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Biological Identity: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology

Biological Identity: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology

Meincke, Anne Sophie
Dupré, John

Hardcover

Series: History and Philosophy of Biology

PhilosophyBiologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138479187
ISBN13: 9781138479180
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 26 2020
Pages: 286
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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