1st Edition
Biological Identity Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology
1. Biological Identity: Why Metaphysicians and Philosophers of Biology Should Talk
to One Another
Anne Sophie Meincke & John Dupré
2. Siphonophores: A Metaphysical Case Study
David S. Oderberg
3. Biological Individuals as ‘Weak Individuals’ and their Identity: Exploring a Radical Hypothesis in the Metaphysics of Science
Philippe Huneman
4. What is the Problem of Biological Individuality?
Eric T. Olson
5. The Role of Individuality in the Origin of Life
Alvaro Moreno
6. The Being of Living Beings: Foundationalist Materialism versus Hylomorphism
Denis Walsh & Kayla Wiebe
7. The Origins and Evolution of Animal Identity
Stuart A. Newman
8. Processes within Processes: A Dynamic Account of Living Beings and its Implications for Understanding the Human Individual
John Dupré
9. Activity, Process, Continuant, Substance, Organism
David Wiggins
10.Diachronic Identity in Complex Life Cycles: An Organisational Perspective
James DiFrisco & Matteo Mossio
11. Pregnancy and Biological Identity
Elselijn Kingma
12. Processual Individuals and Moral Responsibility
Adam Ferner
13. The Nature of Persons and the Nature of Animals
Paul F. Snowdon
14. Processual Animalism
Anne Sophie Meincke
Biography
Anne Sophie Meincke is a Senior Research Fellow at the Philosophy Department of the University of Vienna. She works on metaphysics, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind and action and their respective intersections. Her recent publications include the article "Autopoiesis, Biological Autonomy and the Process View of Life" (2019) and the edited volume Dispositionalism: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science (2020).
John Dupré is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Director of the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences (Egenis) at the University of Exeter. His main field of expertise is the philosophy of biology, but he also has a longstanding interest in metaphysics. His recent publications include Processes of Life (2012); and Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology (2018), co-edited with Daniel Nicholson.
