Titlebook: Organism, Medicine, and Metaphysics; Essays in Honor of H Stuart F. Spicker Book 19781st edition D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, H

Evolve

Ontology and the Body: A ReflectionIn the following brief, quite modest reflection, I try to come to an understanding of one of Hans Jonas’ most fascinating and important discussions. I will also give it the respect and merit it is manifestly due — long overdue, it seems to me — by confronting it philosophically: i.e., critically.

行乞

旧式步枪

978-94-009-9785-1D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1978

Vertical

The Execution of Euthanasia: The Right of the Dying to a Re-Formed Health Care Contextcussed.” We should not, after all, assume that our particular social nexus is typical. In truth it is more correct to say that authentic and open talk about death is still taboo ., especially in academic circles, at times even obscene. The reality, in short, is expressed by the conjunctive.

Addictive

Individuals and Their Kinds: Aristotelian Foundations of Biologye pursuit of the more traditional branches of biology, which do still exist and on which in a sense their more sophisticated sister disciplines depend. This disparity makes me uncomfortable; I have tried a number of times to approach the question, what Aristotle has to teach the modern metabiologist

Robust

Whitehead and Jonas: On Biological Organisms and Real Individuals conceived by Whitehead? This is a question which demands further critical discussion. It is a question not about the coherence of Whitehead’s system, but about its adequacy to our experience, to our good ontological, if not common, sense.

Enzyme

Ballerina

The Philosopher and the Scientists: Comments on the Perception of the Exact Sciences in the Work of y range of competence. I do not doubt that already my assumption about the nature of philosophy is open to criticism from at least some philosophers, but I feel certain that it is not objectionable to Jonas.

令人发腻

Life, Disease, and Death: A Metaphysical Viewpointthere any reason then why such machines should not be said to sense, remember, learn, adapt? A self-regulating machine performs like an organism. Why should not health be defined as successful performance, sickness as malfunction and death as irreparable breakdown of performance?

教义

Intentionality and the Mind/Body Problemy around. I sought to show that the intentionality thesis did not commit one to Cartesian dualism, that a certain form of pre-theoretical identity thesis is phenomenologically justified and also supported by the intentionality thesis ([14], pp. 133–154). This pre-theoretical identity was contrasted