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
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Cambridge [u.a.]
Cambridge Univ. Press
1999
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| Edition: | 1. publ. |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology
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| Summary: | "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 Wilson presents a new theory of biological individuality that addresses problems that cannot be solved by either field alone."--BOOK JACKET "This is a book of interest to philosophers of biology, metaphysicians, and biologists."--BOOK JACKET |
| Physical Description: | XII, 137 S. |
| ISBN: | 0521624258 |
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| adam_text | BIOLOGICAL INDIVIDUALITY THE IDENTITY AND PERSISTENCE OF LIVING ENTITIES
JACK WILSON WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT
DARMSTAD FACHBERPCH 10 * BIOLOGIE *-BIBLIOTHEK * SCHNITTSPAHNSTRABE 10
D-6 42 8 7 DARMSTADT CAMBRIDGE LM/ _ UNIVERSITY PRESS ...... CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PAGE XI 1 BEYOND HORSES AND OAK TREES: A NEW THEORY OF
INDIVIDUATION ? FOR LIVING ENTITIES 1 1.1 INTRODUCTION , 1 1.2 THE
MEANING OF A LIFE 2 1.3 THE POVERTY OF EXAMPLES 5 1.4 IMAGINARY
EXAMPLES AND CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS 9 1.5 WHAT IS IT? 16 2 THE BIOLOGICAL
AND PHILOSOPHICAL ROOTS OF INDIVIDUALITY 22 2.1 WHY BIOLOGISTS (SHOULD)
CARE ABOUT INDIVIDUALITY 22 2.2 PHILOSOPHERS ON LIVING ENTITIES 27 2.3
NATURAL KINDS AND SUBSTANTIAL KINDS 35 2.4 PATTERNS AND NATURAL KINDS 42
3 INDIVIDUALITY AND EQUIVOCATION 48 3.1 PARADIGM INDIVIDUALS: THE HIGHER
ANIMALS 48 3.2 OTHER POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS 56 3.3 THE PROPOSED SOLUTION -
59 4 THE NECESSITY OF BIOLOGICAL ORIGIN AND SUBSTANTIAL KINDS 69 4.1 A
VALID ARGUMENT FOR SORTAL ESSENTIALISM 69 4.2 THE NECESSITY OF
BIOLOGICAL ORIGIN 72 4.3 SEX 80 4.4 SPECIES MEMBERSHIP AND THE NECESSITY
OF GENEALOGY 82 5 GENERATION AND CORRUPTION 86 5.1 GENETIC INDIVIDUALS
86 5.2 FUNCTIONAL INDIVIDUALS 89 5.3 DEVELOPMENTAL INDIVIDUALS 99 5.4
RAISING THE DEAD 101 IX CONTENTS 6 PERSONAL IDENTITY NATURALIZED: OUR
BODIES, OUR SELVES 6.1 HUMAN BEINGS AS BIOLOGICAL ENTITIES 6.2 IS A
PERSON A HUMAN BEING? 6.3 CONCLUSIONS APPENDIX. IDENTITY AND SORTALS:
WHY RELATIVE IDENTITY IS SELF-CONTRADICTORY NOTES. REFERENCES INDEX 105
105 111 117 119 127 131 135
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