Biological Identity (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology
Redaktion: Meincke, Anne Sophie; Dupré, John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book investigates the question of biological identity from the perspectives of metaphysics and the philosophy of biology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351066365
• Artikelnr.: 59934408

Autorenporträt

Anne Sophie Meincke is a Senior Research Fellow at the Philosophy Department of the University of Vienna. She works on metaphysics, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind and action and their respective intersections. Her recent publications include the article "Autopoiesis, Biological Autonomy and the Process View of Life" (2019) and the edited volume Dispositionalism: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science (2020). John Dupré is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Director of the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences (Egenis) at the University of Exeter. His main field of expertise is the philosophy of biology, but he also has a longstanding interest in metaphysics. His recent publications include Processes of Life (2012); and Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology (2018), co-edited with Daniel Nicholson.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Biological Identity: Why Metaphysicians and Philosophers of Biology
Should Talk
to One Another
2. Siphonophores: A Metaphysical Case Study
3. Biological Individuals as 'Weak Individuals' and their Identity:
Exploring a Radical Hypothesis in the Metaphysics of Science
4. What is the Problem of Biological Individuality?
5. The Role of Individuality in the Origin of Life
6. The Being of Living Beings: Foundationalist Materialism versus
Hylomorphism
7. The Origins and Evolution of Animal Identity
8. Processes within Processes: A Dynamic Account of Living Beings and its
Implications for Understanding the Human Individual
9. Activity, Process, Continuant, Substance, Organism
10.Diachronic Identity in Complex Life Cycles: An Organisational
Perspective
11. Pregnancy and Biological Identity
12. Processual Individuals and Moral Responsibility
13. The Nature of Persons and the Nature of Animals
14. Processual Animalism