Add to ORKGThe “units of selection” debate in philosophy of biology addresses which entity benefits from natural selection. Nanay has tried to explain why we are obsessed with the question about the meaning of life, using the notion of group selection, although he is skeptical about answering the question from a biological point of view. The aim of this paper is to give a biological explanation to the meaning of life. I argue that the meaning of life is survival and reproduction, appealing to the teleological notion of function in philosophy of biology
The question of the meaning of life is one of the most crucial questions that the human mind is able...
Philosophers of biology claim that function talk is consistent with naturalism. Yet recent work in b...
The article presents the outlines of an integrative theory of meaning based on the concept of value,...
The “units of selection” debate in philosophy of biology addresses which entity benefits from natura...
The aim of this paper is to make an unlikely connection between the old question about the meaning o...
During the last decades the question of defining life has gained increased interest but, at the same...
The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis which connects the discussionabout the definition of...
Hans Jonas’ “philosophical biology,” although developed several decades ago, is still fundamental to...
This paper surveys recent philosophy of biology. It aims to introduce outsiders to the field to the ...
Abstract: The evolution of life on Earth has produced an organism that is beginning to model and und...
Defining life scientifically, rolls in circles around the manifest traits (‘life-the manifestations’...
The article presents the outlines of an integrative theory of meaning based on the concept of value,...
Contemporary biology belongs among the most diversified sciences; yet one of its most fundamental an...
Life - a complex phenomenon. It has been studied, down the centuries, by various disciplines, from ...
Referring to the historical definition of biology which is considered as the scientific study of lif...
The question of the meaning of life is one of the most crucial questions that the human mind is able...
Philosophers of biology claim that function talk is consistent with naturalism. Yet recent work in b...
The article presents the outlines of an integrative theory of meaning based on the concept of value,...
The “units of selection” debate in philosophy of biology addresses which entity benefits from natura...
The aim of this paper is to make an unlikely connection between the old question about the meaning o...
During the last decades the question of defining life has gained increased interest but, at the same...
The aim of this paper is to provide an analysis which connects the discussionabout the definition of...
Hans Jonas’ “philosophical biology,” although developed several decades ago, is still fundamental to...
This paper surveys recent philosophy of biology. It aims to introduce outsiders to the field to the ...
Abstract: The evolution of life on Earth has produced an organism that is beginning to model and und...
Defining life scientifically, rolls in circles around the manifest traits (‘life-the manifestations’...
The article presents the outlines of an integrative theory of meaning based on the concept of value,...
Contemporary biology belongs among the most diversified sciences; yet one of its most fundamental an...
Life - a complex phenomenon. It has been studied, down the centuries, by various disciplines, from ...
Referring to the historical definition of biology which is considered as the scientific study of lif...
The question of the meaning of life is one of the most crucial questions that the human mind is able...
Philosophers of biology claim that function talk is consistent with naturalism. Yet recent work in b...
The article presents the outlines of an integrative theory of meaning based on the concept of value,...