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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: Progressive Steps toward a Unified Conception of Individuality Across the Sciences
Part 1: Metaphysical and Logical Foundations to Individuality
Chapter 2: Why Individuality Matters
A Foreword to E. J. Lowe’s Chapter
Chapter 3: Non-individuals
Chapter 4: Individuality, Quantum Physics, and a Metaphysics of Nonindividuals: The Role of the Formal
Part 2: Puzzles about Individuals in Biology and Physics
Chapter 5: Individuality and Life Cycles
Chapter 6: What Biofilms Can Teach Us about Individuality
Chapter 7: Cell and Body: Individuals in Stem Cell Biology
Chapter 8: Collective Individuals: Parallels Between Joint Action and Biological Individuality
Chapter 9: On the Emergence of Individuals in Physics
Chapter 10: Are There Individuals in Physics, and If So, What Are They?
Chapter 11: Minimal Structural Essentialism: Why Physics Doesn’t Care Which Is Which
Chapter 12: Bohm’s Approach and Individuality
Chapter 13: Branch-Relative Identity
Part 3: Beyond Disciplinary Borders
Chapter 14: The Metaphysics of Individuality and the Sciences
Chapter 15: The Biological and the Mereological: Metaphysical Implications of the Individuality Thesis
Chapter 16: To Be Continued: The Genidentity of Physical and Biological Processes
Chapter 17: Experimental Realization of Individuality
Chapter 18: Eliminating Objects Across the Sciences
Name Index
General Index
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