Abstract The interdisciplinary grasp of semiotics makes it a good window into how humanities-based research programs deal with the issues of specific theoretical commitments, raising the stakes on how to do theory in a setting of disparity of approaches and methods. The particular case of biosemiotics as a naturalized instance of semiotics is used as a specific example of an interdisciplinary combination of theory and scientific practice to address the necessity of integrating both external methodological elements and scientific discoveries with a theory capable of giving both of these a valid connotation within the discipline. The main claim of the article will be that integrating different methods in humanities-based research programs such as semiotics creates a problematic picture for metatheoretical commitments, but examining this in light of metatheory itself can produce more robust theoretical positions within the humanities.

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人文学科的元理论承诺

摘要符号学的跨学科掌握使其成为了解基于人文的研究计划如何处理特定的理论承诺问题的一个很好的窗口，从而在方法和方法之间存在差异的情况下增加了如何进行理论研究的风险。生物符号学的特殊情况作为符号学的自然实例，被用作理论和科学实践的跨学科组合的具体示例，以解决将外部方法论要素和科学发现与能够使这两种方法都有效的理论相结合的必要性学科内的内涵。本文的主要主张是，将不同的方法集成到基于人文的研究计划（例如符号学）中，会为元理论的承诺带来问题，