Søren Brier

Presentation

I am an interdisciplinary researcher that has moved from an MA in biology (ecology and behavioral sciences) over a gold medal thesis in psychology (philosophy of ethology) both Copenhagen. U. through a PhD in philosophy of information sciences (Roskilde U.) after 10 year teaching at the Royal School of Library and Information science to a Habilitat in Cybersemiotics combining the natural, life, social and technical sciences with the humanities though an integration of a Peircean biosemiotic and Luhmann''s autopoietic system science into a transdisciplinary framework (Copenhagen Business School).

Cybersemiotics is now described in several international encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks in linguistics, semiotics, Informations science, cybernetics and system science.

I created an interdisciplinary journal in the area called "Cybernetics & Human Knowing" in 1992 and have been editor in chief ever since.

Primary research areas

• Semiotics of information, cognitive, life and communication sciences
• Interdisciplinarity. transdisciplinarity and methodology
• Philosophy of the  natural, life, social, information, cognitive, communication and system sciences and humanities
• Second order cybernetics, systems and autopoiesis theory
• Cybersemiotics and biosemiotics

Courses

Teaches:

• IMK, Philosophy of Science – lectures and tutorials
• EB, Philosophy of Science and Methodology - lectures

Course responsible for:

• IMK og EOK, Philosophy of Science
• IMK, Methodology
• EB, Philosophy of Science and Methodology
• HA MAT, Philosophy of Science

Supervision

1. Philosophy of Science and Methodology
   
2. Interdisciplinarity
   
3. Semiotics and systems theory in cognition and communication
   
4. Cybersemiotics
   
5. The relationship between quantitative and qualitative methods and triangulation
   
6. The relationship between science, politics and religion, cultural and business rationality
   7  CSR, spirituality and organisational communication