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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is Holism? Proposal for a General Conception | |
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| Requirements for a General Conception of Holism | |
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| Proposal for a General Conception of Holism | |
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| Step 1: Generic Ontological Dependence | |
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| Step 2: Properties that make Something a Constituent Part | |
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| Result: Proposal for a General Conception of Holism | |
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| Is the Proposed Conception Substantial? | |
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| Two Types of Holism | |
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| Arguments for Holism About Beliefs | |
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| The Argument from Confirmation | |
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| The Duhem--Quine Thesis | |
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| From Confirmation Holism to Semantic Holism | |
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| Is Quine's Argument for Holism Convincing? | |
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| The Argument from Interpretation | |
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| The Argument from Inferential Role | |
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| Tasks for an Inferential Role Semantics | |
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| Inferential Role and Shared Beliefs | |
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| Inferential Role as Social Role | |
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| Meaning through Use in a Community | |
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| Inferential Role in a Public Language | |
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| Inferential Semantics based on Normative Pragmatics | |
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| From Social Holism to Holism About Beliefs | |
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| The Problem of Rule-Following | |
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| What is the Problem of Rule-Following? | |
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| Rule-Following as Motivation for Social Holism | |
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| Social Holism | |
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| Meaning through Social Practices: The Argument for Social Holism | |
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| Objections to the Argument for Social Holism | |
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| Social Practices in terms of I--Thou Relations | |
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| An Argument for Social Holism and Holism about Beliefs | |
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| Holism as Revision of the Cartesian Tradition | |
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| What is the Cartesian Tradition in Philosophy of Mind? | |
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| Direct Realism versus Representational Realism | |
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| Holism and Externalism | |
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| Social Externalism | |
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| Externalism about Singular Beliefs | |
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| Externalism about Natural Kind Concepts | |
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| Holism and the Relation Between Mind and World | |
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| From Inference to Representation | |
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| Holism and Realism | |
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| Open-ended I--Thou Relations | |
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| Rule-Following and Response-Dependence | |
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| A Pragmatic Realism | |
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| Social Practices in a Physical Environment | |
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| A Comprehensive Holism? | |
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| A Pragmatic Conception of Rationality | |
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| Holism and the Metaphysics of Mind | |
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| Holism and Anti-Reductionism | |
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| What is the Resulting View of Ourselves? | |
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| Overview of Holism in Philosophy of Mind | |
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| Cartesianism in Physics and Holism About Space or Space-Time | |
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| A Basis for Holism in Descartes' Philosophy of Physics | |
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| Spinoza's Theory of Extension | |
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| Holism about Matter as Holism about Space | |
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| Holism about Space and the Conception of Motion | |
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| Holism about Space and the Philosophy of General Relativity | |
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| Holism about Matter as Holism about Space-Time | |
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| Proposed Philosophical Consequences of Relativity Physics | |
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| The Basis for Holism in Quantum Physics | |
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| New Conceptual Features of Quantum Theory | |
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| Observables and States | |
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| Incompatible Observables | |
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| Entangled States | |
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| The Case of Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen | |
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| The Principles of Separability and Local Action | |
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| Einstein's Argument for the Incompleteness of Quantum Theory | |
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| Bell's Theorem and the Philosophical Implications | |
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| Bell's Theorem and the Bell Experiments | |
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| Non-Locality and the Bell Experiments | |
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| "Experimental Metaphysics" | |
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| The Meaning of Quantum Holism | |
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| Commitments in the Interpretation of Quantum Theory | |
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| An Ontological Interpretation without Hidden Variables | |
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| A Minimal Requirement for an Ontological Interpretation | |
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| Entanglement at the Microphysical Level of Nature | |
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| The Failure of Supervenience and Separability | |
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| Non-Supervenient Relations | |
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| Non-Supervenient Properties of the Whole | |
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| Non-Separability | |
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| Proposal for a Characterization of Quantum Holism | |
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| No Separate Properties | |
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| Matter as a Holistic System at the Quantum Level | |
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| Are Quantum Systems Individuals? | |
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| A Brief Glimpse at Quantum Field Theory | |
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| The Revision of the Cartesian Tradition in Physics | |
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| The Extension of Quantum Holism and the Philosophy of Mind | |
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| The Measurement Problem | |
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| Is Quantum Holism Universal? | |
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| The Many Minds Interpretation | |
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| The Option for Universal Quantum Holism | |
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| Universal Quantum Holism and Cartesian Epistemology | |
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| Complementarity of Mind and Matter? | |
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| Limited Quantum Holism | |
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| Limited Quantum Holism and the Measurement Problem | |
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| Limited Quantum Holism and Reductionism | |
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| A Plea for Caution | |
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| The Mutual Enrichment of Quantum Holism and Holism in Philosophy of Mind | |
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| A Common Conceptual Content | |
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| Holism, Indeterminacy and Eliminativism | |
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| Holism and Supervenience | |
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| Holism and a New Sort of Realism | |
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| References | |
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| Index of Names | |
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| Index of Subjects | |