From an indigenous and holistic perspective, the current dominant biomedical model of health and illness has a limited view of people and their wellbeing. The present study aimed to explore Māori spiritual healers' views on healing and healing practices, and the implications of these for conceptualisations of holism, health and wellbeing. Six indigenous Māori in Aotearoa/New Zealand took part i...

Faces are an important and unique class of visual stimuli, and have been of interest to neuroscientists for many years. Faces are known to elicit certain characteristic behavioral markers, collectively labeled "holistic processing", while non-face objects are not processed holistically. However, little is known about the underlying neural mechanisms. The main aim of this computational simulatio...

T adverse consequences of maternal alcohol intake during pregnancy on fetal outcome are well documented (for a review, see Meyer and Riley 1986). However, the possibility that paternal alcohol consump­ tion also may induce deficits in the proge­ ny has received relatively little attention. This is somewhat surprising, as alco­ holism appears to be linked genetically with the father in humans (M...

In a recent article, Ms. Brozzo (2020) supposed that some perfumes were works of art on the grounds they met ‘hard’ definitions art. This, however, is predicated upon definitive holism not true. Her argument also founded several which she has taken axiomatically, despite their being too contentious to allow for this, and her every condition olfactory cleared by non-art.

Against the windmills of semantic holism and neo-empiricism, Quixote Fodor brandishes his metaphysical lance scientific realism. The result is a Pyrrhic victory, since, while he manages to provide plausible explanation for mental mechanisms belief fixation, claim common sense psychology must resort circular argument that properties are part order world. His merit, however, indisputable: truth n...

holism versus reductionism, process algebra, object orientated programming, philosophy of biology One of the great current debates in biology concerns whether the observed behaviour of a system can be accounted for in terms of the behaviours of its subcomponents. The problem is often presented as a question of ‘holism versus reductionism’; whether ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts...

This paper addresses arguments that “separability” is an assumption of Bell’s theorem, and that abandoning this assumption in our interpretation of quantum mechanics (a position sometimes referred to as “holism”) will allow us to restore a satisfying locality principle. Separability here means that all events associated to the union of some set of disjoint regions are combinations of events ass...