After reviewing various interpretations of structural realism, I adopt here a definition that allows both relations between things that are already individuated (which I call “relations between things”) and relations that individuate previously un-individuated entities (”things between relations”). Since both space-time points in general relativity and elementary particles in quantum theory fal...

We consider biological individuality in terms of information theoretic and graphical principles. Our purpose is to extract through an algorithmic decomposition system-environment boundaries supporting individuality. We infer or detect evolved individuals rather than assume that they exist. Given a set of consistent measurements over time, we discover a coarsegrained or quantized description on ...

Can listeners recognize the individual characteristics of unfamiliar performers playing two different musical pieces on the harpsichord? Six professional harpsichordists, three prize-winners and three non prize-winners, made two recordings of two pieces from the Baroque period (a variation on a Partita by Frescobaldi and a rondo by François Couperin) on an instrument equipped with a MIDI consol...

This book has several very positive qualities; but its project raises certain important questions, which are not wholly addressed by the itself. First, and most fundamentally: what is subject? The title cites two notions: individuality subjectivity, both of quite complex. first idea, ‘individuality’, can denote ‘unique personal identity’ (as distinct from identity any other person); Stoic versi...