| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 237 pages) |
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History and philosophy of biology |
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History and philosophy of biology.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Personal identity; The philosophy of biology; Prospectus; Overview of texts; 1 An intellectual microcosm; 1 Pre-history; 2 Descriptive metaphysics; 3 Heritable defects; 4 Persisting problems; 2 D; 1 The bare bones of identity; 2 The 'epistemology of the relation'; 3 Principles of individuation; 4 Sortal identity and relative identity; 5 A metaphysical or a psychological thesis?; 3 Natural substances and artefacts; 1 The semantics of natural kind words; 2 Artefact words and puzzles |
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3 The existence of artefacts?4 The substancehood of artefacts; 5 Substance; 4 The Human Being Theory; 1 Neo-Lockean or animalist?; 2 Quasi-memory; 3 Against an 'animalist' reading; 4 Conceptual consilience: three arguments; 5 A genealogy of the person concept; 1 The notion of a person; 2 'Person' as a mask; 3 'Person' as a legal fact; 4 'Person' as moral fact and metaphysical entity; 5 Critique of the semantic analysis; 6 Biological models; 1 Limits of living activity; 2 A simple-minded worry?; 3 'Pluralism' and essentialism; 7 Reduction and emergence; 1 The reduction of the organism |
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2 'Reductionism' and 'emergence'3 An emergentist reading?; 4 Reasons for doubt; 8 Aristotelian organisms; 1 Organic unities; 2 Aristotelian biology; 3 Teleology; 4 Ontological dependence; 5 Persistence conditions of organic substances; 9 Brain transplantation; 1 Changing perspectives; 2 Methodological concerns; 3 A suppressed assumption; 4 Organic unity (again); 5 A shift in metaphysical focus: 'human persons as artefacts?'; 6 Final worries and a recommendation for Wiggins; Conclusion; Appendix: a history of the brain transplantation story; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 26, 2016) |
| Subject |
Wiggins, David, 1933-
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| SUBJECT |
Wiggins, David, 1933- fast |
| Subject |
Identity (Philosophical concept)
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Biology -- Philosophy.
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identity.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Biology -- Philosophy
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Identity (Philosophical concept)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317245704 |
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1317245709 |
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9781317245698 |
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1317245695 |
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9781317245681 |
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1317245687 |
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