Biological Individuality

Name: Biological Individuality
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521036887
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The Identity and Persistence of Living Entities

Autor: Jack Wilson

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Cambridge University Press

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What makes a biological entity an individual? Jack Wilson shows that past philosophers have failed t...

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Autor

Jack Wilson

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2007

Stránek

152

EAN

9780521036887

ISBN

0521036887

Enbook ID

02019516

Vydavatel

Cambridge University Press

Hmotnost

239

Rozměry

153 x 229 x 10

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What makes a biological entity an individual? Jack Wilson shows that past philosophers have failed to explicate the conditions an entity must satisfy to be a living individual. He explores the reason for this failure and explains why we should limit ourselves to examples involving real organisms rather than thought experiments. This book explores and resolves paradoxes that arise when one applies past notions of individuality to biological examples beyond the conventional range and presents an analysis of identity and persistence. The book's main purpose is to bring together two lines of research, theoretical biology and metaphysics, which have dealt with the same subject in isolation from one another. Wilson explains an alternative theory about biological individuality which solves problems which cannot be addressed by either field alone. He presents a more fine-grained vocabulary of individuation based on diverse kinds of living things, allowing him to clarify previously muddled disputes about individuality in biology.

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