Death : Perspectives from the Philosophy of Biology 1st Edition Philippe Huneman

Death : Perspectives from the Philosophy of Biology 1st Edition Philippe Huneman – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783031144165,9783031144172,3031144163,3031144171

Product details:

• ISBN 10: 3031144171
• ISBN 13: 9783031144172
• Author: Philippe Huneman

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. In the first part, Huneman reconstructs a conceptual genealogy of experimental physiology based on an in-depth analysis of Bichat’s investigations of death processes. In the second part he 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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: The Philosophical Riddle of Death, from a Biological Point of View
Part I. How Do We Die? Proximate Causes of Death and the Rise of Experimental Physiology
2. How Late-Eighteenth-Century Physiologists Understood the Living World and Their Task
3. Bichat’s Theories and Their Genealogy
4. Physiology in Bichat’s Physiological Researches on Life and Death
5. Bichat’s Experimental Physiology in the Recherches (Part 2): Death as an Epistemic Facilitator
6. Life and Death in Experimental Physiology After Bichat
Part II. The Ultimate Causes: Why Do We—and All Others Creatures—Die? And What Should the Answer Do to Philosophy?
7. A Providentialist Metaphysics and the Traditional Economics of Death: Mortality and Individuality
8. The Evolutionary Synthesis’ View of Death: Peter Medawar, George C. Williams, and the Riddles of Senescence
9. Epistemology of Death (1): Goals and Evidence
10. Epistemology of Death (2): Experiments, Tests and Mechanisms
11. Ontology (1): The Modern Economics of Death and Its Trade-Offs
12. Ontology (2) Death Programs and Their Discontents
13. Ontology (3): The Case for Programs: Altruistic Suicide, Quasi-Programs and Smurfs
14. Death Is a Social Issue
15. Conclusion

People also search:

death perspectives from the philosophy of biology

what is death in philosophical perspective

what is the philosophy of death

theories of death philosophy

death philosophers