BIOLOGICAL INDIVIDUALITY by Wilson, Jack ISBN 0521624258
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[edit] BIOLOGICAL INDIVIDUALITY
Wilson resolves paradoxes that arise when one applies past notions of individuality to biological examples.
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 a new 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 a new 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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[edit] Title
BIOLOGICAL INDIVIDUALITY
[edit] Author
Wilson, Jack
[edit] ISBN
0521624258
[edit] Published
28/08/1999
[edit] Publisher
Cambridge University Press
[edit] Binding
hardback
[edit] Retail Price
45 (GBP)
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44.1 (GBP)
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