Abstract
Humans differ from other organism by his specific ability of understanding that they not only use signs (as all the organisms, including humans) but also that they know they use signs, i.e. they understand the nature of signs. This is the main thesis of american semiotician and philosopher John Deely, who because of this ability calls humans as "semiotic animals".
Following this specific view on human constitution, he presents the history of philosophy as the history of inquiring this constitution and its consequences, and moreover, he claims that the existence of whole the philosophy is the product of this constitution. In this position, Deely connects biological (or biosemiotical) views on human nature with the specific explanation of history of philosophy, which is, moreover, accompanied by the attempt of the theoretical explanation of this transdisciplinarity by the general semiotics.
Therefore, the workshop is dedicated to studies of Deely's work in a transdisciplinary perspective of humanities.