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  1. Die Maschinentheorie des Lebens. [REVIEW]Seba Eldridge - 1931 - Journal of Philosophy 28 (17):473-474.
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  • Zwischen scylla und charybdis.Adolf Meyer - 1936 - Acta Biotheoretica 1 (3):203-218.
    In comparing it with the mechanistic and vitalistic views, the author seeks to make clear the nature of holistic causality, referring toDonnan's equations as an example.Holistic causality is essentially dimensional simplification. A complex system which forms a whole must be described in the first instance autonomo-phenomenologically, and if possible mathematically. Thereafter it is simplified into other wholes of less dimensionality, through progressive elimination of its higher dimensions, and so on until there remain over constituents no longer showing „wholeness”. These are (...)
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  • Les fondements scientifiques de l'holisme.A. C. Léemann - 1937 - Acta Biotheoretica 3 (3):153-166.
    Scientific description of Nature is here based on geometry, number and energy. Geometry and number are the two only forms of our mind by which we describe Nature. Energy is here considered as the ultimate entity, which in physics is defined by the help of six propreties. The author holds that for an adequate description of physical Nature seven propreties of energy are required and eight are necessary in biology adding the holistic tendencies. On this basis an attempt is made (...)
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  • Das problem der „ganzheit” in der biologie.Herman J. Jordan - 1935 - Acta Biotheoretica 1 (1-2):100-112.
    Life as a complicated process is composed of causal phenomena. But even if we know the reasons of all that happens in a living organism, we do not know what life really is. The problem of intercausal relation, of “causal structure” remains. The reason why a process takes place, must be found by analysis, causal structures are found by synthesis of the results of this analysis. Causal structures are characterized by two kinds of equilibrium: energetic and specific equilibrium. A state (...)
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  • Zur kritik Des „holismus”.Hans Driesch - 1936 - Acta Biotheoretica 1 (3):185-202.
  • Integral analysis and the phenomena of lifeDie Integralanalyse und die LebenserscheinungenL'Analyse intégrale et les phénomènes de la vie.F. G. Donnan - 1936 - Acta Biotheoretica 2 (1):1-11.
    Der Beschreibung der zeitlichen Entwicklung lebender Systeme kann eine reine Differentialanalyse nicht genügen. In solchen Fällen muss man sich an Stelle der gewöhnlichen Differentialgleichungen der integraldifferentiellen, bezw. der Integralgleichungen bedienen. Zur leichteren Veranschaulichung der mathematischen Darstellung betrachtet Verfasser zuerst diejenigen Systeme, deren innerer Zustand sich durch ein einziges Parameterc bestimmen lässt. Die zeitliche Entwicklung eines leblosen Systems dieser Klasse werde durch die Differentialgleichung $$\frac{{dc}}{{dt}} = kf...$$ dargestellt, wot=Zeit, undk eine Funktion der äusseren Parameterα, Β, γ. ist. Im Falle eines jeden (...)
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  • Kritische betrachtungen zum holismus.Erwin Bünning - 1936 - Acta Biotheoretica 1 (3):173-184.
    The author rejects the theory of holism and criticises especiallyA. Meyer's works. An important starting point ofMeyer's arguments consists in the opinion that the physiologists of to day are out of days because they still want to base biology on classical physics which has been superseded by the “Quantenmechanik” . As organisms, however, are not microphysical systems — as may be proved —Meyer's arguments become futile. Also the opinion that the qualities of the whole are not determined by those of (...)
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  • The Philosophical Basis of Biology.John Scott Haldane - 1931 - [London]Hodder & Stoughton.
  • Holism and Evolution.J. C. Smuts - 1927 - International Journal of Ethics 37 (3):314-314.
     
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  • Holism and Evolution.J. C. Smuts - 1927 - Humana Mente 2 (5):93-97.
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  • Die Maschinentheorie des Lebens.Julius Schultz - 1910 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 70:523-525.
     
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  • La Physico-Chimie peut-elle intégralement expliquer des phénomènes biologiques? Première Partie.A. C. Léemann - 1937 - Scientia 31 (61):31.
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  • Der Vitalismus als Geschichte und als Lehre.Hans Driesch - 1905 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 60:423-426.
     
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