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Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity) Consciousness Death Evolution Human Persons
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Aeon Papers, 2, 3, 4, 5 Aeon Papers - Summary Document: 2017-2018 Animation, 2 Baker - Persons in the Material World, 2 Biological Criterion
Criteria of Identity Death, 2, 3 Dracula, 2, 3 Immortality Information
Johnston - Human Beings Life After Death Narrative Identity Olson - What Are We? Animals, 2, 3 Olson - What Are We? The Question
Organisms, 2, 3 Persistent Vegetative State PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4, 5 Problem of the Many Process Metaphysics
Psychological View Quantum Mechanics Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction) Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?), 2 Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues), 2
Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It) Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments), 2 Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Thesis - Current Stance
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Ayers (Michael R.) Locke on Living Things Paper High Quality Abstract   Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder) Persons in the Material World Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2 Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder) When Do Persons Begin and End? Paper High Quality Abstract   Yes
Dresser (Sam) How to not fear your death Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Feldman (Fred) Life-Functional Theories of Life Paper High Quality Abstract   Yes
Goff (Philip) Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness Book Medium Quality Abstract    
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) Aeon: 2019+ Paper High Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4, 5 Yes
Hershenov (David) Review of Nancey Murphy's 'Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?' Paper High Quality Abstract   Yes
Johnston (Mark) Human Beings Paper High Quality Abstract   Yes
Johnston (Mark) Is Heaven a Place We Can Get To? Paper High Quality Abstract    
Kaufman (Sharon) Neither person nor cadaver Paper Low Quality Abstract   Yes
Lachmann (Michael) & Walker (Sara) Life ≠ alive Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Yes
Nathan (Marco J.) Knowing your true age requires more than a swab and calendar Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Olson (Eric) What Are We? Animals Paper High Quality Abstract 2, 3  
Olson (Eric) What Are We? The Question Paper High Quality Abstract   Yes
Papineau (David) Introducing Consciousness Paper High Quality Abstract   Yes
Pross (Addy) What Is Life? Paper Low Quality Abstract   Yes
Schechtman (Marya) Personality and Persistence: The Many Faces of Personal Survival Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2  
Shipley (G.J.) Review of Andy Clark's 'Natural-Born Cyborgs' Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Animation Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2 Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Biological Criterion Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction) Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?) Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2 Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues) Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2 Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It) Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It) Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments) Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2 Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection) Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Criteria of Identity Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Current Position Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Death Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3 Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Dracula Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3 Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Immortality Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Information Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Life After Death Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Narrative Identity Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Organisms Paper Medium Quality Abstract 2, 3 Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Persistent Vegetative State Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Problem of the Many Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Process Metaphysics Paper Low Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Psychological View Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Quantum Mechanics Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter) Dualism and Materialism: Athens and Jerusalem? Paper Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Vedral (Vlatko) Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information Book Medium Quality Abstract    
Wilson (Jack) Beyond Horses and Oak Trees: A New Theory of Individuation for Living Entities Paper High Quality Abstract 2 Yes



References & Reading List

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Agar (Nicholas) Biocentrism and the Concept of Life Paper - Cited Medium Quality Abstract Ethics, Vol. 108, No. 1 (Oct., 1997), pp. 147-168 11%
Alexander (Denis) Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose? Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Medium Quality Abstract Alexander (Denis) - Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose? Yes
Alexander (Denis) The Origin of Life Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Alexander (Denis) - Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose? 2008, Chapter 16 Yes
Al-Khalili (Jim) & McFadden (Johnjoe) Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology Book - Cited Medium Quality Abstract Al-Khalili (Jim) & McFadden (Johnjoe) - Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology Yes
Al-Khalili (Jim) & McFadden (Johnjoe) Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Al-Khalili (Jim) & McFadden (Johnjoe) - Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology Yes
Archard (David) Procreating Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Luper - The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death, 2014, Chapter 14 8%
Atkinson (Basil F.C.) Life and Immortality: An Examination of the Nature and Meaning of Life and Death as they are revealed in the Scriptures Book - Referenced Atkinson (Basil F.C.) - Life and Immortality: An Examination of the Nature and Meaning of Life and Death as they are revealed in the Scriptures Yes
Ayers (Michael R.) Locke (Vol 2 - Ontology) Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing) Low Quality Abstract Bibliographical details to be supplied 23%
Ayers (Michael R.) Locke on Living Things Paper - Referencing High Quality Abstract Ayers - Locke (Vol. 2 - Ontology), 1991, Chapter 19, pp. 216-228 Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder) On the Very Idea of a Form of Life Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Inquiry, 27:277–89, 1984 8%
Baker (Lynne Rudder) Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing) Medium Quality Abstract Bibliographical details to be supplied Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder) Persons in the Material World Paper - Referencing Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 1 Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder) When Do Persons Begin and End? Paper - Referencing High Quality Abstract Distinguished Faculty Lecture, December 5, 2005 Yes
Bedau (Mark A.) The Nature of Life Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Luper - The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death, 2014, Chapter 1 6%
Bedau (Mark A.) The Nature of Life Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Margaret Boden, ed., 1996, The Philosophy of Artificial Life (Oxford University Press), pp. 332-357 No
Borgonie (Gaetan) & Lau (Maggie) Life goes deeper Paper - Cited Aeon, 24 November, 2017 Yes
Brody (Baruch) Abortion and the Sanctity of Human Life : a Philosophical View Book - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Brody (Baruch) - Abortion and the Sanctity of Human Life : a Philosophical View 4%
Butler (J.A.V.) The Life Process Book - Cited Medium Quality Abstract Butler (J.A.V.) - The Life Process No
Cairns-Smith (A.G.) Seven Clues to the Origin of Life - A Scientific Detective Story Book - Cited Low Quality Abstract Cairns-Smith (A.G.) - Seven Clues to the Origin of Life - A Scientific Detective Story Yes
Cairns-Smith (A.G.) Seven Clues to the Origin of Life - A Scientific Detective Story Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Cairns-Smith - Seven Clues to the Origin of Life - A Scientific Detective Story 3%
Cairns-Smith (A.G.) Summing up: The Seven Clues Paper - By Subtopic High Quality Abstract Cairns-Smith - Seven Clues to the Origin of Life - A Scientific Detective Story Yes
Cairns-Smith (A.G.) The Life Puzzle - On Crystals and Organisms and on the Possibility of a Crystal as an Ancestor Book - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Cairns-Smith (A.G.) - The Life Puzzle - On Crystals and Organisms and on the Possibility of a Crystal as an Ancestor 2%
Carroll (Sean M.) The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself Book - Referenced Low Quality Abstract Carroll (Sean M.) - The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself 1%
CIBA Foundation Human Embryo Research: Yes or No? Book - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract CIBA Foundation - Human Embryo Research: Yes or No? No
Clegg (James S.) Cryptobiosis — a Peculiar State of Biological Organization Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B 128, 2001, 613-624 8%
Contera (Sonia) Engines of life Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Aeon, 9 April 2020 Yes
Contera (Sonia) Nano Comes to Life Book - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Contera (Sonia) - Nano Comes to Life 1%
Davies (Paul C.W.) The Fifth Miracle: Search for the Origins of Life Book - Cited Medium Quality Abstract Davies (Paul C.W.) - The Fifth Miracle: Search for the Origins of Life 3%
De Jesus (Paulo) Autopoietic Enactivism, Phenomenology and the Deep Continuity Between Life and Mind Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 15, 265-289 5%
DiFrisco (James) & Mossio (Matteo) Diachronic Identity in Complex Life Cycles: An Organizational Perspective Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Dupré, J. (ed.): Biological Identity: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology, (History and Philosophy of Biology), Routledge, In press. 22%
Dupre (John) & O'Malley (Maureen A.) Varieties of Living Things: Life at the Intersection of Lineage and Metabolism Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Philosophy and Theoretical Biology (2009) 1:e003 No
Dyson (Freeman) Origins of Life Book - Cited Medium Quality Abstract Dyson (Freeman) - Origins of Life 6%
Elliot (Natalie) Origin story Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Aeon, 8 September 2020 Yes
Emilsson (Eyjolfur K.) On the Length of a Good Life Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Luper - The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death, 2014, Chapter 7 8%
England (Jeremy) Why trees don’t ungrow Paper - By Subtopic Aeon, 01 November, 2017 Yes
Erber (Joan T.) & Szuchman (Lenore T.) Great Myths of Aging Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Low Quality Abstract Erber (Joan T.) & Szuchman (Lenore T.) - Great Myths of Aging 17%
Erber (Joan T.) & Szuchman (Lenore T.) Great Myths of Aging: Living Contexts Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Erber (Joan T.) & Szuchman (Lenore T.) - Great Myths of Aging, Chapter 4 29%
Feldman (Fred) Confrontations with the Reaper: A Philosophical Study of the Nature and Value of Death Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Medium Quality Abstract Feldman (Fred) - Confrontations with the Reaper: A Philosophical Study of the Nature and Value of Death Yes
Feldman (Fred) Confrontations with the Reaper: A Philosophical Study of the Nature and Value of Death Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing) Medium Quality Abstract Bibliographical details to be supplied Yes
Feldman (Fred) Life-Functional Theories of Life Paper - Referencing High Quality Abstract Feldman - Confrontations with the Reaper, Chapter 2 Yes
Feldman (Fred) Vitalist Theories of Life Paper - By Subtopic High Quality Abstract Feldman - Confrontations with the Reaper, Chapter 3 Yes
Flitch (Crawford J. E.) The Tragic Sense of Life: Introductory Essay Paper - By Subtopic Unomono (Miguel De) - The Tragic Sense of Life 33%
Frossard (Philippe) The Lottery of Life: The New Genetics and the Future of Mankind Book - Cited Medium Quality Abstract Frossard (Philippe) - The Lottery of Life: The New Genetics and the Future of Mankind No
Gert (Bernard), Lizza (John), Youngner (Stuart) & Chiong (Winston) Matters of 'Life' and 'Death' Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 36, No. 3 (May - Jun., 2006), pp. 4-6 Yes
Grobstein (Clifford) Science and the Unborn: Choosing Human Futures Book - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Grobstein (Clifford) - Science and the Unborn: Choosing Human Futures 2%
Grobstein (Clifford) Science and the Unborn: Choosing Human Futures Paper - By Subtopic High Quality Abstract Grobstein (Clifford) - Science and the Unborn: Choosing Human Futures 4%
Grobstein (Clifford) The Strategy of Life Book - Cited Grobstein (Clifford) - The Strategy of Life 3%
Grobstein (Clifford) The Strategy of Life Paper - By Subtopic High Quality Abstract Grobstein (Clifford) - Strategy of Life 6%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) Aeon: A-B (& General) Book - Cited (via Paper Cited) Low Quality Abstract Bibliographical details to be supplied 100%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) Aeon: C-F Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Low Quality Abstract Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: C-F 51%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) Aeon: L-P Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Low Quality Abstract Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: L-P 33%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) Aeon: Q-S Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Low Quality Abstract Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: Q-S 30%
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) Aeon: T-Z Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Low Quality Abstract Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) - Aeon: T-Z 21%
Hanfling (Oswald), Ed. Life and Meaning - A Reader Book - Cited Medium Quality Abstract Hanfling (Oswald), Ed. - Life and Meaning - A Reader No
Hershenov (David) Review of Nancey Murphy's 'Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?' Paper - Referencing High Quality Abstract Religious Studies, 43:2, June 2007, 237-242 Yes
Hoover (Richard B.) Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites: Implications to Life on Comets, Europa, and Enceladus Paper - By Subtopic High Quality Abstract Journal of Cosmology, 2011, Vol 13, JournalofCosmology.com March, 2011 15%
Jaeger (Johannes) & Monk (Nick) Everything flows: A process perspective on life Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract EMBO Reports (2015) 16:1064-1067 17%
Jevons (F.R.) The Biochemical Approach to Life Book - Cited Medium Quality Abstract Jevons (F.R.) - The Biochemical Approach to Life No
Johnston (Mark) Human Beings Paper - Referencing High Quality Abstract Journal of Philosophy, Volume 84, Issue 2 (Feb 1987), 59-83 Yes
Johnston (Mark) Is Heaven a Place We Can Get To? Paper - Referencing High Quality Abstract Johnston (Mark) - Surviving Death, 2010 78%
Johnston (Mark) Surviving Death Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing) Medium Quality Abstract Bibliographical details to be supplied 13%
Journal of Cosmology Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites: Commentaries Paper - By Subtopic High Quality Abstract Journal of Cosmology, 2011, Vol 13, JournalofCosmology.com March, 2011 78%
Kaag (John) The greatest use of life Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Aeon, 01 October, 2018 22%
Kazez (Jean) Life Doesn't Begin at Conception Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract The Philosophers' Magazine, 3rd November 2017 Yes
Keilin (David) The problem of anabiosis or latent life: history and current concept Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Proceedings B of the Royal Society of London, 17 March 1959, Volume 150, Issue 939, pp. 149–91 4%
Lachmann (Michael) & Walker (Sara) Life ≠ alive Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Aeon, 24 June, 2019 Yes
Laqueur (Thomas) Ghosts and ghouls haunt the living with a message about life Paper - By Subtopic Aeon, 11 January, 2017 Yes
Lemos (Noah) Assessing Lives Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Luper - The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death, 2014, Chapter 6 7%
Levy (Steven) Artificial Life: The Quest for a New Creation Book - Cited Medium Quality Abstract Levy (Steven) - Artificial Life: The Quest for a New Creation 4%
Lizza (John) Where's Waldo? The 'decapitation gambit' and the definition of death Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 37, No. 12 (December 2011), pp. 743-746 No
Luper (Steven) Life's Meaning Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Luper - The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death, 2014, Chapter 12 No
Luper (Steven) The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death: Introduction Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Luper - The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death, 2014 42%
Luper (Steven), Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death Book - Cited Medium Quality Abstract Luper (Steven), Ed. - The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death 5%
Marsa (Linda) The longevity gap Paper - By Subtopic Aeon, 02 July, 2014 Yes
Martin (Michael G.F.), Ed. Mind - 113/450 (April 2004) Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing) Bibliographical details to be supplied 6%
Maynard Smith (John) The Problems of Biology Book - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Maynard Smith (John) - The Problems of Biology No
Maynard Smith (John) The Problems of Biology Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Maynard Smith (John) - The Problems of Biology No
McFadden (Johnjoe) Life is quantum Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Aeon, 29 October, 2014 Yes
McLaren (Ann) Prelude to Embryogenesis Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract CIBA Foundation - Human Embryo Research: Yes or No? No
Medawar (Peter) & Medawar (Jean) The Life Science: Current Ideas of Biology Book - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Medawar (Peter) & Medawar (Jean) - The Life Science: Current Ideas of Biology No
Medina (John) The Clock of Ages - Why we Age; How we Age; Winding Back the Clock Book - Cited Medium Quality Abstract Medina (John) - The Clock of Ages - Why we Age; How we Age; Winding Back the Clock Yes
Medina (John) The Clock of Ages - Why we Age; How we Age; Winding Back the Clock Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Medina - The Clock of Ages - Why we Age; How we Age; Winding Back the Clock Yes
Meincke (Anne Sophie) & Dupre (John), Eds. Biological Identity: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Medium Quality Abstract Meincke (Anne Sophie) & Dupre (John), Eds. - Biological Identity: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology 6%
Moreland (J.P.) & Rae (Scott) Body & Soul - Human Nature and the Crisis in Ethics Book - Referenced Medium Quality Abstract Moreland (J.P.) & Rae (Scott) - Body & Soul - Human Nature and the Crisis in Ethics 11%
Morioka (Masahiro), Ed. Nihilism and the Meaning of Life - A Philosophical Dialogue with James Tartaglia Book - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Morioka (Masahiro), Ed. - Nihilism and the Meaning of Life - A Philosophical Dialogue with James Tartaglia 1%
Morioka (Masahiro), Ed. Nihilism and the Meaning of Life - A Philosophical Dialogue with James Tartaglia Paper - By Subtopic Morioka (Masahiro), Ed - Nihilism and the Meaning of Life - A Philosophical Dialogue with James Tartaglia 1%
Morowitz (Harold J.) & Trefil (James) The Facts of Life: Science and the Abortion Controversy Book - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Morowitz (Harold J.) & Trefil (James) - The Facts of Life: Science and the Abortion Controversy 2%
Morowitz (Harold J.) & Trefil (James) The Facts of Life: Science and the Abortion Controversy Paper - By Subtopic High Quality Abstract Morowitz (Harold J.) & Trefil (James) - The Facts of Life: Science and the Abortion Controversy 5%
Nathan (Marco J.) Knowing your true age requires more than a swab and calendar Paper - Referencing Medium Quality Abstract Aeon, 02 March 2022 Yes
Noble (Denis) Dance to the Tune of Life: Biological Relativity Book - Cited Medium Quality Abstract Noble (Denis) - Dance to the Tune of Life: Biological Relativity 5%
Noble (Denis) Dance to the Tune of Life: Biological Relativity Paper - By Subtopic High Quality Abstract Noble (Denis) - Dance to the Tune of Life: Biological Relativity 12%
Noble (Denis) The Music of Life: Biology Beyond Genes Book - Cited Medium Quality Abstract Noble (Denis) - The Music of Life: Biology Beyond Genes 7%
Noble (Denis) The Music of Life: Biology Beyond Genes Paper - By Subtopic Noble (Denis) - The Music of Life: Biology Beyond Genes 16%
Oderberg (David) Synthetic Life and the Bruteness of Immanent Causation Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract E. Feser (ed.) Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013): 206-35 12%
Olson (Eric) What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing) High Quality Abstract Bibliographical details to be supplied 99%
Olson (Eric) What Are We? Animals Paper - Referencing High Quality Abstract What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 2 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.) 81%
Olson (Eric) What Are We? The Question Paper - Referencing High Quality Abstract What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 1 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.) Yes
Ozanne (Charles) The Life and Soul of Mortal Man: His Composition, Disintegration, and Resurrection Book - Referenced Medium Quality Abstract Ozanne (Charles) - The Life and Soul of Mortal Man: His Composition, Disintegration, and Resurrection 7%
Papineau (David) Introducing Consciousness Book - Referencing (via Paper Referencing) Medium Quality Abstract Bibliographical details to be supplied Yes
Papineau (David) Introducing Consciousness Paper - Referencing High Quality Abstract Papineau - Introducing Consciousness Yes
Popper (Karl) & Eccles (John) The Self and Its Brain Book - Referenced Medium Quality Abstract Popper (Karl) & Eccles (John) - The Self and Its Brain 2%
Pross (Addy) Biology is Chemistry Paper - By Subtopic Pross (Addy) - What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology, Chapter 7 Yes
Pross (Addy) Biology's Crisis of Identity Paper - By Subtopic Pross (Addy) - What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology, Chapter 6 Yes
Pross (Addy) Life’s restlessness Paper - By Subtopic Aeon, 29 April, 2014 Yes
Pross (Addy) Living Things are so Very Strange Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Pross (Addy) - What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology, Chapter 1 Yes
Pross (Addy) Stability and Instability Paper - By Subtopic Pross (Addy) - What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology, Chapter 4 Yes
Pross (Addy) The Knotty Origin of Life Problem Paper - By Subtopic Pross (Addy) - What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology, Chapter 5 Yes
Pross (Addy) The Quest for a Theory of Life Paper - By Subtopic Pross (Addy) - What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology, Chapter 2 Yes
Pross (Addy) Understanding 'Understanding' Paper - By Subtopic Pross (Addy) - What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology, Chapter 3 Yes
Pross (Addy) What Is Life? Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Pross (Addy) - What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology, Chapter 8 Yes
Pross (Addy) What is Life? How Chemistry Becomes Biology: Preface Paper - By Subtopic Pross (Addy) - What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology Yes
Pross (Addy) What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology Book - Cited Medium Quality Abstract Pross (Addy) - What is Life?: How Chemistry Becomes Biology Yes
Ruse (Michael) Does life have a purpose? Paper - By Subtopic Aeon, 24 June, 2013 Yes
Schrodinger (Erwin) What is Life? Book - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Schrodinger (Erwin) - What is Life? 4%
Schrodinger (Erwin) What is Life? Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Schrodinger - What is Life? 1944 6%
Sheldrake (Rupert) A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation Book - By Subtopic High Quality Abstract Sheldrake (Rupert) - A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation 2%
Shipley (G.J.) Review of Andy Clark's 'Natural-Born Cyborgs' Paper - Referencing Medium Quality Abstract Mind - 113/450 (April 2004) Yes
Shoemaker (David) Moral Issues at the Beginning of Life, Part II: Creation Paper - By Subtopic Low Quality Abstract Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction, 2009, Chapter 5 Yes
Shoemaker (David) Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) Low Quality Abstract Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction Yes
Simons (Geoff) Are Computers Alive? Evolution and New Life Forms Book - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Simons (Geoff) - Are Computers Alive? Evolution and New Life Forms 2%
Skibba (Ramin) To find aliens, we must think of life as we don’t know it Paper - By Subtopic Aeon, 19 September, 2017 Yes
Skillings (Derek J.) Life is not easily bounded Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Aeon, 24 October, 2017 Yes
Smolin (Lee) The Life of the Cosmos Book - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Smolin (Lee) - The Life of the Cosmos 1%
Swinburne (Richard) The Evolution of the Soul Book - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Swinburne (Richard) - The Evolution of the Soul No
Tegmark (Max) Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Book - Cited Medium Quality Abstract Tegmark (Max) - Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Animation Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Todman (Theo) Thesis - Life Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract   Yes
Tymieniecka (Anna-Teresa) & Zalewski (Zbigniew), Eds. Life: The Human Being between Life and Death Book - By Subtopic Tymieniecka (Anna-Teresa) & Zalewski (Zbigniew), Eds. - Life: The Human Being between Life and Death No
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Tymieniecka (Anna-Teresa), Ed. The Origins of Life: The Primogenital Matrix Of Life And Its Context Book - By Subtopic Tymieniecka (Anna-Teresa), Ed. - The Origins of Life: The Primogenital Matrix Of Life And Its Context No
Unamuno (Miguel De), Flitch (Crawford J. E.) The Tragic Sense of Life Book - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Unamuno (Miguel De), Flitch (Crawford J. E.) - The Tragic Sense of Life 2%
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Vedral (Vlatko) What life wants Paper - By Subtopic Medium Quality Abstract Aeon, 27 November 2012 Yes
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