Those looking for holism in contemporary physics have focused their attention primarily on quantum entanglement. But some gauge theories arguably also manifest the related phenomenon of nonseparability. While the argument is strong for the classical gauge theory describing electromagnetic interactions with quantum “particles”, it fails in the case of general relativity even though that theory m...

This paper is devoted to discuss a general tendency in contextualism which is known as "radical contextualism". In the first part I state the well known paradox of semantic holism, as discussed in philosophy of language: if meaning is holistic there is no possibility to share any meaning. In the second part I present the different answers to this paradox, from atomism to different forms of holi...

Introduction In anthropology, the primary goal is understanding the human condition, what makes humans human or explaining human variation and change. To critically assess what a given theory has to offer anthropological attempts to understand the human condition requires a detailed understanding of a theory and its components. For some it may seem that there is a contradiction between the goal...

A bivalent valuation is snt iff sound (standard PC inference rules take truths only into truths) and non-trivial (not all wffs are assigned the same truth value). Such a valuation is normal iff classically correct for each connective. Carnap knew that there were nion-normal snt valuations of PC, and that the gap they revealed between syntax and semantics could be "jumped" as follows. Let VALS.t...

This paper examines the conflation of vital and aesthetic norms in the practice of Nazi medicine, and eugenic practices. It argues that biological holism, though it served as the vehicle of Nazi ideology historically, did so contingently. The anti-totalitarian thinking of biological holist Kurt Goldstein speaks against the irrevocable use of biological holism to promote Nazi ideologies.

How do we find holism in the aftermath of disasters? This is the author's personal account of being deployed as a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and meeting two survivors in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. This article tells how she learned from survivors' stories and music about healing and holis...

Several of the authors point out that while the origins of medical holism (as an oppositional movement) go back to the late nineteenth century, it attracted particular attention between the world wars. Although surprisingly few of them attempt to explain this renaissance, in aggregate these essays none the less tell us quite a lot about the conditions which fostered interwar holism. To begin wi...