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Biological Identity
Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology
Taschenbuch von Anne Sophie Meincke (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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

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

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780367495039
ISBN-10: 0367495031
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Meincke, Anne Sophie
Dupré, John
Hersteller: Taylor & Francis
Maße: 234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Anne Sophie Meincke (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.04.2022
Gewicht: 0,431 kg
Artikel-ID: 126742514
Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780367495039
ISBN-10: 0367495031
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Meincke, Anne Sophie
Dupré, John
Hersteller: Taylor & Francis
Maße: 234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Anne Sophie Meincke (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.04.2022
Gewicht: 0,431 kg
Artikel-ID: 126742514
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