Nonreductive Individualism Part I—Supervenience and Wild Disjunction  

Oleh:

Sawyer, R. Keith

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Philosophy of the Social Sciences vol. 32 no. 4 (Des. 2002), page 537-559.
Fulltext: 537PSS324.pdf (93.49KB)

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The author draws on arguments fromcontemporary philosophy of mind to provide an argument for sociological collectivism. This argument for nonreductive individualism accepts that only individuals exist but rejects methodological individualism. In Part I, the author presents the argument for nonreductive individualism by working through the implications of supervenience, multiple realizability, and wild disjunction in some detail. In Part II, he extends the argument to provide a defense for social causal laws, and this account of social causation does not require any commitment to intentionality or agency on the part of individuals.

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