Death : perspectives from the philosophy of biology / Philippe Huneman.
Huneman, Philippe, author.
2023
QH308.2
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Title
Death : perspectives from the philosophy of biology / Philippe Huneman.
Author
Huneman, Philippe, author.
ISBN
9783031144172 (electronic bk.)
3031144171 (electronic bk.)
3031144163
9783031144165
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14417-2
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (1 volume)
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10.1007/978-3-031-14417-2 doi
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QH308.2
Dewey Decimal Classification
570.1
Summary
This book addresses several key issues in the biological study of death with the intent of capturing their genealogy, the assumptions and presuppositions they make, and the way that they open specific new research avenues. The book is divided into two sections: the first considers physiology and the second evolutionary biology. Huneman explains that biologists in the late 1950s put forth a research framework that evolutionarily accounts for death in terms of either an effect of the weakness of natural selection or a by-product of natural selection for early reproduction. He illustrates how the biology of death is a central field and that studying it provides insight into the way that the epistemic structure of this knowledge has been constituted, persists until now, and may conflict with some traditional philosophical ideas. Philippe Huneman is Research Director at the Institut dHistoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques at the Universite Paris, France. He is also an affiliated professor at the University of Toronto, Canada, and he has published extensively on the philosophy of evolutionary biology and ecology. .
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Chapter 1. Introduction. Why a book about biological death in philosophy? What to find in it?
Chapter 2. How Late 18th-Century Physiologists Understood the Living World and their task
Chapter 3. Bichats theories and their genealogy
Chapter 4. Physiology in Bichats Physiological Researches on Life and Death
Chapter 5. Bichats experimental physiology in the Recherches (part 2): death as an epistemic facilitator
Chapter 6. Life and Death in Experimental Physiology after Bichat
Chapter 7. A providentialist metaphysics and the traditional economics of death : mortality and individuality
Chapter 8. The evolutionary synthesis view of death: Peter Medawar, George C. Williams and the riddles of senescence
Chapter 9 - Epistemology of death (1) : goals and evidences
Chapter 10. Epistemology of death (2): experiments, tests and mechanisms
Chapter 11. Ontology. The economics of death. and its trade-offs
Chapter 12. Ontology (2). Death programs and their discontents
Chapter 13. Ontology (3). The case(s) for programs: Altruistic suicide, quasi-programs and smurfs
Chapter 14. Death is a social issue
Chapter 15. Conclusion.

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