Confirmation holism and semantic holism
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Volume 109, Issue 1, p. 63-101
ISSN: 1573-0964
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In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Volume 109, Issue 1, p. 63-101
ISSN: 1573-0964
In: European business review, Volume 17, Issue 1
ISSN: 1758-7107
In: Philosophy of the social sciences: an international journal = Philosophie des sciences sociales, Volume 17, Issue 3, p. 427-433
ISSN: 1552-7441
In: European journal of political theory: EJPT, Volume 12, Issue 2, p. 205-216
ISSN: 1741-2730
In: Systems research and behavioral science: the official journal of the International Federation for Systems Research, Volume 24, Issue 4, p. 417-430
ISSN: 1099-1743
AbstractThis paper presents an inter‐level causal view of complex systems. It argues the need to go beyond causal reductionism, the limitations of the model of theory reduction in understanding and explaining the behaviour of complex systems, and the incompleteness of individualism methodology in explaining complex social organizational behaviours. It proposes a multi‐level and multi‐dimensional co‐evolutionary 'complex holism' to provide a new prospective for understanding organizational evolution and management. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
In: Systems research and behavioral science: the official journal of the International Federation for Systems Research, Volume 27, Issue 2, p. 200-207
ISSN: 1099-1743
AbstractCreative holism of Michael C. Jackson provides an insightful and enlightening research framework in making suitable use of various systems methodologies in combination for complex management situations, especially its metamethodology and coherent pluralism, which is a unique holistic analysis for dealing with the relationship between paradigm diversity and theoretical pluralism. However, in order to insist on pluralism, creative holism pays the price for giving up metatheory. In fact, the integral unity and plurality of it are not in opposition or exclusion. There is a necessary tension between holism and pluralism. Therefore, creative holism may further improve the relationship between its theory and metamethodology to give more prominence to its theoretical feature and practical value. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
In: European journal of political theory: EJPT, Volume 12, Issue 2, p. 205-216
ISSN: 1474-8851
In: Phenomenology and the cognitive sciences, Volume 12, Issue 3, p. 559-578
ISSN: 1572-8676
In: Inquiry: an interdisciplinary journal of philosophy and the social sciences, Volume 54, Issue 3, p. 226-251
ISSN: 1502-3923
In: Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology, p. 311-341
In: Journal of the Royal African Society, Volume XXVII, Issue CV, p. 95-96
ISSN: 1468-2621
In: Annual review of anthropology, Volume 38, Issue 1
ISSN: 1545-4290
In: L' année sociologique, Volume 58, Issue 2, p. 299-318
ISSN: 1969-6760
Ce texte vise à apporter une contribution à la discussion concernant le paradigme holiste en sciences sociales. Il soutient que la notion de « holisme », telle qu'elle est présentée traditionnellement, est ambiguë et englobe deux approches radicalement distinctes et inconciliables présentes dans les sciences sociales. Ces deux approches sont présentées ici en référence à deux parmi leurs principaux défenseurs : Durkheim pour l'une et Bourdieu pour l'autre. Après avoir présenté leurs traits principaux, cet article montrera leur incompatibilité, leur relation avec l'individualisme méthodologique et, enfin, l'importance aujourd'hui d'éviter l'assimilation entre ces deux visions de la sociologie.