Death : perspectives from the philosophy of biology / Philippe Huneman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huneman, Philippe, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biology--Philosophy.

Biology.

Death.

Evolution (Biology)--Philosophy.

Evolution (Biology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume)

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction. Why a book about biological death in philosophy? What to find in it?

Chapter 2. How Late 18th-Century Physiologists Understood the Living World and their task

Chapter 3. Bichats theories and their genealogy

Chapter 4. Physiology in Bichats Physiological Researches on Life and Death

Chapter 5. Bichats experimental physiology in the Recherches (part 2): death as an epistemic facilitator

Chapter 6. Life and Death in Experimental Physiology after Bichat

Chapter 7. A providentialist metaphysics and the traditional economics of death : mortality and individuality

Chapter 8. The evolutionary synthesis view of death: Peter Medawar, George C. Williams and the riddles of senescence

Chapter 9 - Epistemology of death (1) : goals and evidences

Chapter 10. Epistemology of death (2): experiments, tests and mechanisms

Chapter 11. Ontology. The economics of death. and its trade-offs

Chapter 12. Ontology (2). Death programs and their discontents

Chapter 13. Ontology (3). The case(s) for programs: Altruistic suicide, quasi-programs and smurfs

Chapter 14. Death is a social issue

Chapter 15. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

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Other Format:

Print version: HUNEMAN, PHILIPPE. DEATH.

ISBN:

9783031144172

3031144171

Publisher Number:

99993106159

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Restricted for use by site license.