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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 | |