The nature of life
Subtitle: classical and contemporary perspectives from philosophy and science
By: ed. by Mark A. Bedau and Carol E. Cleland
Contributors: Cleland, Carol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780511727511
Subjects: Natural History; Science; Philosophy; Science: Biology; Philosophy of nature
Description: Introduces a broad range of scientific and philosophical issues about life through the original historical and contemporary sources.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Sources; About the authors; Introduction; Section I Classical discussions of life; Section II The origin and extent of natural life; Section III Artificial life and synthetic biology; Section IV Defining and explaining life; Supplementary bibliography on life; Index.