CPS Reading Group (24/6)

[Jerome Luxon]

Hello all, 

This week the CPS reading group will be reading Samir Okasha's article "On the very idea of biological individuality". This paper follows on nicely from Anton's talk this past week.

You can find the article attached to this email, the abstract below, and the zoom link and meeting info below that. As always, we will meet on Wednesday, in room 6.71, from 10:30 to 11:30. 

Abstract: The burgeoning debate over biological individuality raises deep issues, philosophical and scientific, but suffers from conceptual unclarity. This paper offers a diagnosis of what has gone wrong. It is argued that the problem of biological individuality, as it is often formulated in the literature, rests on a category mistake. The mistake is to treat the expression ‘biological individual’ as if it were a sortal, when in fact it is not. This diagnosis sheds light on a number of otherwise puzzling aspects of the debate.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://anu.zoom.us/j/82595801661?pwd=abASKA1huY1LWb7kwXcWVELJa5n3sJ.1

Meeting ID: 825 9580 1661
Password: 036715

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Jerome Luxon

PhD Candidate

School of Philosophy

Research School of Social Sciences

Australian National University

[Jerome Luxon]

Hello, 

Reminder this reading group will meet tomorrow. 

Best,

Jerome

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Jerome Luxon

PhD Candidate

School of Philosophy

Research School of Social Sciences

Australian National University

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