The Nature of Living Being From Distinguishing Distinctions to Ethics

This book proposes a bold idea. Living beings are distinguishing distinctions. Single cells and multicellular organisms maintain themselves distinct by drawing distinctions. This is what organisms are and what they do. From this starting point, key issues examined range across ontology, epistemology...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mayer-Foulkes, Daniel Carlos
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:Biosemiotics
Subjects:
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Distinction-Distinguishing
  • Chapter 2 Distinguishing Distinctions
  • Chapter 3 ב and the Emergence of Living Being
  • Chapter 4 Empirical Evidence for ב
  • Chapter 5 Formal Definition of Distinction
  • Chapter 6 The Mathematical Ideal and the Elision of the Subject
  • Chapter 7 Four Kinds Of Things
  • Chapter 8 [Subjects]
  • Chapter 9 Living Being
  • Chapter 10 The Paradoxical Nature of Aliveness and [Ethics]