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Individuals across the sciences / edited by Alexandre Guay and Thomas Pradeu.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Individuality.
- Individual differences.
- Self.
- Self (Philosophy).
- Ego (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 405 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Knowing what individuals are and how they can be identified is a crucial question for both philosophers and scientists. This volume explores how different sciences handle the issue of understanding individuality, as well as reflecting on how this scientific work relates to metaphysics itself.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Progressive steps toward a unified conception of individuality across the sciences / Alexandre Guay and Thomas Pradeu
- Metaphysical and logical foundations to individuality. Why individuality matters / Stéphane Chauvier ; A foreword to E.J. Lowe's chapter / Alexander Bird ; Non-individuals / E.J. Lowe ; Individuality, quantum physics, and a metaphysics of nonindividuals : the role of the formal / Décio Krause and Jonas R. Becker Arenhart
- Puzzles about individuals in biology and physics. Individuality and life cycles / Peter Godfrey-Smith ; What biofilms can teach us about individuality / Marc Ereshefsky and Makmiller Pedroso ; Cell and body : individuals in stem cell biology / Melinda Bonnie Fagan ; Collective individuals : parallels between joint action and biological individuality / Cédric Paternotte ; On the emergence of individuals in physics / Simon Saunders ; Are there individuals in physics, and if so, what are they? / James Ladyman ; Minimal structural essentialism : why physics doesn't care which is which / David Glick ; Bohm's approach and individuality / Paavo Pylkkänen, Basil J. Hiley, and Ilkka Pättiniemi ; Branch-relative identity / Christina Conroy
- Beyond disciplinary borders. The metaphysics of individuality and the sciences / Matteo Morganti ; The biological and the mereological : metaphysical implications of the individuality thesis / Matthew H. Haber ; To be continued : the genidentity of physical and biological processes / Alexandre Guay and Thomas Pradeu ; Experimental realization of individuality / Ruey-Lin Chen ; Eliminating objects across the sciences / Steven French.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-049381-X
- 0-19-938253-0
- 0-19-938252-2
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