus free lecturing.
Education
Master of Science in biology from University of Copenhagen 1979 with exchange courses in philosophy of science, psychology and brain processes, comparative psychology. Thesis: A critical and historical examination of ethology’s explanatory concepts of perception, motivation and action (13). 1981-1983 research fellowship in Psychological Laboratory at The University of Copenhagen. 1994 Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science at The Inst. for the Study of Mathematics and Physics and their use in Research, Teaching and Practise (IMFUFA), Roskilde University Centre, Denmark. 2006 (March) Doctor of Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School (a Danish post-doctoral dissertation comparable to those in France and Germany) Title: Cybersemiotics: Why Information is not Enough. University of Toronto Press, May 2008. (Click for summary of thesis) (Click for University of Toronto Press website on the thesis edited and published)
Areas of research
1. A philosophy of science approach using second order cybernetics and Peircian biosemiotics as epistemological strategies in the understanding of informational, cognitive and communicational processes and their relation to the design of information systems and technology as well as developing a theory of machine, animal and human cognition, communication and understanding. An attempt to establish an transdisciplinary viewpoint with a focus on development of a non-reductionistic view called Cybersemiotics uniting the cybernetic informational approaches with biological as well as phenomenological approaches through a modernized version of C.S. Peirce’s semiotic theory and philosophy.
2. General studies of the conditions for and possibilities of making non-reductionistic transdisciplinary models and frameworks to improve the rationality of the interaction between different knowledge systems in society going from science versus humanities and social sciences to theoretical versus practical knowledge, tacit versus verbal knowledge, Wissenschaft versus metaphysical philosophy, religion and political ideologies
3. How to establish a theory of mind and meaning coherent with a scientific world view, when the present scientific world view does not allow mind and meaning to have any real causal influence on “scientific reality”?
4. How to understand - in order to improve - the interactions of science, politics, , technology, metaphysics and religion in the public Agora of the mass media in creating a cultural rationality in a global society. Is a second order Enlightenment project possible, where religion, ethics and political ideologies are included? C.S. Peirce’s work on redefining science, ethics, aesthetics and religion and their relations is studied in a modern framework.
Professional activities
Founder and editor of the interdisciplinary journal “Paradigma” 1986 - 1990.
A founder and board member of the Danish Academy of Applied Philosophy 1986-1996
1992- Member and trustee of the American Society for Cybernetics and
Member of The International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.
Editor of the international interdisciplinary quarterly journal Cybernetics & Human Knowing, founded in 1992-. Now published by Imprint Academic, London.
2001- Member of the board of RC51 Sociocybernetics group, ISA (Intern. Sociological Ass.)
1986 Member of the Danish Society for the Semiotics of Nature and the biosemiotic group.
2000- Occasional referee for Journal of Consciousness Studies.
2000: Member of the International Advisory Group for the collection of core texts for system science and cybernetics seminal papers for Systems Thinking, 4. Vol. (1664 pp.) ed. Gerald Midgley, Sage Library in Business and Management, Sage publications. 2002.
2000: Member of Vidennet og co-organizer of a couple of its conference at CBS with Søren Barlebo Rasmussen.
2003 member of the scientific board of FIS-group (Foundation of Information Science. Self-organized interdisciplinary group running a web site, three international conference, on ongoing list organized as thematic conference discussions.
2007 member of advisory board of The Science of Information Institute, organized by Dail Ducette as CEO, with Dr. Susan Speece, Chancellor of Pennsylvania State University Berks College and AAAS Fellow, as Chair of the Board.
2003 Member of the board of Systems Research
2003 member of the electronic journal Triple C (Communication, Cognition and Co-operation). Now official FIS journal.
2004 Member of the editorial Board of the new journal: Organisational Transformation and Social Change from Intellect.
CORDIS expert evaluator on the 7.th framework program.
Awards
1. The gold medal of the University of Copenhagen 1981 for a prize essay in psychology, on probabilistic and hierarchical models of motivation.
2. The International Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Cybernetics and System Research Foundation’s Distinguished Service Award in recognition of the distinguished service for the cybernetic community and for presenting an outstanding Keynote Address at the INTERSYMP’93 held August 2-8, 1993 in Baden-Baden, Germany.
3. Systems Research Foundation Award for his great contribution to advancement of Cybernetics and for his excellent editorial work in publishing Cybernetics and Human Knowing. Baden-Baden, Aug. 17. 1996.
4. EMCSR 2002 Best paper award for the symposium Foundation of Information Science.
5. Registrated in Marquis Who’sWho in the World.(2001- ) and in
6. Who’sWho in Science and Engineering (2002- )
Lectures at international conferences 1987-2007:
1987 "The American Society for Cybernetics". USA
1988 "The American Society for Cybernetics". USA
1989 "The American Society for Cybernetics". USA
1990 "The American Society for Cybernetics". USA
1991 "Conceptions of Library and Information Science: Historical, empirical and theoretical perspectives", Tampere, Finland. Proceedings in a book.
"The American Society for Cybernetics". USA.
1993 "6th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics" Baden-Baden. "The American Society for Cybernetics". USA.
1993 "Second European Congress on System Science" (CES 2), Prague. "The American Society for Cybernetics". USA.
1993 "Dansk selskab for naturens semiotik".
"The American Society for Cybernetics". USA.
1994
"Fifth Congress of the IASS/AIS June 12-18, 1994: Semiotics Around the world" June 12-18, Berkeley, California
"International Society for the System Sciences Thirty-Eighth Annual meeting: New Systems Thinking a New Century" June 14-19 Asilomar, Pacific Grove, California.
"Risiko, System und Umwelt" Seminar mit Niklas Luhmann am Humanistischen Forschungszentrum der Universität Odense, den 21. und 22. Juni.
International Conference on Interdisciplinary Research and 2nd Orwellian symposium i Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, august 8-11.
7th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics, 15-21 August in Baden Baden, 15-21 august.
Nordisk Biblioteksseminar, Danmarks Biblioteksskole, København, november.
"The American Society for Cybernetics". USA.
1995
Einstein meets Magrittes, Frie universitet Bruxelles, 28 maj til 3. juni.
The National research council of Norway’s conference on library Research, 14-15 of August. Oslo, Norway.
8th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics, 15-21 August in Baden Baden, Germany.
The emergence of codes and intentions as a basis of sign processes: An interdisciplinary semiotic symposium, October 16-28 1995, Man and Nature Humanities Research Center, Hollufgård, Odense Universitet, Danmark.
1996 9th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics, 15- 21 august in Baden Baden, 15-21 august.
Third European Congress on System Science, Rome 1-4. Okt. 1996 as organizer of the track, Cybersemiotics".
CoLIS2 (Conceptions of Library and Information Science 2) October, Royal School of Librarianship, Copenhagen.
FIS 2 (Foundation of Information Science) 1996, June, Vienna Technical University.
1997
InterSymp ’97 on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics, August 18 - 23 1997 Baden Baden, Germany
“Semiotics bridging Nature and Culture”, VI’th Int. Congress International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS-AIS), Guadalajara, Mexico, Julio, 13-18, 1997.
“CASYS’97: First International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems”, HEC LIEGE, Belgium, August 11-15, 1997.
1998
Speech at London School of Economics: Post graduate seminar on the application of the theory of autopoiesis on sociale phenomenons, such as social‑communicative systems. Invitered speaker and discussion summarizer. 5. Maj. Titel: On the extension of the use of the concept of autopoiesis from mechanistic biology into the realm of the phenomenological semantics and the realm of socio-communication.
Ph.d. course
and public conference at the Catholic University, Sao Paulo, Brasilien ,
Department of semiotics, postgraduate seminar, 1. Seminario Avancado de
Comunicacão e Semiótica: Biosemiótica e Semiótica Cognitiva, invited speaker
on Cybersemiotics.
University of Bari, Invited speaker at seminar 16 March 98 organized by prof.
Erminia Vaccari, Department of information science. Title: “Foundation of
Information Science: the suggestion of a Cybersemiotic Framework”.
The Triennial Conference of The International Association of Cybernetics,
25-29 August. Member of the organisation committee, Chair and speaker on the
section on Cybernetics and Semiotics. Paper: “Biosemiotics and the Foundation of
Cybersemiotics: Re-conceptualizing the insights of Ethology, second order
cybernetics and Peirce’s semiotics in biosemiotics to create a non‑cartesian
information science”. Speaker at a section on holistic theories. Paper:
“C.S. Peirce’s holistic, triadic, and pragmaticistic view of evolution and
signification”.
Lecture at Rørvig Folkehøjskole August on “Den nye fornuft: Paradigmeskift i
naturvidenskaberne”.
1999
International Seminar on Closure. Emergent Organizations and their Dynamics, 3 May, 1999, Gent. Participant in Octavian discussions.
International Conference on Jakob von Uexküll, organized in two parts and taking place in Tartu and Imatra, respectively:
Part I
organized on June 7-8, 1999, by the Department of Semiotics of the University of
Tartu together with the Jakob von Uexküll Centre in Tartu, Estonia. Workshop:
Uexküll and the Living Environment. Speech: “Uexküll’s influence on Lorenz’
development of the sign stimulus concept in ethology and its possible link to
Freud’s concept of symbols”.
Part II at the International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural
Studies, organized on June 10-13, 1999, by the
International Semiotics Institute (ISI) at Imatra Cultural Centre, Imatra,
Finland. Working Session on Uexküll and Biosemiotics. Paper in the
seminar of Semiotics and Cognitive Sciences. Speech: “Umwelten and
Anticipation in Cognition: Umwelten/Signification Spheres, Cognitive Domains,
Idealized Cognitive Models, and Language Games as Theories to Understand the
Construction of Interpretants in Anticipatory Bio-Semiotic Systems”.
The 43rd Annual Conference of The International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), 28. juni-2. Juli 1999, Asilomar, Ca, USA. Two plenum keynote presentations. Papers: ”On the Conflict between the Informational and the Semiotic Communicational Paradigm” and “The Self-Organization of Knowledge in a World of Complexity: The Interplay of Paradigms of Knowledge in the Non-Cartesian Transdisciplinary Epistemological Framework of Cybersemiotics”. Organizer and leader of the session on Foundations of Information Science. Member of International Program Committee.
Rørvig Folkehøjskole, 18 August, 1999, Rørvig. Presentation: ”Den nye fornuft”.
The 7th International Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies/Association Internationale de Sémiotique (IASS-AIS): Sign Processes in Complex Systems, Dresden, University of Technology, October 6-11, 1999. Paper, session on Biosemiotics: “On the connection between cognitive semantics and ethological concepts of motivation: A possible bridge between embodiment in cognitive semantics and the motivation concept in ethology”. Paper in session on Foundations of Information Science: “The relation between the semiotic and the informational research programs in the quest for a united theory for information, cognition and communication”
BOGFORUM 1999, 19-21 November: invited by Borgens Forlag to interview Ib Ravn about his book FLUX.
The Bennington International Conference on Mind and Brain, November 8-12, 1999, Bennington College, Vermont. Speech on “The Embodied Mind in Biosemiotic and Cybersemiotic Perspective”
International Association de Cybernetics triennial conference 25-29. August. Member of the organization committee, Chair and speaker on the section on Cybernetics and Semiotics, paper: Biosemiotics and the Foundation of Cybersemiotics: Reconceptualizing the insights of Ethology, second order cybernetics and Peirce’s semiotics in biosemiotics to create a non‑cartesian information science. Speaker on a section on holistisc theories, paper: C. S. Peirce’s holistic, triadic, and pragmaticistic view of evolution and signification.
Lecture on Rørvig Folkehøjskole August on ”Den nye fornuft: Paradigmeskift i naturvidenskaberne”.
24 lectures on Copenhagen Business School, dept. of Management, Politics and Philosophy, on The Historical development of the scientific self-understanding, ontology and epistemology in Europe from the Greeks to modern time. FLØK.
Bolzano International Schools in Cognitive Analysis, BISCA – 99: Advances in cognitive semantics. Istituto Mitteleuropeo di Cultura, Bolzano 6-10 September, 1999.
2000
Science Teaching and the Existential Perspective invited lecture at Centre of Teacher Education, Physics Education U. of Dortmund, Germany.
Cybersemiotic as a Bridge between nature and Culture, speech at The intern. Colloquium: The Semiotic Threshold from Nature to Culture, U. of Kassel, Tyskland, 16-17 feb.
What can Cybernetics and autopoiesis-theory offer to Peircian Biosemiotics? Invited key note speaker Semiosis in the City annual conference for The semiotic Society of America 18.-21 October, Toronto U.
Intrasemiotics, foredrag på den internationale konference Gatherings in Biosemiotics 1, København 24.-27 maj.
Language as an Ecological Force, speech at Seminar on Semiotics of Nature Årskonference for Intern. Summer Inst. For Semiotic and Structural Studies, Imatra, Finland, 10-15. juni.
The necessity of Trans-Scientific Frameworks for doing Interdisciplinary Research speech at Paradigms Lost and Paradigms Gained: Negotiating Interdisciplinarity in the 21st Century, Symposium May 9-12, 2000, U. of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Payed by the Canadian natioanl Research council.
Naturvidenskabens selvforståelse og interaktion med andre videnssystemer; hvordan lærer vi både naturvidenskabelig kompetence og dannelse? Speech at the EVITEK-conference: Fagets Videnskabsteori –eller – indførelse af Naturvidenskabeligt Filosofikum i Danmark, Odense 25. juni.
Biosemiotik og cybersemiotics, semiotics seminar at Aalborg Universitet, Inst. for Communikation..
Foredrag om tvær- og transvidenskabelighed på kurset i Videnskabsteori og etik hos Arkitektur og Design uddannelsen, Inst. For Samfundsudvikling og Planlægning, Aalborg U.
Design of Disciplined Inquiry on the Foundation of Information Science (FIS), Team leader of workshop based on own book manuscript: Cybersemiotics, Tenth Fuschl Conversation, International Federation for Systems Research, Fuschl am See, Austria.
Cybersemiotics as a suggestion for FIS, ISSS 44th annual meeting of the international society for the system sciences (ISSS), Toronto, Canada, 17.-19.July 2000.
A Cybersemiotic meditation on the role of biosemiotics in epistemological mapping of knowledge, NASS2000, Models, Maps, Schemata: Semiotics and Cognitive Science, 6th Congress of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies, Nov. 23-25. KU.
The European Science Education summer school: Bridging Research Methodology and Research Aims, 6-13. September. Lecture: The three Media Spheres and the Position of the Sciences in the Knowledge Society. Published in proceeding.
2001
Cybersemiotics, Biosemiotics and Ecosemiotics, seminar. Speech at Studies in Environmental Semiosis, Nordic-Baltic Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, International Semiotic Institute (ISI), Imatra, Finland, 12-21 June.
Naturvidenskab og eksistens, Naturvidenskab, Dannelse og Kompetence, DCNs prisopgave-overrækkelsesseminar.29. September, 2001. HCØ. KU. Part of Organizing committee.
Vidensdeling, hvad er det? Scan-Jour’s client seminar den 30 maj.
Krop og bevidsthed: En etologisk-biosemiotisk refleksion, Course in Naturfilosofi og videnskabsteori på Niels Bohr inst.
Cybernetics and Knowledge, Lecture at course in Videnskab og teknologi på HCØ.
Science Teaching and the Existential Perspective invited lecture at Centre of Teacher Education, Physics Education U. of Dortmund, Germany.
Cybersemiotic as a Bridge Between nature and Culture, invited speech at The intern. Colloquium: The Semiotic Threshold from Nature to Culture, U. of Kassel, Germany, 16-17 Feb.
What can Cybernetics and autopoiesis-theory offer to Peircian Biosemiotics? Invited key note speak at Semiosis in the City annual conference for The semiotic Society of America, 18.-21 October, Toronto U.
Intrasemiotics, speech at the international conference Gatherings in Biosemiotics 1, Copenhagen 24.-27 Maj.
Language as an Ecological Force, Seminar on Semiotics of Nature Year conference for Intern. Summer Inst. For Semiotic and Structural Studies, Imatra, Finland, 10-15. June.
Paradigms Lost and Paradigms Gained: Negotiating Interdisciplinarity in the 21st Century, Symposium May 9-12, 20001, U. of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Paid by the Canadian National Research Counsel.
Naturvidenskabens selvforståelse og interaktion med andre videnssystemer; hvordan lærer vi både naturvidenskabelig kompetence og dannelse? Foredrag på EVITEK-konferencen Fagets Videnskabsteori –eller – indførelse af Naturvidenskabeligt Filosofikum i Danmark, Odense 25. juni.
Biosemiotik og Cybersemiotics, talk at semiotics seminar on Aalborg University, Dept. of Communication..
2002
Invited talk: “The biosemiotics of Stress” at the conference Stress: La Clinica della vita på Universitá Internationale del Secundo Rinancimento, Milano, 10-12 May.
“Trans-scientific Frameworks of Knowing: Complementarity Views of the Different Types of Human Knowledge”, Experimenting arts and sciences the second European conference of the international society for literature and science, May 8-12, 2002. Århus University.
“The Five-leveled Cybersemiotic Model of FIS” at Sixteenth European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research – 2002, Vienna April 2-5. Best paper Award in session.
Leader of the Foundation of Information Science group at the Fuschl Conversations sponsored by International Federation of Systems Research, April 7- 12 Fuschl, Austria.
The second Biosemiotic Gatherings in Tartu 2002, talk:“ Third Culture: Cybersemiotic’s inclusion of a Biosemiotic Theory of Mind “.
Invited talk at Essen University, August 21, “ Cybersemiotics and the foundation of information science”.
“Luhmann Semiotized”, talk and participation in roundtable session on the RC51 (Sociocybernetics) at the International Sociological Association annual conference, JULY 7-13 2002, in Brisbane Australia.
Intern. Summer Inst. For Semiotic and Structural Studies, June 8-13, Imatra, Finland. Conference talk: “How can Scientific and Explanation Get Inside Life and Consciousness?”.
2003
Symposium on
the Religious Writings of Charles S. Peirce, Denver, 17 March 2003.
Paper:
“Peircian Panentheism and Scientific Mysticism”
4th Intern. Conf. of Sociocybernetics: “Sociocybernetics and the future of the social sciences”, Old City Corfu, Greece, June 30-July 5, 2003. Talk: “The Lomborg Case Viewed in the light of Luhmann’s Theory of Generalized Media and the Agora Concept.” Member of abstract review committee. Member of the board.
47th Annual Conference of the Intern. Soc. For the Systems Sciences: “The Agoras of the Global Village”, Creta Maris Conference Center, July 6th-11th, 2003 Hersonissos, Crete. Leader of the Foundation of Information Science SIG. Talk “FIS and Cybersemiotics”.
1st Intern. Conf. On Industrial INFORMATICS – INDIN 2003, e-logostics for a Fail-Safe-World. August 20-24, Banff, Alberta, Canada. Invited key note speaker: “The Cybersemiotic model of communication”.
9th Early Fall School of Semiotics, 6-14 September, 2003, St. Kyrik (Plovdiv), Southeastern-European Semiotic Centre at New Bulgarian University. Invited speaker: Two talks for PhD. students on the relation between science and semiotics and one talk to the scientific conference and workshop on Cybersemiotics.
The Heinz von Foerster Conference 10Th-13Th of November Vienna inst. For Systemic Coaching and training and The American Society for Cybernetics : Under theme: The Formation of Learning Relationships in Organizations: S. Brier Talk : Understanding Understanding as Pragmatic Communication . Workshop S. Brier: Understanding is finding a common context.
The American Society for Cybernetics Annual Conference in Vienna November 13-15 within the framework of Knowledge Organization Society. Heinz von Foerster and the Biological Computer Laboratory This conference is co-sponsored by the University of Vienna and the Austrian Society of Cognitive Science. Talk by S. Brier: Triple Closure.
The opening of System Theory, Center for Corporate Communication, CBS, talk: “Luhmann Semiotized”. Proceedings on website for Center for Corporate Communication.
Center for kunst og ledelse, Kanonhallen, Onsdag d. 3 december: Samtalen som improvisitation.
Royal School of Library and Information Science. 4. December: Året Bøger: Brier, S. : En kritik af et udvalg af årets populærvidenskabelige bøger, herunder Tor Nørretranders ”At tro på at tro”. Artikel til ”Bogens Verden”
2004
Talks: ” Cosmos, Infos, Semios: The role of semiotics in creation of worldviews for integrating scientific visions of manipulation of nature and mind into cultural views of meaning, human nature, ethics and knowledge that shapes our design of organisations, communication and their technologies” keynote, Roundtable, Mind and matter in the life of signs. Science versus humanities in (Bio)semiotics. Finish Network University of Semiotics: The Semiotic Web, Intern. Summer School for Semiotics and Structural Studies, Imatra, Valionhotelli, 3-9 June, 2004, Finland. Abstract book.
“C.S. Peirce’s theory of mind and of consciousness as biosemiotic reflected mind: A Cybersemiotic Approach”, poster on Towards a science of consciousness, 10th Tucson conference, April, 2004.
“What is the pattern that connects? Bateson in a Cybersemiotic perspective” Gatherings in Biosemiotics, Prague, July 1-5, 2004.
1. “A Cybersemiotic approach to the role of embodiment in interstellar communication” (invited)
2. “The consequences of Cybersemiotics for our view of communication, cognition and co-operation, including computers” (invited)
3. The Cybersemiotic view of the efficient, formal and final causation aspects of neural communication and consciousness “
at the conference : Interculturalité et globalisation: Signes du monde, Lyon, 7-12 Juillet 2004. Held by Association Internationale de Sémiotique, Ass. Francaise de Sémiotique, Ass. Intn. de sémiotique visuelle.
”Ficta: The new Scientific Novel” on the 5th International Conference of Sociocybernetics Social knowledge for the contemporary world, ISA- Int. Sociological Ass., Research Committee 51 on Sociocybernetics, Universida Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciencas socias e humanias, Lisbon, Portugal, July 26-31, 2004.
Danmarks Biblioteks og informationsvidenskabelige universitet. 14. December: Årets Fagbøger: Brier, S. : En kritik af et udvalg af årets populærvidenskabelige bøger i naturvidenskab.
2005
Computing and Philosophy: E-CAP2005@MDH SWEDEN Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden, June 2-4, 2005, Chair: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic. Member of Program Committee and program chair for Biological Information, Artificial Life, Biocomputation. Talk: “A Cybersemiotic view on information and computation”.
FIS2005. Third Conference on the Foundations of Information Science, Paris, 4-7 July 2005, ENSTA Paris. Member of the Organizing Committee and the International Scientific Advisory Board. Talk: “The Cybersemiotic model of communication: An evolutionary view on the threshold between semiosis and informational exchange.”
5th Gatherings in Biosemiotics 5, Urbino, Italy, 20-24 July, University Campus, “Sogesta”. Talk: “The biosemiotic paradigm: Is a common philosophy of science reflected description possible?”
IFSR 2005, The New Role of System Sciences for a Knowledge-based Society, The First World Congress of the International Federation of Systems Research, Nov. 14-17, 2005, Kobe Japan. Part of organizing committee, in “Foundation of the system sciences” invited expenses paid speaker. Also talk at the Ryokoko University near Kyoto.
Copenhagen Bateson Symposium 2005: Bateson and the Epistemology of the Sacred - The Science-Religion Pattern, August 24 - 27, 2005, Sponsored by the program Religion in the 21st Century, University of Copenhagen, part of the organizing committee. Talk: “Bateson and Peirce on the Sacred - The Lonely Skeleton of Truth versus Evolutionary love”.
Danmarks Biblioteks og informationsvidenskabelige universitet. 13. December: Året Bøger: Brier, S : En kritik af et udvalg af årets populærvidenskabelige bøger i naturvidenskab, plus videnskabsteori og metode bøger.
Luhmann og Epistemologi, Open seminar at the IT-university, Copenhagen, Amager. Talk: “Luhmann og den manglende korporligt situerede person (det immanente subjekt)”
2006
ISA - International Sociological Association, XVIth World Congress of Sociology
The Quality of Social Existence in a Globalizing World, Durban, South Africa, July 23-29, 2006 - Organizing and refereeing the session Luhmann Applied for Research Committee 51 on Sociocybernetics.
Talk: “The Missing Person: Problems in Reflecting Luhmannian Empirical Systemic Research Results: Back into a Democratic Society of Embodied, Juridical, Political and Ethical Responsible Subjects”. Abstract published on paper article on CD-ROM.
Other scholarly activities
Reelected as Member of the board of RC51 Sociocybernetics group, ISA (Intern. Sociological Ass.) and its quality group.
Experience in the organization of research, including management of research seminars, symposia, and congresses.
I parttake in organizing interdisciplinary scientific groups like Foundation of Information Science, The Sociocyberntic Group (ISA). FIS Special Interest Group under ISSS and on IFSR’s Fuschel conversation conferences.
In my journal Cybernetics & Human Knowing I now have a managing editor, an associate editor, an art editor, book review editor and two columnist whom I have picked.
I did some project evaluations in semiotics and biosemiotics for the Estonian national research council in 2005.
Has been appointed to European Commission - NEST Evaluations Jan. 2006.
Partaking
in organizing conferences
Naturvidenskab og eksistens, Naturvidenskab, Dannelse og Kompetence, DCNs prize essay conference. 29. September, 2001. HCØ. KU. Part of organizing committee.
Leader of the Foundation of Information Science group at the Fuschl Conversations sponsored by International Federation of Systems Research, April 7- 12 Fuschl, Austria. 2000, 2002, 2004.
4th Intern. Conf. of Sociocybernetics: “Sociocybernetics and the future of the social sciences”, Old City Corfu, Greece, June 30-July 5, 2003. Talk: “The Lomborg Case Viewed in the light of Luhmann’s Theory of Generalized Media and the Agora Concept.” Member of abstract review committee. Member of the board.
47th Annual Conference of the Intern. Soc. For the Systems Sciences: “The Agoras of the Global Village”, Creta Maris Conference Center, July 6th-11th, 2003 Hersonissos, Crete. Leader and referee for the Foundation of Information Science SIG. Talk “FIS and Cybersemiotics”.
Computing and Philosophy: E-CAP2005@MDH SWEDEN Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden, June 2-4, 2005, Chair: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic. Member of Program Committee and program chair for Biological Information, Artificial Life, Biocomputation. Talk: “A Cybersemiotic view on information and computation”.
FIS2005. Third Conference on the Foundations of Information Science, Paris, 4-7 July 2005, ENSTA Paris. Member of the Organizing Committee and the International Scientific Advisory Board. Talk: “The Cybersemiotic model of communication: An evolutionary view on the threshold between semiosis and informational exchange.”
IFSR 2005, The New Role of System Sciences for a Knowledge-based Society, The First World Congress of the International Federation of Systems Research, Nov. 14-17, 2005, Kobe Japan. Part of organizing committee, in “Foundation of the system sciences” invited expenses paid speaker. Also talk at the Ryokoko University near Kyoto.
Copenhagen Bateson Symposium 2005: Bateson and the Epistemology of the sacred - The Science-Religion Pattern, August 24 - 27, 2005, Sponsored by the program Religion in the 21st Century, University of Copenhagen, part of the organizing committee. Talk: “Bateson and Peirce on the Sacred The Lonely Skeleton of Truth versus Evolutionary love”.
PUBLICATIONLIST for Søren Brier 08-02-2007
1. (Bemærk at listen er kronologisk og indeholder derfor alle udgaver, der er udgivet af bøger og kompendier. Listen omfatter også anmeldelser, kronikker, formidlingstekster og lærebogstekster)
2. Brier, S. (1979): Om adfærdens årsager, Speciale i biologi ved Kbh. Universitet
3. Brier, S. (1980): Prisopgave i psykologi A: Der ønskes analyseret (evt. vha. egne undersøgelser), om hierarki‑ og sandsynlighedsbetragtninger i beskrivelsen af adfærd kan anvendes i ‑ og udbygge ‑ een eller flere motivationspsykologiske teorier eller modeller. Modtaget Københavns Universitets guldmedalje.
4. Brier, S. (1981): “Introduktion til humanetologien : Ideologi eller videnskab?” og “Om grænser for sammenligning. Den komparative metode og spørgsmålet om humanetologiens genstand”, s. 96‑151 i Niche: Nordisk tidsskrift for kritisk biologi. Årg. 2 nr. 2.
5. Brier, S. (1982): “En ikke-reduktionistisk etologis bidrag til løsning af psykologiens biologiske grundlagsproblem”. s. 95‑143 i Psyke & Logos, nr. 1, 1982.
6. Brier, S. (1982): “Den fortrængte natur ‑ energiens elendighed og det utopiske samfund: En refererende og diskuterende anmeldelse af Jesper Hoffmeyers bog: ”Samfundets naturhistorie”, Biofag, nr. 6, dec.
7. Brier, S. (1985): “Evolutionsteorier: Ideologi eller videnskab?”, s. 60‑72 i Biofag, nr. 2. april.
8. Brier, S. (1985): “Kultur og natur: Den glemte harmoni”. s. 422‑426 i Højskolebladet, nr. 27.
9. Brier, S. (1985): “Menneske og natur er ude af balance: Tværfaglig forskning er vejen frem”, Ingeniøren, 11.okt.
10. Brier, S. (1985): “Informationsbegrebet set i lyset af Batesons bidrag til løsning af etologiens grundlagsproblem” s. 25‑46 i Informationssamfundet red. Thomas Söderqvist, Forlaget Philosophia.
11. Brier, S. (1985): “Guds herlige maskine”, s. 40‑47 i Naturkampen nr. 38.
12. Brier, S. (1986): “Et udvidet lønsomhedsbegreb ‑ og tværvidenskabens betydning for dets skabelse”, s. 167‑170 i Højskolebladet nr. 11, 15. marts 1986.
13. Brier, S. (1986): “Kors hvor skal vi frådse i billig information”, Kronik i Dansk Ungdom & Idræt, nr. 15, 1986.
14. Brier, S. (1986): “Miljøkonflikter i historisk lys”, s. 77‑88 i Humanistisk Teknologi: Temaerne i Hum.Tek.‑uddannelsen, red. Peter Kemp, Hum.Tek‑studienævnet, Københavns Universitet.
15. Brier, S. (1986): “Kan en Galileisk psykologi forene etologi og fænomenologi?: En videnskabsteoretisk analyse af grundlagsproblemer i Iven Reventlows forsøg på at etablere en psykobiologisk videnskab på tværs af dyr‑menneske skellet”. I Del og Helhed: Teoretiske og metodiske studier over komplicerede psykobiologiske fænomener. Festskrift til Iven Reventlow på hans 60‑årsdag, 2.‑6. 1986, forlaget Politiske studier.
16. Brier, S. (1986): “Livet som udtryk for universets selvorganiserende tendens” s. 329‑32 i Højskolebladet, nr. 21, 31. maj 1986.
17. Brier, S. (1986): “Virkeligheden er større end videnskaben”. Kronik i Information d. 31. maj 1986.
18. Brier, S. (1986): “Børne af‑ og tilretning: De dumme børn og kærligheden”, s. 206‑215 i Pædagogisk tidsskrift nr. 6, dec.
19. Brier, S. (1986): “Uvidenhedens sky” Kronik, Information, 24. nov.
20. Brier, S., Lauritsen, L., Ravn, I., Bouchet, D., Jørgensen, O. og Krumhardt, A.: “Paradigma, et tidskrift om videnskab og virkeligheder. Om refleksionens nødvendighed, erkendelsens mangfoldighed, tværvidenskabelighedens frugtbarhed og mønstre i helheder”. Redaktionel erklæring, Paradigma nr. 1, årg. 1, Ask.
21. Brier, S. (1986): “Kompleksitet og kaos: Er en helhedstænkning mulig?” Temaforord Paradigma nr. 1, årg. 1, Ask.
22. Brier, S. (1987): “Irreversibilitet, tid og udvikling” Temaforord til Paradigma nr. 2, årg. 1, s. 1‑3. Ask.
23. Brier, S. (1987): “Den indfoldede orden og holografimetaforen”, Temaforord i Paradigma nr. 3, årg. 1, Ask.
24. Brier, S. (1987): “Naturvidenskab, humaniora og erkendelsesteori: Er en holistisk sammentænkning mulig?”, s. 85‑109 i Kritik nr. 79/80, Gyldendal.
25. Brier, S. (1987): “Sundhed set i et udvidet økologisk perspektiv” s. 87‑95 i Sundhed, Samfund og selvudvikling, Debatbog fra Midteroprøret.
26. Brier, S. (1987): “New Age holismen: Totalitetstænkning eller videnskabelig ydmyghed”? s. 48‑55 i Paradigma nr. 1, årg. 2.
27. Brier, S. (1988): “AAF: Akademiet for anvendt filosofi ‑ eller Andelsselskabet for anvendt fornuft?” s. 56‑59 i Paradigma nr. 4, 2. årg. Ask.
28. Brier, S. (1988): Holisme og paradigmeskift i naturvidenskabernes verdensbillede. En bogliste fra biblioteket. Bibliotekscentralen as, Ballerup.
29. Brier, S. (1988): “Ændrede bevidsthedstilstande: hallucinationer, underligheder eller højere erkendelser”? Temaforord i Paradigma nr. 1, 3. årg. Ask, s. 1‑3.
30. Brier, S. (1988): “Den paradigmatiske baggrund for begrebet ‘højere bevidsthedstilstande’”. Paradigma nr. 1, 3. årg. Ask. s. 40‑48.
31. Brier, S. (1989): “Fysikkens virkelighed ‑ virkelighedens fysik” Temaforord til Paradigma nr. 2, 3. årg. Ask, s. 1‑2.
32. Brier, S. (1989): “Fysik og mystik : Hinsides verdensformel og totalitarisme” Paradigma nr. 2, 3. årg. Ask. s. 21‑30.
33. Brier, S (1989): “Fra information til personlig viden”, Corona, juli.
34. Brier, S.(1989): “Mystikkens verdensbillede: Et alternativ til videnskabelig og religiøs fundamentalisme”. Kosmologisk Information, nr. 3.
35. Brier, S.(1989): “Kroppen er min verden ‑ verden er min krop”. Temaforord til Kropsparadigmer”, Paradigma nr. 1, 4 årg. Ask.
36. Brier, S.(1989): “Kan kosmologisk viden være videnskabelig?: En diskussion mellem forskningsprofessor i atomfysik ved NORDITA, Holger Bech Nielsen, Lektor i fysik, IMFUFA, RUC, Peder Voetmann Christiansen og Søren Brier”. Paradigma nr. 2, 4 årg. Ask.
37. Brier, S. (1990): “Det uregerlige liv: Om livet, generne og termodynamikken”, Paradigma nr. 2, 4. årg., Forlaget Ask.
38. Brier, S. (1990): “BDI: Videnskab eller kunst?: Om forholdet mellem informationsvidenskab og menneske.” Biblioteksarbejde nr. 29, s.5-15.
39. Brier, S. (1991): “En humanøkologisk holisme”, Kosmologisk Information nr. 1, s.10-12.
40. Brier, S.(1991): “Etik, Bevidsthed og samfund” (del 1), Kosmologisk Information nr. 3, s.12-14.
41. Brier, S.(1991): “Etik, Bevidsthed og samfund” (del 2), Kosmologisk Information nr. 4.
42. Brier, S. (1991): “Kybernetik, en helt ny videnskab,” Kronik om den nye kybernetik i Berlingske Tidende, fredag d. 15 marts.
43. Brier, S. (1991): “Naturvidenskabens fødsel som autonomt videnssystem” i Dahlkild, Munck-Petersen og Ørum (red) 1992: ”Kultur- og idéhistorie: En essaysamling til BDI-uddannelsen”, bind 1, s.107-125, Danmarks Biblioteksskole, 1992.
44. Brier, S. (1991): “Det 20.århundredes paradigmeskift i naturvidenskaberne: Relativitet, kvant og kaos” i Dahlkild, Munck-Petersen og Ørum (red) 1992: ”Kultur- og idéhistorie: En essaysamling til BDI-uddannelsen”, bind 2, s.155-177, Danmarks Biblioteksskole, 1992.
45. Brier, S.(1992): “Kunstigt liv?”, Kosmologisk Information nr.1, feb. 1992, s. 12-13.
46. Brier, S. (1992): “Anmeldelse af Mikael Rothstein: ’Gud er blå’” i Kosmologisk Information nr.1, feb. 1992, s. 38.
47. Brier, S. (1992): “Semiotiske noter: Den nye kybernetik og informationens virkeligheder” Almen Semiotik, nr.5, p.187-191.
48. Brier, S. (1992): “Masser af Information Uden betydning: En diskussion af informationsteorien i Tor Nørretranders “Mærk Verden” og et alternativ baseret på anden ordens kybernetik og semiotik” Tekst nr. 229, IMFUFA, RUC.
49. Brier, S.(1992): “Bevidstheden som brugerillusion”, Kosmologisk Information nr. 2, 1992, s. En anmeldelse af Tor Nørretranders: ”Mærk Verden”.
50. Brier, S. (1992): “Samtaleetik og det globale miljø” i Ledelse i dag, nr.7. sommer 1992, s. 52-56
51. Brier, S. (1992): “Anmeldelse af James Sire’s ‘Verdensbilleder’” i Kosmologisk Information nr. 3, 1992, s.36-38.
52. Brier, S. (1992): “Foreword” (positional statement) i Cybernetics & Human Knowing, vol. 1, no.1, pp. 1-4.
53. Brier, S. (1992): “A philosophy of science perspective - on the idea of a unifying information science” in P. Vakkari and B. Cronin (ed.) (1992): Conceptions of Library and Information Science: Historical, empirical and theoretical perspectives, Taylor Graham, London, pp. 97-108.
54. Brier, S. (1992): “Information and Consciousness: A Critique of the Mechanistic foundation of the Concept of Information” in Cybernetics & Human Knowing, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol.1, no. 2/3, pp 71- 94.
55. Brier, S.(1992): "Videnskabens Ø: Træk af moderne videnskabsteoris diskussion af forholdet mellem induktion, objektivitet og sandhed i naturvidenskaberne med særlig vægt på forholdet mellem Karl Poppers og Thomas Kuhns teorier". Nordisk Sommeruniversitet, Aalborg.
56. Brier, S. (1993): “Conversational Ethics and the Global Environment” in Cybernetics & Human Knowing vol. 1, no.4, 1993, pp. 51-55.
57. Brier, S.(1993): “Cyber-Semiotics: Second order cybernetics and the Semiotics of C.S. Peirce” in Proceedings from the Second European Congress on System Science, Prague, October 5-8. 1993. AFCET.
58. Brier, S.(1993): “Populærvidenskab som kulturformidling” pp.134-147 i Ørum, A. et.al. Ud over grænserne, Forlaget Biblioteksarbejde, Aalborg.
59. Brier, S. (1993): ”Hen mod en tværfaglig informationsvidenskab” pp. 5-23 i Biblioteksarbejde nr. 38, 14. årgang, Aalborg.
60. Brier, S. (1994): Naturvidenskabelig populærvidenskab: Mellem objektivitet, engagement og forførelse, Danmarks Biblioteksskoles forlag. Pp. 66.
61. Brier, S.(1994): "Videnskabens Ø: Træk af moderne videnskabsteoris diskussion af forholdet mellem induktion, objektivitet og sandhed i videnskaberne med informationsvidenskaben som eksempel og med særlig vægt på Poppers og Kuhns teorier". Nordisk Sommeruniversitet, Aalborg. 2. udvidede udg.
62. Brier, S. (1994): "Verdensformlen, der blev væk naturvidenskabens idehistorie med særlig vægt på paradigmeskift", Aalborg Universitetsforlag.
63. Brier, S. (1994): “On the foundation of Consciousness in a Theory of Knowledge” and
64. “An Alternative Understanding of Knowledge and Information Based on a Paradigm of Higher States of Consciousness” p.1335-1356 in Brady, B. and Peano, L. (ed.)(1994): New Systems Thinking and Action for a New Century, International Society for the Systems Sciences, Proceedings of the Thirty-Eight Annual Meeting, Asilomar Conference Centre, Pacific Grove, California, June 14-19, 1994.
65. Brier, S. (1994): “Second Order Cybernetic and Semiotic Perspective on the Idea of a Unified Information Science” pp.5-10 in Lasker, G. E. (1994): Advances in Interdisciplinary Research and Cybernetics, vol.1, International Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.
66. Brier, S. (1994): “On the Foundation of Consciousness in a Theory of Knowledge” p. 81-89 in Lasker, G.E, & Murphy, D. (eds.) (1994): Advances in Research of Human Consciousness, 111 pp, International Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, IIAS-12-94, ISBN 0921836163.
67. Brier, S. (1994): "Information er sølv... Om muligheden for en pragmatisk informationsteori baseret på anden ordens kybernetik, semiotik og sprogspilsteori". Ph.D. afhandling i videnskabsteori indleveret ved IMFUFA, RUC hos Stig Andur Pedersen og bedømt og godkendt af Ole Thyssen og Ole Fogh Kirkeby, begge DASY, Handelshøjskolen i København. Med engelsk summary. Pp.268.
68. Brier, S. (1994): “Cyber-Semiotics: On autopoiesis, code-duality and sign-games in bio-semiotics”. Konferenceoplæg fra “Fifth Congress of the IASS/AIS June 12-18, 1994: Semiotics Around the world”, June 12-18, Berkeley, California.
69. Brier, S. (1994): “Why documents and information are not easily accessible in the huge international information retrieval systems: an evaluation of the theory behind information retrieval, from a cybernetic, a semiotic and a language game point of view.” Key-note address at the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Research and 2nd Orwellian symposium, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, August 8-11.
70. Brier, S.(1994): "Information er sølv...: Om muligheden for en pragmatisk informationsvidenskab baseret på anden ordens kybernetik, semiotik og sprogspilsteori", Let forkortet udgave af Ph.D. afhandling i videnskabsteori, IMFUFA, RUC, udgivet på forlaget Biblioteksarbejde, Danmarks Biblioteksskoles Aalborg-afdeling, Aalborg. Pp. 258 med stikordsregister.
71. Brier, S. (1994): "Informationsbegreber og mening". Ph.D. foredrag af Søren Brier, IMFUFA, RUC, fredag den 16.december, duplikeret.
72. Brier, S. (1995): ”Genprojektets metafysik - Algoritmisk informationsmaterialisme”, pp. 157-188 i Philosophia-Tidsskrift for filosofi, Årg. 23, nr. 1-2, Filosofisk forening i Århus, Filosofisk inst., Aarhus Universitet.
73. Brier, S. (1995): “Cyber-Semiotics: Can the triadic semiotics of Peirce and the second order cybernetics of von Foerster, Maturana, Varela and Luhmann be fruitfully connected to a new second order non-mechanistic framework for interdisciplinary information science.” Abstract til konferencen “Einstein meets Magritte: An interdisciplinary reflection on science, nature, human action and society” 29. maj - 3.juni 1995 på Vrije universitet, Bruxelles
74. Brier, S. (1995): “Trust in the Order of Things”, a review of F. Mathews, (1994). The Ecological Self, Routledge, London, pp.292. Systems Practice. Vol. 9, No.4, 1996, pp. 377-385.
75. Brier, S. (1995): "Videnskabens Ø", 3. udv. udgave med stikordsregister. Nordisk Sommeruniversitet, pp. 158.
76. Brier, S. (1995): “Childhood, Ethics and Civilization: Attachment and the modern family’s problems with the emphatic upbringing of children”. Conference paper for the 7th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics, 15-21 august in Baden Baden, 15-21 august. In the International Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.
77. Brier, S. (1995): ”Wages for Family Workers”, Conference paper to the 7th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics, 15-21 august in Baden Baden, 15-21 august. In the International Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.
78. Brier, S. (1995): “Cyber-Semiotics: On autopoiesis, code-duality and signgames in bio-semiotics” in Cybernetics & Human Knowing, Vol. 3, no. 1.
79. Brier, S. (1995): “Naturvidenskabsformidling er også kulturformidling”, tidsskriftet Jord og Viden.
80. Brier, S. (1995): “Cybersemiotics: A paradigm integrating pragmatic linguistics, second order cybernetics with the triadic semiotics of C.S. Peirce” i “The emergence of codes and intentions as a basis of sign processes: An interdisciplinary semiotic symposium, October 26-28 1995”, Man and Nature Humanities Research Center, Hollufgård, Odense Universitet, Danmark. (Ikke fortløbende nummereret).
81. Brier, S. (1996): “From Second-order Cybernetics to Cybersemiotics: A Semiotic Re-entry into the Second -order Cybernetics of Heinz von Foerster”, Systems Research, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp.229-244, 1996.
82. Brier, S. (1996): “Cybersemiotics: A new interdisciplinary development applied to the problems of knowledge organization and document retrieval in information science”, Journal of Documentation, Vol. 52, no. 3, September 1996, pp.296-344.
83. Brier, S.(1996): “The Necessity of a Theory of Signification and Meaning in Cybernetics and Systems Science”, Proceedings of the Third European Congress on Systems Science, Rome, 1-4 October 1996, Edizioni Kappa, pp. 693-697.
84. Brier, S. (1997): “Cyber-semiotics: On autopoiesis, code-duality and signgames as vital aspects of bio-semiotics”, pp. 913-916 in “Semiotics around the World: Synthesis in Diversity: Proceedings of the Fifth Congress of the International Society for Semiotic Studies, Berkeley 1994”, Ed. I. Rauch and G.F. Carr, Mounton de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 1997
85. Brier, S. (1997): "Videnskabens Ø: Introduktion til videnskabsteori med særlig vægt på natur- og informationsvidenskab", 4. udv. Udg., NSU Press, Århus, pp. 168.
86. Brier, S. (1997): “Biosemiotics and cybersemiotics: The integration of biosemiotics in a larger framework of self-organizing signifying systems”, in Sankey, M.R., Gimate-Welsh, A. and Pellegino, P. (1997): Semiotics bridging Nature & Culture, VI’th International Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Guadalajara, Mexico, Julio, 13-18, 1997. p. 215, abstract. Guadalajara: IASS
87. Brier, S. (1997): “Videnskabsformidling: Forskningens store kredsløb” i Brier et. al. (1997): Faglitteraturens dokumenttyper i kommunikations, - og videnskabsteoretiske belysning: -kategorier, -medier, -former, -genrer, -niveauer & kvaliteter. Bind 1: Dokumenttypologiens almene teori og former. København: Danmarks Biblioteksskole, 6. foreløbige udgave, pp. 209-229.
88. Brier, S. (1997): “Cd-rom som faglitterært medie”, Brier et. al. (1997): "Faglitteraturens dokumenttyper i kommunikations, - og videnskabsteoretiske belysning: -kategorier, -medier, -former, -genrer, -niveauer & kvaliteter". Bind 1: Dokumenttypologiens almene teori og former. København: Danmarks Biblioteksskole, 6. foreløbige udgave, pp. 243-265.
89. Brier, S. (1997): "Informationens program: Etologi, kybernetik og semiotiks rolle i udviklingen af et evolutionsteoretisk grundlag for en tværfaglig informationsvidenskab", Aalborg: Danmarks Biblioteksskole, duplikat, pp.207.
90. Brier, S. (1997): “What is a Possible Ontological and Epistemological Framework for a True Universal ‘Information Science’: The Suggestion of Cybersemiotics”, World Futures, 1997, Vol. 49, pp. 287-308.
91. Brier, S. (1997): “Fikta: En ny type fiktionaliseret populærvidenskab?” i Biblioteksarbejde, Nr. 51/52, Aalborg, pp. 31-43.
92. Brier, S. (1997): “CD-ROM som populærvidenskabeligt medie“ i Biblioteksarbejde, Nr. 51/52, Aalborg, pp. 65-84.
93. Brier, S. (1997): “Cybersemiotics: A paradigm integrating, second order cybernetics with the triadic semiotics of C.S. Peirce and Wittgensteins Pragmatic Language Game theory to a Transdisciplinary Theory of the Self-organization of Meaning” i Revue de la pensée d’aujourd’hui, vol. 25-7. In Japanese!
94. Brier, S. (1998): “Malcolm Crowe, Richard Beeby and John Gammack. Constructing systems and information: a process view. London, New York: McGrawhill, 1999”. A review in Journal of Documentation, vol. 54, no. 1, Jan.1998, pp. 136-140.
95. Brier, S. (1998): “Cybersemiotics: a transdisciplinary framework for information studies”, BioSystems 46 (1998) 185-191.
96. Brier, S. (1999): “What is a possible ontological and epistemological framework for a true universal “Information science”? The suggestion of a cybersemiotics”. World futures general evolution studies; The quest for a unified theory of Information: Proceedings of the 2. International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science, 1996, Vienna, Austria, 79-99.
97. Brier, S. (1999): Cybersemiotics. A Trans-Disciplinary Framework for Information and Communication Studies, 10th ed., Ph.D. course compendium published by Section for Method and Project Work, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University.
98. Brier, S. (1999): ”Biosemiotics and the foundation of cybersemiotics. Reconceptualizing the insights of Ethology, second order cybernetics and Peirce’s semiotics in biosemiotics to create a non-Cartesian information science”, Semiotica, 127-1/4, 1999, 169-198. Special issue on Biosemiotics.
99. Brier, S. (1999): ”On the Conflict between the Informational and the Semiotic Communicational Paradigm”, Proceedings from the 43rd Annual Conference of The International Society for the Systems Sciences, 28. Juni-2. Juli, Asilomar, Ca, USA. CD-ROM, Article no. 99169.
100. Brier, S. (1999): ”The Self-Organization of Knowledge in a World of Complexity: The Interplay of Paradigms of Knowledge in the Non-Cartesian Transdisciplinary Epistemological Framework of Cybersemiotics”, Proceedings from the 43rd Annual Conference of The International Society for the Systems Sciences, 28. Juni-2. Juli, Asilomar, Ca, USA. CD-ROM , Article no. 99122.
101. Brier, S. (2000): Fra Fakta til Fikta. Videnskabsformidlingens og populærvidenskabens kvaliteter og former i underholdningens tidsalder, 4. udg., kompendium udg. af Sektion for Metode og Projektarbejde, Den kgl. Veterinær- og Landbohøjskole.
102. Brier, S. (2000): “Biosemiotic as a possible Bridge between Embodiment in cognitive Semantics and the Motivation concept of Animal cognition. in Ethology”. Cybernetics & Human Knowing, 7(1), pp 57-75.
103. Brier, S. (2000): Fra Kosmos til Infos: Stof, Energi, Information. En fremstilling af det mekanicistiske forskningsprograms brydning med de evolutionære, energetiske og informationsvidenskabelige natur- og videnssyn, Kompendium KVL, IØSL, SLOT, pp.425.
104. Brier, S. (2000): ”On the connection between cognitive semantics and ethological concepts of motivation: A possible bridge between embodiment in cognitive semantics and the motivation concept in ethology”, Proceedings from the 7th International Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies/Association Internationale de Sémiotique (IASS-AIS): Sign Processes in Complex Systems, Dresden, University of Technology, October 6-11, 1999. Accepted, in print.
105. Brier, S. (2000): ”The relation between the semiotic and the informational research programs in the quest for a united theory for information, cognition and communication”, Proceedings from the 7th International Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies/Association Internationale de Sémiotique (IASS-AIS): Sign Processes in Complex Systems, Dresden, University of Technology, October 6-11, 1999. Accepted in print.
106. Brier, S. (2000): ”Trans-Scientific Frameworks of Knowing: Complementarity Views of the Different Types of Human Knowledge”, Yearbook Edition of Systems Research & Behavioral Science, System Research, 17, pp. 433-458.
107. Brier, S. (2000): “Cybersemiotics As a Suggestion For FIS”. Proceedings of The World Congress of the Systems Sciences And ISSS 2000, International Society for the Systems Sciences, 44th Annual Meeting, July 16-22, 2000, Toronto, Ontario Canada. Article No. 20150 – CD-ROM.
108. Brier, S. (2000): "Cybersemiotics: A Transdisciplinary Framework for Information and Communication Studies," Compendium for Ph. D.-course in Communication and book manuscript. Preliminary version 11, Jan 2000, pp. 280.
109. Brier, S. (2000): "Biosemiotics as a possible bridge between embodiment in cognitive semantics and the motivation," Proceedings of Nordic-Baltic Summer Congress of ISI, June 2000, Imatra, Finland.
110. Brier, S. (2000): “Naturvidenskab og Eksistens” i Hvad er der sket med fisken? Det Økologiske Råd og Multivers Aps. Forlag, 2000, pp. 29-63.
111. Brier, S. (2000): "Konstruktion und Information. Eine semiotische re-entry in Heinz von Foerster’s metaphysische Konstruktion der Kybernetik zweiter Ordnung“ i Beobachtungen des Unbeobachtbaren, Jahraus, Oliver, Nina Ort und Benjamin Marius Schmidt. Velbrück Wissenschaft, Weilerswist 2000, pp. 254-295.
112. Brier, S. (2001). “Cybersemiotics, Biosemiotics and Ecosemiotics”, pp. 7-26 I Tarasti, F, (2001): IST congress paper, Nordic Baltic Summer Inst. For Semiotic and Structural Studies. Ecosemiotics: Studies in Environmental Semiosis, semiotics of Biocybernetic Bodies, Human/too Human/Posthuman. Part IV, June 12-21, 2001, in Imatra, Finland.
113. Combs. A. and Brier, S. (2001): Signs, Information, and Consciousness. SYSTEMS - Journal of Transdisciplinary Systems Science, Vol. 5, Number 1-2, Pp.15-24, 2000; Polish Systems Society, Wroclaw, Poland.
114. Thellefsen, T.L., Brier, S. and Thellefsen, M.L. (2001): “Problems concerning the process of subject analysis and the practice of indexing: A Peircian semiotic and semantic approach toward user oriented needs in document searching,” Semiotica, 144-1/4 (2003), pp.177-218.
115. Brier, S. (2001): ”Cybersemiotics and Umweltslehre”, Semiotica. Special issue on Jakob von Uexküll, 134-1/4, 779-814.
116. Brier, S. (2001): “Ecosemiotics and Cybersemiotics”, Sign System Studies 29.1, 107-120.
117. Brier, S. (2001): “Betydningsdannelse i Kybersemiotisk belysning”, Thellefsen, T. L. (red.). Tegn og betydning – betydningsdannelse i filosofisk, biologisk og semiotisk perspektiv, Akademisk forlag, pp. 141-169.
118. Brier, S. (2001): “Cybersemiotics: A Reconceptualization of the Foundation for Information Science “, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Yearbook. Systems Research 18, 421-427.
119. Brier, S. (2001): “The Three Medias Spheres and the Position of the Sciences in the Knowledge Society”, Evans, R.H., Andersen, A.M. og Sørensen, H. (ed.) the 5Th European Science Education Summer School: Bridging Research Methodology and Research Aims, Danish University of Education, pp.350-367.
120. N. Sriskandarajah, N. and Søren Brier (2001): “Reflexive experiential practices in learning and science”, Foreword, Cybernetics & Human Knowing, vol. 7, No. 4. pp.2-3.
121. Brier, S. (2002): “Intrasemiotics and Cybersemiotics”, Sign System Studies 30.1:113-127.
122. Brier, S. (2002): “Varela’s contribution to the creation of Cybersemiotics: The calculus of self-reference”, ASC-column, Cybernetics & Human Knowing, 9, 2:77-82.
123. Brier, S. (2002): “The five-leveled Cybersemiotic Model of FIS” (Best paper award in its session), Trappl, R. (ed.): “Cybernetics and Systems vol. 1, 2002”, Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies. 1:197-202.
124. Brier, S. (2002): Team 3: Foundation of Information Science : John Collier, Allan Combs, Len Troncale, Gerhard Chrust, Magdalena Kalaidjieva, Søren Brier (coordinator), accepted to the newsletter of the International Federation for Systems Research.
125. Høyen, M. og Brier, S (2002): Alle andre steder end i klasserummet, Bidrag til den populære KVL årsberetning.
126. Brier, S. (2002): Fra Fakta til Fikta. Videnskabsformidlingens og populærvidenskabens kvaliteter og former i underholdningens tidsalder, Akademisk.
127. Brier, S. og Munck, L: (2002):”Perspektiv på anerkendelsen af videns karakter i vor tid og i fremtiden”, Kap. 1.3 i Munck, L et. Al. (2002): Bedre mad gennem viden: Levnedsmiddelcentrets udvikling 1992-2002, LMC, s. 45-59
128. Brier, S. and Bopry, J. (2002): ”Foreword: Hermeneutic Cybernetics”, Cybernetics & Human Knowing, 9:3/4:3-4.
129. Brier, S. (2002): Team 3: Foundation of Information Science : Søren Brier (coordinator), Gerhard Chrust, John Collier, Allan Combs, Magdalena Kalaidjieva, Len Troncale; The Eleventh Fuschl Conversation (April 7 to 12, 2002), Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, Reports, ISB 3 85206 166 0.
130. Brier, S. (2002/2003): “Luhmann Semiotized”, Journal of Sociocybernetics, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2002/2003, pp. 13-22. http://www.unizar.es/sociocybernetics/Journal/dentro.html
131. Brier, S. (2002): "Kosmos, Infos, Semios: En videnskabsteoretisk fremstilling af dem klassiske mekanistiske videnskabs rod i græsk filosofi og brydninger med termodynamikkens og den kybernetiske informationsvidenskabens udvikling af et nyt syn på kontrol og kommunikation uden mening i dyr og maskiner frem til et semiotisk meningsbaseret syn på natur, menneske, maskine, kognition og kommunikationi bio- og kybersemiotik." Kompendium Ph. D.-kursus KVL, IØSL, SLOT, pp.525.
132. Brier, S. (2003): "Information seen as part of the development of living intelligence: the five leveled Cybersemiotic framework for FIS." Entropy: 2003,5, 88-99. http://www.mdpi.org/entropy/list03.htm
133. Brier, S. (2003): ”The integration of second order cybernetics, autopoiesis and biosemiotics”, Cybernetics & Human Knowing, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 106-109. ASC- column.
134. Brier. S. (2003): ”Cybersemiotics and the Question of Semiotic and informational Thresholds”, World Futures, 59: 361-380.
135. Thellefsen, T.L., Brier, S. and Thellefsen, M.L. (2003): “Problems concerning the process of subject analysis and the practice of indexing: A Peircean semiotic and semantic approach toward user oriented needs in document searching,” Semiotica, 144-1/4 (2003), 177-218.
136. Brier, S. (2003): “The Cybersemiotic model of communication: An evolutionary view on the threshold between semiosis and informational exchange.” TripleC 1(1): 71-94. http://triplec.uti.at/articles/tripleC1(1)_Brier.pdf
137. Brier, S. (2003): ”En værre uredelighed – Lomborgsagen videnskabsteoretisk set”, Aktuel Naturvidenskab nr. 2, marts, 2003, pp. 32-34.
138. Brier. S. (2004): “Cybersemiotics and the Problem of the Information-Processing Paradigm as a Candidate for a Unified Science of Information Behind Library and Information Science”, pp.629-657 in Library Trends, Vol. 52, No. 3, Winter 2004.
139. Brier, S. (2004): ”Betydningsdannelse og Eksistens: Om evolution, bevidsthed og erkendelse hos C.S. Peirce” i Semiotiske Undersøgelser, ed. Thellefsen og Dinesen, pp. 32-51. Hans Reitzels forlag. (Solgt til Gyldendals bogklub).
140. Brier, S. (2004): ”Populærvidenskabs, Dannelse og Tro Årgang 2003”, Bogens Verden nr. 3, Juni 2004 , pp.10-17.
141. Brier, S. (2005): Informationsvidenskabsteori, Forlaget Samfundslitteratur. 288 pp.
142. Brier, S. (2005): "The construction of information and communication: A Cybersemiotic re-entry into Heinz von Foerster's metaphysical construction of second order cybernetics" in Semiotica 154-1/4 (2005), 355-399.
143. Brier, S. (2005): ”Developing Biosemiotics into Cybersemiotics” to Brazilian International book. Delivered 18. April 05, approved for publication.
144. Brier, S (2005): "Third Culture: Cybersemiotic's inclusion of a Biosemiotic Theory of Mind”, Axiomathes, 15:211-228.
145. Brier, S, (2005): “Nature and Machine”, pp.1747-1751, Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics, Thomson Gale a part of the Thomson Corporation, Farmington Hills, USA.
146. Brier, S. (2005): "System Science and the Cybersemiotic Model of Communication" Gu, Jifa and Crust, Gerhard (eds.)(2005)IFSR 2005: The New Role of System Sciences For a Knowledge Based Society. Proceedings of the First World Congress of the International Federation for Systems Research, Kobe, Japan, CD-ROM, JAIST Press, ISBN 4-903092-02-X.
147. Brier, S. (2006): Peircean Panentheism and Scientific Mysticism, to a proceeding book from a conference on Peirce’s religious writings in Denver 2003. Delivered and approved.
148. Brier, s. (2006): The foundation of LIS in information science and semiotics, LIBREAS, Issue 4 (Winter 2006).
149. Brier, S. (2006): Informationsvidenskabsteori, Forlaget Samfundslitteratur. Second edition, 352 sider.
150. Brier. S. (2006): “Biosemiotics”, Int. enc. of Language and Linguistics. 2end Ed., 2006, vol. 2, pp. 31-40.
151. Brier. S. (2006): Cybersemiotics: Why Information is not enough, CBS, Copenhagen: Icon, ISBN 87-593-9986-4, Pp. 554. Danish post-doctoral thesis (Habilitation) defended and approved 6. March 2006 at CBS by professors Ole Fogh Kirkeby, Dirk Baecker and John Deely.
152. Brier, S. (2006): “The Cybersemiotic model of communication: An Evolutionary model of the threshold between Semiosis and informational exchange”, Semiotica 158-1/4 (2006), 225-296.
153. Brier, S. (2006): ”Ficta: Remixing generalized symbolic media in the new scientific novel”, Public Understanding of Science 15 (2006) 153-174.
154. Brier, S, (2006): “The necessity of Trans-Scientific Frameworks for doing Interdisciplinary Research”, Kybernetes special issue for Felix Geyer 2006 no. 3-4: 403-425.
155. Brier, S, (2006): ”Populærvidenskab, videnskabsteori og filosofi”, Bogens Verden 1/2006: 24-31.
156. Brier, S. (2006): ”Luhmann og den manglende korporligt situerede”, Tække, Jesper (ed.) Luhmann - Epistemologi, anvendelse og nyorientering. Forlaget Emile. Pp. 215-246.
157. Brier, S. (2007): ”Etologi og semiotik”, Livstegn, , Encyklopædi semiotic.dk, Haase og søn, pp. 62-65.
158. Brier, S. (2007): ”Informationsteori og semiotik”, Livstegn, Encyklopædi semiotic.dk, Haase og søn, pp.114-116.
159. Brier, S. (2007): ”Kybersemiotik”, Livstegn, Encyklopædi semiotic.dk, Haase og søn, 147-149.
160. Brier, S. (2007): ”Mystik og semiotik”, Livstegn,
161. Brier, S. (2007): ”Neurosemiotik”, Livstegn, Encyklopædi semiotic.dk, Haase og søn, pp. 219-223..
162. Emmeche, C. og Brier, S.(2007): ”Uexküll, Jakob Johan von” (2007), Livstegn, Encyklopædi semiotic.dk , Haase of søn. Pp. 322-326.
163. Brier, S., Sørensen, B. og Thellefsen, T. (2007):”Videnskabelig viden”, Livstegn, Encyklopædi semiotic.dk, Haase og søn, pp.331-334.
164. Brier, S. (2007): “The Cybersemiotic framework as a means to conceptualize the difference between computing and semiosis” proceedings E-CAP 2005 Västeraas Universitet, Sverige, Selected to a book. Delivered and accepted.
165. Brier, S. (2007): “A Paradigm for Biosemiotics”, Paper to the first issue of the new electronic semiotic journal Signs. Delivered.
166. Brier, S. (2006): “Systemic Problems in the Post-modern Power-Struggle between the Generalized Media in the Agora: The Lomborg Case of Environmental Science and Politics”, Systems Research. Volume 23, Issue 5 , Pages 667 – 684.
167. Brier, S. (2006): “The Missing Person: Problems in Reflecting Luhmannian Empirical Systemic Research Results: Back into a Democratic Society of Embodied, Juridical, Political and Ethical Responsible Subjects”. Abstract published on paper, article on CD-ROM. In ISA - International Sociological Association, XVIth World Congress of Sociology, The Quality of Social Existence in a Globalizing World, Durban, South Africa, July 23-29, 2006 - the session Luhmann Applied in Research Committee 51 on Sociocybernetics symposium.
168. Brier, S. (2007): ”Meaning and Science: Konrad Lorenz, Thomas Sebeok and beyond”, Deely, John, Kull, Kalevi and Petrilli, Susan (eds.): Semiotics Continues To Astonish": The Intellectual Heritage of Thomas Albert Sebeok, Tartu University Press, Semiotics series written and delivered.
169. Brier, S. (2007): “Bateson and Peirce on the pattern that connects and the sacred’”, Hoffmeyer, J. (ed.)(2008): Gregory Bateson as a precursor for biosemiotic thinking, Springer Book Series on Biosemiotics, London: Springer Verlag.
170. Brier, S. (2007): ”De nye billedmæssige og historiske overblik i videnskab, natur og semiotik i årets faglitteratur 2006”, Bogens Verden, 1/2007 Pp. 20-28.
171. Brier, S. (2007): “Applying Luhmann’s system theory as part of a transdisciplinary frame for communication science”, Cybernetics & Human Knowing, Vol. 14, no. 2-3. Delivered and accepted. 43 pages.
172. Brier, S. (2008b):“A Paradigm for Biosemiotics”, Signs 2008, pp. 30-81. http://vip.db.dk/signs/artikler/Brier%20(2008)%20the%20paradigm%20of%20peircean%20biosemiotics.pdf