Organismal Superposition and Death

IF 0.8 4区医学 Q2 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine Pub Date : 2024-02-20 DOI:10.1353/pbm.2024.a919708

Michael Nair-Collins

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Abstract

ABSTRACT:

Organismal superposition holds that the same individual both is and is not an organism, as a consequence of organismal pluralism. When coupled with the assumption that death is the cessation of an organism, this entails that there is no unique answer as to whether brain death is biological death. This essay argues that concerns about organismal pluralism and superposition do not undermine a theory of biological death, nor entail any metaphysical indeterminacy about the biological vital status of a brain-dead individual.

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有机体叠加与死亡

摘要：有机体叠加认为，作为有机体多元论的结果，同一个体既是有机体，又不是有机体。如果再加上 "死亡是有机体的终止 "这一假设，那么脑死亡是否就是生物死亡就没有唯一的答案了。本文认为，对有机体多元论和叠加的担忧并不会破坏生物死亡理论，也不会导致脑死亡个体的生物生命状态具有任何形而上学的不确定性。

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Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 医学-科学史与科学哲学

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1.40

自引率

20.00%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, an interdisciplinary scholarly journal whose readers include biologists, physicians, students, and scholars, publishes essays that place important biological or medical subjects in broader scientific, social, or humanistic contexts. These essays span a wide range of subjects, from biomedical topics such as neurobiology, genetics, and evolution, to topics in ethics, history, philosophy, and medical education and practice. The editors encourage an informal style that has literary merit and that preserves the warmth, excitement, and color of the biological and medical sciences.

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