Organisms and Personal Identity: Individuation and the Work of David Wiggins

ISBN-13: 9780367358617 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 238 str.

A. M. Ferner

Opis

David Wiggins’s contribution to metaphysics, logic and ethics has been widely recognized, but the connections between his work and recent issues in the philosophy of biology have been overlooked. This study demonstrates how Wiggins’s work can contribute to, as well as benefit from, contemporary debate in this field.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. An Intellectual Microcosm  2. D  3. Natural Substances and Artefacts  4. The Human Being Theory  5. A Genealogy of the Person Concept  6. Biological Models  7. Reduction and Emergence  8. Aristotelian Organisms  9. Brain Transplantation  10. Conclusion  11. Appendix: A History of the Brain Transplantation Story

O autorze

Adam M. Ferner has worked in academic philosophy in France and the UK, and in schools and youth centres around London. He has written two books – Think Differently (2018) and Organisms and Personal Identity (2016) – and has two more on the way. He has been a regular contributor to philosophy journals and magazines including The Philosophy Magazine. Adam currently works at the Royal Institute of Philosophy in London.