Individuation, Process, and Scientific Practices

Derek Skillings, Metascience ...this is an important volume full of excellent contributions.

James D. Grayot, Metapsychology Online Reviews This book is a testament not just to the philosophical complexity of such questions, but also to the relevance of such questions for doing good science, and hence, for doing good philosophy of science.

Alison K. McConwell, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences I recommend this book for philosophers of all sciences as a touchstone for the individuality debate's past and future directions ... it does the tough work of opening the possibility space for how to move forward, while at the same time identifying what might need to be left behind.

JanellaBaxter, Acta Biotheoretica The volume entices one to read from cover to cover and is likely to serve as a cornerstone reference for future work on individuation in the philosophy and history of science.

Janella Baxter, Acta Biotheoretica The breadth and depth with which this volume addresses questions of individuality is truly impressive. Each chapter makes a fascinating contribution to ongoing debates in the philosophical literature ... The volume entices one to read from cover to cover and is likely to serve as a cornerstone reference for future work on individuation in the philosophy and history of science.

Ot�vio Bueno is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Miami. He works in the philosophies of science, of mathematics and of logic, epistemology, and philosophy of art. He is the author of Applying Mathematics: Immersion, Inference, Interpretation (with Steven French, Oxford University Press), and over 180 research articles. He is editor-in-chief of Synthese. Ruey-Lin Chen is Professor of Philosophy at National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. His current research interest is in the philosophy of science across physical, biological, and experimental cases. He is the author of four books and more than forty articles in history and philosophy of science in Chinese. He also published a number of journal articles and book chapters in English. Melinda Bonnie Fagan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah, where she holds the Sterling M. McMurrin Chair. Her research focuses on experimental practice in biology (particularly stem cell and developmental biology), explanation, and modeling. She is the author of Philosophy of Stem Cell Biology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and more than forty articles and book chapters on topics in philosophy of science and biology.

Chapter 1. Individuation, Process, and Scientific Practices Otavio Bueno, Ruey-Lin Chen and Melinda B. Fagan Part I: Aspects of Individuation: Metaphysical and Processual Chapter 2. Processes, Organisms, Kinds and the Inevitability of Pluralism John Dupre Chapter 3. Individuating Processes John Pemberton Chapter 4. Individuating Part-Whole Relations in the Biological World Marie I. Kaiser Part II: Experimental Practices of Individuation Chapter 5. Ask Not "What Is an Individual?" C. Kenneth Waters Chapter 6. Individuality, Organisms, and Cell Differentiation Melinda Bonnie Fagan Chapter 7. Individuation of Developing Systems: A Reproducer Perspective James Griesemer Chapter 8. Individuation, Individuality, and Experimental Practice in Developmental Biology Alan C. Love Chapter 9. Experimental Individuation: Creation and Presentation Ruey-Lin Chen Chapter 10. Emergent Quasiparticles, Or, How to Get a Rich Physics from a Sober Metaphysics Alexandre Guay and Olivier Sartenaer Part III: Individuation in Philosophical Approaches to Science: Realism, Anti-Realism, Environmentalism Chapter 11. Can Quantum Objects Be Tracked? Otavio Bueno Chapter 12. Retail Realism, the Individuation of Theoretical Entities, and the Case of the Muriatic Radical Jonathon Hricko Chapter 13. Is Aldo Leopold's "Biotic Community" an Individual? Roberta L. Millstein