The paper discusses Sosa’s view of intuitional knowledge and raises the question of the nature of refl ective justifi cation of intuitional beliefs. It is assumed, in agreement with Sosa, that pieces of belief of good researchers are typically refl ectively justifi ed, in addition to being immediately, fi rst-level justifi ed. Sosa has convincingly argued that refl ective justifi cation typical...

A brief acquaintance with the web shows that the terms ‘holism’ and ‘compositionality’ are used in many different fields, both academic and non-academic. And given any two academic fields, it is usually not obvious that the terms mean the same to the practitioners. Even just within philosophy and linguistics it seems that rather different conceptions are in play when we read any two different a...

Technological advances and economic, social, and cultural conditions have created a climate of change in the health care arena. The re-emergence of the holistic health care paradigms has begun to induce a revolution in the health care system. New roles and approaches are developing in relation to the holistic health movement. Since holistic thinking is diverse, an introduction among eastern phi...

Churchill and Churchill’s editorial discusses negative (health) effects of commercialism in the provision of health care and nutrition. Three parts of their argument are commented: the claim that the fundamental problem of markets is the decomposition of the whole into parts (“reductionism”); the call for individual responsibility; and the notion of holism. On the three aspects the commentary c...