Individuation, process, and scientific practices
by BUENO, OTAVIO Chen, Ruey-lin Fagan, Melinda Bonnie
This text concerns a classic philosophical question: 'What things count as individuals?' Rather than addressing it from the perspective of analytic metaphysics, the volume proposes to reformulate and answer it from the perspective of scientific practices.
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- Full title :Individuation, process, and scientific practices / edited by Otávio Bueno, Ruey-lin Chen, Melinda B. Fagan.
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This text concerns a classic philosophical question: 'What things count as individuals?' Rather than addressing it from the perspective of analytic metaphysics, the volume proposes to reformulate and answer it from the perspective of scientific practices.
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- Publication Date:2018
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2018
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- Description:1 online resource
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- ISBN:9780190636845, 019063684X, 9780190636821, 0190636823, 9780190636838, 0190636831
- oclc:on1038484629
- LC Classification:BD395.5
- Dewey Decimal:111
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments; Contributors; 1 Individuation, Process, and Scientific Practices; Part I Aspects of Individuation: Metaphysical and Processual; 2 Processes, Organisms, Kinds, and the Inevitability of Pluralism; 3 Individuating Processes; 4 Individuating Part-Whole Relations in the Biological World; Part II Experimental Practices of Individuation; 5 Ask Not "What Is an Individual?"; 6 Individuality, Organisms, and Cell Differentiation; 7 Individuation of Developmental Systems: A Reproducer Perspective; 8 Individuation, Individuality, and Experimental Practice in Developmental Biology; 9 Experimental Individuation: Creation and Presentation; 10 Emergent Quasiparticles: Or, How to Get a Rich Physics from a Sober Metaphysics; Part III Individuation in Philosophical Approaches to Science: Realism, Anti-Realism, Environmentalism; 11 Can Quantum Objects Be Tracked?; 12 Retail Realism, the Individuation of Theoretical Entities, and the Case of the Muriatic Radical; 13 Is Aldo Leopold's "Land Community" an Individual?; Index
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