Cargando…
Organisms and personal identity : individuation and the work of David Wiggins /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge,
2016.
|
| Colección: | History and philosophy of biology.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Personal identity; The philosophy of biology; Prospectus; Overview of texts; 1 An intellectual microcosm; 1 Pre-history; 2 Descriptive metaphysics; 3 Heritable defects; 4 Persisting problems; 2 D; 1 The bare bones of identity; 2 The 'epistemology of the relation'; 3 Principles of individuation; 4 Sortal identity and relative identity; 5 A metaphysical or a psychological thesis?; 3 Natural substances and artefacts; 1 The semantics of natural kind words; 2 Artefact words and puzzles.
- 3 The existence of artefacts?4 The substancehood of artefacts; 5 Substance; 4 The Human Being Theory; 1 Neo-Lockean or animalist?; 2 Quasi-memory; 3 Against an 'animalist' reading; 4 Conceptual consilience: three arguments; 5 A genealogy of the person concept; 1 The notion of a person; 2 'Person' as a mask; 3 'Person' as a legal fact; 4 'Person' as moral fact and metaphysical entity; 5 Critique of the semantic analysis; 6 Biological models; 1 Limits of living activity; 2 A simple-minded worry?; 3 'Pluralism' and essentialism; 7 Reduction and emergence; 1 The reduction of the organism.
- 2 'Reductionism' and 'emergence'3 An emergentist reading?; 4 Reasons for doubt; 8 Aristotelian organisms; 1 Organic unities; 2 Aristotelian biology; 3 Teleology; 4 Ontological dependence; 5 Persistence conditions of organic substances; 9 Brain transplantation; 1 Changing perspectives; 2 Methodological concerns; 3 A suppressed assumption; 4 Organic unity (again); 5 A shift in metaphysical focus: 'human persons as artefacts?'; 6 Final worries and a recommendation for Wiggins; Conclusion; Appendix: a history of the brain transplantation story; Index.