Individuation, process, and scientific practices

Individuation, process, and scientific practices / edited by Otávio Bueno, Ruey-lin Chen, Melinda B. Fagan.

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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Other Authors: Bueno, Otávio (Editor), Chen, Ruey-lin (Editor), Fagan, Melinda Bonnie (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Haecceity (Philosophy)
Individuation (Philosophy)
Philosophy and science.
Science > Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Philosophy and science
Science > Philosophy
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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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