Individuals Across the Sciences

Individuals Across the Sciences
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Country
United States
Published
14 January 2016
Pages
424
ISBN
9780199382514

Individuals Across the Sciences

What are individuals? How can they be identified? These are crucial questions for philosophers and scientists alike. Criteria of individuality seem to differ markedly between metaphysics and the empirical sciences - and this might well explain why no work has hitherto attempted to relate the contributions of metaphysics, physics and biology on this question. This timely volume brings together various strands of research into ‘individuality’, examining how different sciences handle the issue, and reflecting on how this scientific work relates to metaphysical concerns. The collection makes a major contribution to clarifying and overcoming obstacles to the construction of a general conception of the individual adequate for both physics and biology, and perhaps even beyond.

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