Introduction to philosophical problems about life

Mark A. Bedau

1-3

Negotiating boundaries in the definition of life

Wittgensteinian and Darwinian insights on resolving conceptual border conflicts

Robert T. Pennock

5-20

Autonomy in evolution

from minimal to complex life

Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo, Alvaro Moreno

21-52

Autopoiesis and Darwinism

Jorge M. Escobar

53-72

A functional account of degrees of minimal chemical life

Mark A. Bedau

73-88

Is artefactualness a value-relevant property of living things?

Ronald Sandler

89-102

The dialectic of life

Christopher Shields

103-124

Life without definitions

Carol E. Cleland

125-144

Why I stopped worrying about the definition of life... and why you should as well

Édouard Machery

145-164