The units of life : kinds of individual in biology /

In 'The Units of Life', Ellen Clarke argues that our way of conceptualizing living things - of understanding the living world as carved up into numerous separate chunks - is best understood as idealization. This idealization serves valuable pragmatic and theoretical purposes, but stands as...

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Kinds of individual in biology
1. Verfasser:
Hammond, Ellen Clarke
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Zusammenfassung:
In 'The Units of Life', Ellen Clarke argues that our way of conceptualizing living things - of understanding the living world as carved up into numerous separate chunks - is best understood as idealization. This idealization serves valuable pragmatic and theoretical purposes, but stands as a distortion nonetheless of the more messy and variable reality.
Umfang:
1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color).
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-194800-4
0-19-267145-6
Schlagworte:
Biology > Philosophy.
Individuality > Philosophy.
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