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Methodological Individualism and Holism

Research Methods in the Social Sciences: An A-Z of key concepts, 2021
This chapter discusses methodological individualism and holism, which are often the focus of ontological debate. Methodological individualism (MI) is a paradigm in the social sciences that emerged from sociology and philosophy.
Suzan Gibril
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Holism Resurfacing: How Far Should We Go With It?

Metaphysica, 2021
The recent holistic trends in metaphysics are surveyed here and a tentative typology is offered. The non-linear mode of composition is suggested as the key feature of holism, apart from its familiar non-reductionism and emergentism.
Márta Ujvári
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Rethinking Meaning and Ontologies From the Perspective of Ontological Units

Applied Ontology
Ontologies enable knowledge sharing and interdisciplinary collaboration by providing standardized, structured vocabularies for diverse communities. While logical axioms are a cornerstone of ontology design, natural language elements such as annotations ...
P. Fabry, A. Barton, J. Éthier
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On the Dichotomy of Holism and Individualism in Social Metaphysics: Approaching Hegel’s View

Respublica Literaria
The paper gives a survey of contemporary research and thematizes the topics of ontological and methodological holism and individualism within social metaphysics, and does preparatory work for an examination of this issue from a Hegelian perspective.
Denis Maslov
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On Being and Becoming Human Through Accompaniment and Telos: Ontological Convergences Between Christian Anthropology and the Science of Human Development

Journal of psychology and theology
We discuss several points of convergence in ontological concepts within Christian anthropology and the contemporary dynamic, relational, developmental systems (RDS)-based approach within developmental science.
Richard M. Lerner, P. E. King, Elizabeth M. Dowling, Edmond P. Bowers   +3 more
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African Environmental Ethics and Its Ontological Foundations

Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy
The article carves out a tripartite ontology and related cosmological views, prevalent in many African philosophical accounts, and shows their significance for environmental ethics.
Franziska Dübgen
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Newton, the Parts of Space, and the Holism of Spatial Ontology

HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 2011
This article investigates the problem of the identity of the parts of space in Newton’s natural philosophy, as well as the holistic or structuralist nature of Newton’s ontology of space. Additionally, this article relates the lessons reached in this historical and philosophical investigation to analogous debates in contemporary space-time ontology ...
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Meaning Holism and Indeterminacy of Reference in Ontologies (Extended Abstract)

Proceedings of the Thirty-ThirdInternational Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
According to meaning holism, the meanings of all the words in a language are interdependent. If this was true, then the very practice of building largely interconnected set of ontologies would be threatened. We examine here the extent of the severity of meaning holism for ontology engineering, based on a definition of the meaning of a class term in an ...
Adrien Barton, Paul Fabry, Jean-François Ethier   +2 more
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Metaphysics of Soul, Universal Spirit, and Consciousness

International Journal of Jungian Studies
Jon Mills’ and Erik Goodwyn’s (2023) work Archetypal Origins establishes a foundation for ongoing dialogue about metaphysical origins for Jungian Psychology.
Ryan J. Holsapple
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Newton’s Immobility Arguments and the Holism of Spatial Ontology

2016
For those philosophers of space and time inclined towards a structuralist, third-way approach to ontology, Newton’s defense of the immobility of the parts of space is often regarded as a powerful historical precedent, prompting a host of structuralist-leaning commentary over the past several decades.
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