Apithology: An Emergent Continuum
Apithology is the field of study concerned with identifying and enhancing the dynamics that enable the healthy development of emergent systems. In this paper the definitional premise of the discipline of apithology is explained and reasons are provided why the depth of practice in this field is predicted to increase. To illustrate the predominant orientation from this frame the term ‘apithology’ is contrasted with its conceptual antonym, bein read more
Aspects of Apithology: Orientations in the Four Potentials of Health
This paper identifies four aspects of health and wellbeing. These are described from within the discipline of apithology, introducing an apithological perspective on health for the first time. The four aspects disclose four different and distinctive resulting potentials. A framework representing these four potentials is proposed as a conceptual landscape to allow meaningful orientating generalizations to be formed. The four potentials are defined read more
Dimensions of Health: Locating Conceptions of Health and Causation
This article contains further refinements in the process of definition of apithological systems. It introduces a methodology for discerning conceptions of health and wellbeing by identifying two dimensions within which the qualities of consciousness operating can be described. This process for discerning conceptions of health using the central reference points of perceptions of normalcy and the proximity of effects is outlined. Different concepti read more
Balancing Dynamic Tensions: Pathology in Apithological Systems
This paper progresses the analysis of apithological systems by examining the dynamic tensions within each of the four aspects of apithology. Identified within each of the four aspects are four distinct configurations of two different tensions. The balances in these resultant forces provide each aspect with its own unique orientation. This assists an understanding of the causative dynamics of the formation of conceptions. An explanation of the cha read more
Generativity and Coaction: Relations in a Contribution Analysis
This paper examines the fifth component in the process of an initial apithology analysis being the coaction relationships between identifiable conceptions and their perceptual environments. The nine major forms of coaction potential are described and reframed using an apithological perspective. The nature of the different coaction configurations are outlined, together with their consequences. The article concludes with observations regarding the read more