Biological Identity: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology (History and Philosophy of Biology)

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Series Editor’s Foreword
Foreword
Acknowledgements
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: Towards a Scientifically Informed theory of Personal Identity
Index

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