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Ellen Clarke, "The Units of Life: Kinds of Individual in Biology" (Oxford UP, 2025)

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Feb 10, 202668:51Society & Culture

While we tend to think of biological individuals in terms of paradigmic cases – a dog, a starfish, a bacterium – our ordinary criteria for distinguishing one individual from another are inadequate for making these distin...

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Ellen Clarke, "The Units of Life: Kinds of Individual in Biology" (Oxford UP, 2025) is an episode from New Books in Philosophy by New Books Network. While we tend to think of biological individuals in terms of paradigmic cases – a dog, a st...

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Ellen Clarke, "The Units of Life: Kinds of Individual in Biology" (Oxford UP, 2025)

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