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Biological Individuality - The Identity and Persistence of Living Entities (Paperback)
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Biological Individuality - The Identity and Persistence of Living Entities (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
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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 an 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 an alternative 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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