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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: The Philosophical Riddle of Death, from a Biological Point of View
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    Chapter 2 How Late-Eighteenth-Century Physiologists Understood the Living World and Their Task
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    Chapter 3 Bichat’s Theories and Their Genealogy
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    Chapter 4 Physiology in Bichat’s Physiological Researches on Life and Death
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    Chapter 5 Bichat’s Experimental Physiology in the Recherches (Part 2): Death as an Epistemic Facilitator
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    Chapter 6 Life and Death in Experimental Physiology After Bichat
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    Chapter 7 A Providentialist Metaphysics and the Traditional Economics of Death: Mortality and Individuality
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    Chapter 8 The Evolutionary Synthesis’ View of Death: Peter Medawar, George C. Williams, and the Riddles of Senescence
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    Chapter 9 Epistemology of Death (1): Goals and Evidence
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    Chapter 10 Epistemology of Death (2): Experiments, Tests and Mechanisms
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    Chapter 11 Ontology (1): The Modern Economics of Death and Its Trade-Offs
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    Chapter 12 Ontology (2) Death Programs and Their Discontents
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    Chapter 13 Ontology (3): The Case for Programs: Altruistic Suicide, Quasi-Programs and Smurfs
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    Chapter 14 Death Is a Social Issue
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    Chapter 15 Conclusion
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Chapter title
The Evolutionary Synthesis’ View of Death: Peter Medawar, George C. Williams, and the Riddles of Senescence
Chapter number 8
Book title
Death
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, January 2023
DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-14417-2_8
Book ISBNs
978-3-03-114416-5, 978-3-03-114417-2
Authors

Huneman, Philippe

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