Synthese

An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science

Volume 185, issue 1, March 2012

PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS ABOUT LIFE

Issue editor

Mark Bedau

9 articles in this issue

Introduction to philosophical problems about life

Authors
- Mark A. Bedau
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 26 January 2011
- Pages: 1 - 3
Negotiating boundaries in the definition of life: Wittgensteinian and Darwinian insights on resolving conceptual border conflicts

Authors
- Robert T. Pennock
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 15 February 2011
- Pages: 5 - 20
Autonomy in evolution: from minimal to complex life

Authors
- Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo
- Alvaro Moreno
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 01 February 2011
- Pages: 21 - 52
Autopoiesis and Darwinism

Authors
- Jorge M. Escobar
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 21 January 2011
- Pages: 53 - 72
A functional account of degrees of minimal chemical life

Authors
- Mark A. Bedau
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 27 January 2011
- Pages: 73 - 88
Is artefactualness a value-relevant property of living things?

Authors
- Ronald Sandler
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 21 January 2011
- Pages: 89 - 102
The dialectic of life

Authors
- Christopher Shields
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 24 February 2011
- Pages: 103 - 124
Life without definitions

Authors
- Carol E. Cleland
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 15 February 2011
- Pages: 125 - 144
Why I stopped worrying about the definition of life... and why you should as well

Authors
- Edouard Machery
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 29 January 2011
- Pages: 145 - 164