Biological individuality : the identity and persistence of living entities /

"In this book, Jack Wilson brings together two lines of research, theoretical biology and analytic metaphysics, that have dealt with the individuation of living entities in virtual isolation from one another.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilson, Jack, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Colección:Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology.
Temas:
Biology > Philosophy.
Individuality.
Biologie > Philosophie.
Individualité.
NATURE > Reference.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > General.
Philosophie
Biologie
Individualität
Individu (philosophie)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Beyond Horses and Oak Trees: A New Theory of Individuation for Living Entities
  • 2. The Biological and Philosophical Roots of Individuality
  • 3. Individuality and Equivocation.
  • 4. The Necessity of Biological Origin and Substantial Kinds
  • 5. Generation and Corruption
  • 6. Personal Identity Naturalized: Our Bodies, Our Selves
  • App. Identity and Sortals: Why Relative Identity Is.

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