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Biological Identity - Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology (Paperback)
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Biological Identity - Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology (Paperback)
Series: History and Philosophy of Biology
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Analytic metaphysics has recently discovered biology as a means of
grounding metaphysical theories. This has resulted in long-standing
metaphysical puzzles, such as the problems of personal identity and
material constitution, being increasingly addressed by appeal to a
biological understanding of identity. This development within
metaphysics is in significant tension with the growing tendency
amongst philosophers of biology to regard biological identity as a
deep puzzle in its own right, especially following recent advances
in our understanding of symbiosis, the evolution of multi-cellular
organisms and the inherently dynamical character of living systems.
Moreover, and building on these biological insights, the broadly
substance ontological framework of metaphysical theories of
biological identity appears problematic to a growing number of
philosophers of biology who invoke process ontology instead. This
volume addresses this tension, exploring to what extent it can be
dissolved. For this purpose, the volume presents the first
selection of essays exclusively focused on biological identity and
written by experts in metaphysics, the philosophy of biology and
biology. The resulting cross-disciplinary dialogue paves the way
for a convincing account of biological identity that is both
metaphysically constructive and scientifically informed, and will
be of interest to metaphysicians, philosophers of biology and
theoretical biologists.
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