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

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The Conflict Between the Desire to Know and the Need to Care for the Patients asked the simple question — “why?”. A scientist answered that if we did not do it, someone else would. Therefore we had to. Again Hans Jonas asked “why?”. Others may move you to examine your dearest unquestioned assumptions by the persuasiveness and complexity of their reasoning; but such is the f

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Teleology and Darwin’s , Beyond Chance and Necessity?nificance of Darwin’s ideas remain a subject of inquiry and controversy. Granting that Darwin was right about the fact of evolution — granting, that is, that all of nature flows, that nature is subject to “history” — it is by no means yet settled what difference this insight should make for our thin

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Individuals and Their Kinds: Aristotelian Foundations of Biologyviduals of differing species hybridize [1, 12]; still, this remains a small anomaly in a generally stable nature, in which species imitate the imperishable spheres by going round and round in their own imperfect way. Insofar as he is not an evolutionist, moreover, Aristotle’s biological thought rema

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The Organism According to Process Philosophylems and also about the type of philosophy in which I have most confidence. I have decided, however, not to comment in much detail upon his views. This is partly because I am not sure that he is at his best in evaluating process philosophy or in analyzing “the phenomenon of life.” I like him best ei

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Whitehead and Jonas: On Biological Organisms and Real Individualshiteheadian notion of ‘a(chǎn)ctual entity’ has become reasonably intelligible.’ The notion of actual entity, which refers both to God and to finite, episodic ‘a(chǎn)ctual occasions,’ is Whitehead’s reformation of the traditional notion of substance. Actual entities are the “final, really real things” of White

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The Redefinition of Deathy “Philosophical Reflections on Experimenting with Human Subjects,” a section dealing with the redefinition of death as “irreversible coma” ([5], pp. 105–131.) In this section, Jonas states what he later repeats in “Against the Stream: Comments on the Definition and Redefinition of Death,” that he s

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The Philosopher and the Scientists: Comments on the Perception of the Exact Sciences in the Work of knowledged prerequisite for scientific publications. However, this is neither a philosophical essay nor a critical or hermeneutic evaluation of some of the writings of Hans Jonas. Rather, I shall try to formulate a response to the philosophical analysis of science and technology which appears in the

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Life, Disease, and Death: A Metaphysical Viewpointhild we do not say the car cannot go because it is sick. We say a wrist watch needs repair but a wrist needs to be healed, an automobile is damaged but a person is injured. Although the crude reductive mechanism of an earlier era is past its high tide, a new mechanistic biology puts forward the clai