Individuals Across the Sciences

Contents Chapter 1: Introduction: Progressive steps towards a unified conception of individuality across the sciences Alexandre Guay & Thomas Pradeu Part 1: Metaphysical and logical foundations to individuality Chapter 2: Why individuality matters Stéphane Chauvier A foreword to Jonathan Lowe's chapter Alexander Bird Chapter 3: Non-Individuals Jonathan Lowe Chapter 4: Individuality, quantum physics, and a metaphysics of non-individuals: the role of the formal Krause and Arenhart Part 2: Puzzles about individuals in biology and physics Chapter 5: Individuality and Life Cycles Peter Godfrey-Smith Chapter 6: What Biofilms Can Teach Us About Individuality Marc Ereshefsky and Makmiller Pedroso Chapter 7: Cell and Body: Individuals in Stem Cell Biology Melinda Fagan Chapter 8: Collective individuals: parallels between joint action and biological individuality Cédric Paternotte Chapter 9: On the Emergence of Individuals in Physics Simon Saunders Chapter 10: Are there individuals in physics and if so what are they? James Ladyman Chapter 11: Minimal Structural Essentialism: Why Physics Doesn't Care Which is Which David Glick Chapter 12: Bohm's approach and individuality Paavo Pylkkanen, Basil J. Hiley, and Ilkka Pattiniemi Chapter 13: Branch-Relative Identity Christina Conroy Part 3: Beyond disciplinary borders Chapter 14: The Metaphysics of Individuality and the Sciences Matteo Morganti Chapter 15: The Biological and the Mereological: Metaphysical Implications of the Individuality Thesis Matt Haber Chapter 16: To Be Continued: The Genidentity of Physical and Biological Processes Alexandre Guay and Thomas Pradeu Chapter 17: Experimental Realization of Individuality Ruey-Lin Chen Chapter 18: Eliminating Objects Across the Sciences Steven French