Death

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Philosophical Riddle of Death, from a Biological Point of View

Chapter 2 How Late-Eighteenth-Century Physiologists Understood the Living World and Their Task

Chapter 3 Bichat’s Theories and Their Genealogy

Chapter 4 Physiology in Bichat’s Physiological Researches on Life and Death

Chapter 5 Bichat’s Experimental Physiology in the Recherches (Part 2): Death as an Epistemic Facilitator

Chapter 6 Life and Death in Experimental Physiology After Bichat

Chapter 7 A Providentialist Metaphysics and the Traditional Economics of Death: Mortality and Individuality

Chapter 8 The Evolutionary Synthesis’ View of Death: Peter Medawar, George C. Williams, and the Riddles of Senescence

Chapter 9 Epistemology of Death (1): Goals and Evidence

Chapter 10 Epistemology of Death (2): Experiments, Tests and Mechanisms

Chapter 12 Ontology (2) Death Programs and Their Discontents

Chapter 13 Ontology (3): The Case for Programs: Altruistic Suicide, Quasi-Programs and Smurfs

Chapter 14 Death Is a Social Issue

Chapter 15 Conclusion