Individuals across the sciences

Individuals across the sciences

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Other Authors : Guay Alexandre (Éditeur scientifique), Pradeu Thomas (Éditeur scientifique)
Format : Book
Language : anglais
Title statement : Individuals across the sciences / edited by Alexandre Guay and Thomas Pradeu
Published : Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University Press , cop. 2016
Physical Description : 1 vol. (XII-405 p.)
Subjects :
Philosophie des sciences
Métaphysique
Biologie > Philosophie
Physique > Philosophie
Individualité
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  • Chapter 1 : Introduction : Progressive steps toward a unified conception of individuality across the sciences / Alexandre Guay and Thomas Pradeu
  • Part I- Metaphysical and logical foundations to individuality
  • Chapter 2 : Why individuality matters / Stéphane Chauvier
  • A foreword to E. J. Lowe's chapter / Alexander Bird
  • Chapter 3 : Non-individuals / E. J. Lowe
  • Chapter 4 : Individuality, quantum physics, and a metaphysics of nonindividuals : the role of the formal / Décio Krause and Jonas R. Becker Arenhart
  • Part II- Puzzles about individuals in biology and physics
  • Chapter 5 : Individuality and life cycles / Peter Godfrey-Smith
  • Chapter 6 : What biofilms can teach us about individuality / Marc Ereshefsky and Makmiller Pedroso
  • Chapter 7 : Cell and body : individuals in stem cell biology / Melinda Bonnie Fagan
  • Chapter 8 : Collective individuals : parallels between joint action and biological individuality / Cédric Paternotte
  • Chapter 9 : On the emergence of individuals in physics / Simon Saunders
  • Chapter 10 : Are there individuals in physics, and if so, what are they? / James Ladyman
  • Chapter 11 : Minimal structural essentialism : why physics doesn't care which is which / David Glick
  • Chapter 12 : Bohm's approach and individuality / Paavo Pylkkänen, Basil J. Hiley, and Ilkka Pättiniemi
  • Chapter 13 : Branch-relative identity / Christina Conroy
  • Part III- Beyond disciplinary borders
  • Chapter 14 : The metaphysics of individuality and the sciences / Matteo Morganti
  • Chapter 15 : The biological and the mereological : metaphysical implications of the individuality thesis / Matthew H. Haber
  • Chapter 16 : To be continued : the genidentity of physical and biological processes / Alexandre Guay and Thomas Pradeu
  • Chapter 17 : Experimental realization of individuality / Ruey-Lin Chen
  • Chapter 18 : Eliminating objects across the sciences / Steven French