Biological individuality /

A guidebook to biological individuality, aiming to take readers through contemporary philosophical territory and to identify possible future destinations.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McConwell, Alison K. (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Series:Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of biology.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:A guidebook to biological individuality, aiming to take readers through contemporary philosophical territory and to identify possible future destinations.
Item Description:This Element develops a view about biological individuality's value in two ways: while biological individuality matters for its theoretical and methodological roles in the production of scientific knowledge, its historical use in promoting the politics of social ideologies concerning progress and perfection of humanity's evolutionary future must not be ignored. Recent trends in biological individuality are analyzed and set against the history of evolutionary thought drawing from the early twentieth century.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781108942775
1108942776
DOI:10.1017/9781108942775