Susan Petrilli develops the notion of semioethics by grounding it in a specific conception of the human being: the human as semiotic animal. This expression, introduced in the volume Semiotic Animal co-authored with John Deely and Augusto Ponzio, designates a life form endowed not only with the capacity for semiosis, but with a distinctive aptitude for metasemiosis—the ability to reflect on…
