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Organisms and personal identity

por Ferner, A. M.

Series: History and philosophy of biology Publicado por : Routlege (New York) Detalles físicos: 237 páginas ISBN:9781317245704; 9781317245698.

Tema(s): Wiggins, David -- 1933- | Identidad (Filosofía) | Biología -- Filosofía | Filosofía moderna

Año : 2016

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Tipo de ítem	Ubicación actual	Colección	Signatura	Copia número	Estado	Fecha de vencimiento	Código de barras	Reserva de ítems
Libro	Claustro 2do piso	Libro	192 F364o (Navegar estantería)	Ej.1	Disponible		100154545

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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.

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.

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.

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