Individuation, Process, and Scientific Practices

by Bueno, Otávio; Chen, Ruey-Lin; Fagan, Melinda Bonnie

• ISBN13: 9780190636814
• ISBN10: 0190636815
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-11-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Otávio Bueno is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Miami. He works in the philosophies of science, of mathematics and of logic, epistemology, and philosophy of art. He is the author of Applying Mathematics: Immersion, Inference, Interpretation (with Steven French, Oxford University Press), and over 180 research articles. He is editor-in-chief of Synthese.

Ruey-Lin Chen is Professor of Philosophy at National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. His current research interest is in the philosophy of science across physical, biological, and experimental cases. He is the author of four books and more than forty articles in history and philosophy of science in Chinese. He also published a number of journal articles and book chapters in English.

Melinda Bonnie Fagan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah, where she holds the Sterling M. McMurrin Chair. Her research focuses on experimental practice in biology (particularly stem cell and developmental biology), explanation, and modeling. She is the author of Philosophy of Stem Cell Biology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and more than forty articles and book chapters on topics in philosophy of science and biology.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Individuation, Process, and Scientific Practices Otávio Bueno, Ruey-Lin Chen and Melinda B. Fagan

Part I: Aspects of Individuation: Metaphysical and Processual
Chapter 2. Processes, Organisms, Kinds and the Inevitability of Pluralism John Dupré
Chapter 3. Individuating Processes John Pemberton
Chapter 4. Individuating Part-Whole Relations in the Biological World Marie I. Kaiser

Part II: Experimental Practices of Individuation
Chapter 5. Ask Not "What Is an Individual?" C. Kenneth Waters
Chapter 6. Individuality, Organisms, and Cell Differentiation Melinda Bonnie Fagan
Chapter 7. Individuation of Developing Systems: A Reproducer Perspective James Griesemer
Chapter 8. Individuation, Individuality, and Experimental Practice in Developmental Biology Alan C. Love
Chapter 9. Experimental Individuation: Creation and Presentation Ruey-Lin Chen
Chapter 10. Emergent Quasiparticles, Or, How to Get a Rich Physics from a Sober Metaphysics Alexandre Guay and Olivier Sartenaer

Part III: Individuation in Philosophical Approaches to Science: Realism, Anti-Realism, Environmentalism
Chapter 11. Can Quantum Objects Be Tracked? Otávio Bueno
Chapter 12. Retail Realism, the Individuation of Theoretical Entities, and the Case of the Muriatic Radical Jonathon Hricko
Chapter 13. Is Aldo Leopold's "Biotic Community" an Individual? Roberta L. Millstein