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Holism

2011
This book chapter is not available through ChesterRep. ; This book chapter discusses how holism relates to the whole person.
Baldwin, Moyra A., Greenwood, Joanne
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Strong holism, weak holism, and health

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2004
The health theories of Nordenfelt and Boorse are compared. Critical attention is focused on Nordenfelt's description of his theory as one of holistic welfare, contrasting with Boorse's analytical and statistical approach. Neither theory is found to give an entirely satisfactory account of 'health' in scientific medicine or common usage.
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Confirmation holism and semantic holism

Synthese, 1996
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Quine's Holism and Functionalist Holism

Mind, 2001
One central strand in Quine's criticism of common-sense notions of linguistic meaning is an argument from the holism of empirical content. This paper explores (with many digressions) the several versions of the argument, and discovers them to be uniformly bad. There is a kernel of truth in the idea that 'holism', in some sense, 'undermines the analytic-
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Does Epistemological Holism Lead to Meaning-Holism?

Topoi, 2002
§ 1. Holism in general. There are various proposals for a general characterization of holism. In this paper I propose the following: a variety of holism is the view that every X of an appropriate kind, which is part of a relevant whole W, cannot be legitimately separated or taken in isolation from W.
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Holism

The Handbook of Economic Methodology is a major multidisciplinary reference work on the developing field of economic methodology.
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