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Animate beings: Their nature and identity
Ratio 25 (4):442-462 (2012)
Abstract
Drawing inspiration from Aristotle's biological writings, I attempt to elucidate what it is for something to be alive by providing illuminating logically necessary and sufficient conditions for something's being a living thing in the broadest sense. I then propose a related account of identity conditions for carbon‐based living organismsAuthor's Profile
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