Holism in Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Physics

The Scope of the Project The concept of holism is at the centre of far-reaching changes in various areas of philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century. Holism in epistemology and the philosophy of mind is widespread among analytic philosophers subsequent to the work of the later Wittgenstein and to Quine''s "Two Dogmas of Empiricism". Roughly speaking, the claim is that (a) for a perso...