Is Romeo dead? On the persistence of organisms

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dc.citation.epage4105en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber9en_US
dc.citation.spage4081en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber195en_US
dc.contributor.authorTzinman, R.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-21T16:10:40Zen_US
dc.date.available2019-02-21T16:10:40Zen_US
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Philosophyen_US
dc.description.abstractAccording to a prominent view of organism persistence (“vitalicism”), organisms cease to exist at death. According to a rival view (“somaticism”), organisms can continue to exist as dead organisms. Most of the arguments in favor of the latter view rely on linguistic and common sense intuitions. I propose a new argument for somaticism by appealing to two other sources that have thus far not figured in the debate: the concept of naturalness, and biological descriptions of organisms, in particular in ethology and ecology. I show that if we hone in on the relevant notion of naturalness, we can show that organisms can (and often do) continue to instantiate the natural property being an organism after death.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11229-017-1409-9en_US
dc.identifier.eissn1573-0964en_US
dc.identifier.issn0039-7857en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/50515en_US
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Netherlandsen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1409-9en_US
dc.source.titleSyntheseen_US
dc.subjectBiologyen_US
dc.subjectDeathen_US
dc.subjectNaturalnessen_US
dc.subjectOrganismsen_US
dc.subjectPersistenceen_US
dc.titleIs Romeo dead? On the persistence of organismsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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