Our target in this brief paper is the issue of holism vs. partism (to coin a term) considered from the points of view of representation, usually thought of as static and either consisting of a feature list or engaging properties of geometry, and process by which we infer properties like dynamism and mechanism. We approach these topics later from the perspectives of general recognition theory (G...

ductory material to the reprinting of this historic address might have given some information as to where and when the address was given. In this volume Professor Bews attempts a comprehensive ecological survey as a basis for a Holistic philosophy. Although most of the book deals with ecology on the sociological level, Professor Bews begins with a survey of ecological evolution and the simplest...

This article presents the figure of Tadeusz Czeżowski, creator concept meaning human life, formed in manner thinking proper to holism and environmental philosophy, called philosophical environmentalism. He considers life connection with other components nature society. An individual’s is fully meaningful when, pursuing their own purpose, they contribute purposes inherent ever-widening environme...

We put forward a new, ‘coherentist’ account of quantum entanglement, according to which entangled systems are characterized by symmetric relations ontological dependence among the component particles. compare this coherentist viewpoint with two most popular alternatives currently on offer—structuralism and holism—and argue that it is essentially different from, preferable to, both. In course ar...

Representationalists argue that phenomenal states are intentional states of a special kind. This paper offers an account of the kind of intentional state phenomenal states are: they are underived intentional states. This account of phenomenal states is equivalent to two theses: first, all possible phenomenal states are underived intentional states; second, all possible underived intentional sta...

Reductionists in biology claim that all biological events can be explained in terms of genes and macromolecules alone, while antireductionists argue that some biological events must be explained at a higher level. The literature, however, does not distinguish between different kinds of molecular explanation. The goal of this essay is to identify and analyze three such kinds. The analysis of mol...