Results 181 to 190 of about 336,354 (242)

Physicalism and Ontological Holism

Metaphilosophy, 1999
The claim of this paper is that we should envisage physicalism as an ontological holism. Our current basic physics, quantum theory, suggests that, ontologically speaking, we have to assume one global quantum state of the world; many of the properties that are often taken to be intrinsic properties of physical systems are in fact relations, which are ...
M. Esfeld
openaire   +2 more sources

Social Groups, Explanation and Ontological Holism

Philosophical Papers, 2003
Ontological holism is the thesis that social groups are best understood as composite material particulars. At a high level of taxonomic classification groups such as mobs, tribes and nations are the same kind of thing as organisms and artefacts. This holism is opposed by ontological individualism, which maintains that in our formal and folk social ...
P. Sheehy
openaire   +3 more sources

‘Supreme Emergencies’, ontological holism, and rights to communal membership

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2015
This paper highlights the importance to just war theory of ontological questions about the constitution of personal identity. It does so through a critical reinterpretation of Michael Walzer’s invocation of a supreme emergency exemption to the principles of jus in bello.
J. T. Reiner
openaire   +2 more sources

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy