关于生物个性的观点

IF 3.2 1区哲学 Q1 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI:10.1086/728048

Samir Okasha

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On the very idea of biological individuality

The burgeoning debate over biological individuality raises deep issues, philosophical and scientific, but suffers from pervasive conceptual unclarity. This paper offers a diagnosis of what has gone wrong. It is argued that the problem of biological individuality, as it is often formulated in the literature, rests on a category mistake. The mistake is to think that the expression “biological individual” is a sortal , when in fact it is not. This diagnosis sheds light on a number of otherwise puzzling aspects of the debate.

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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 管理科学-科学史与科学哲学

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science encourages the application of philosophical techniques to issues raised by the natural and human sciences. These include general questions of scientific knowledge and objectivity, as well as more particular problems arising within specific disciplines. Topics currently being discussed in the journal include: causation, the logic of natural selection, the interpretation of quantum mechanics, the direction of time, probability, confirmation, foundations of mathematics, supertasks and the theory of emotion.