Cultural Evolution, Reductionism in the Social Sciences, and Explanatory Pluralism  

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Lachapelle, Jean

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Philosophy of the Social Sciences vol. 30 no. 3 (Sep. 2000), page 331-361.
Fulltext: 331PSS303.pdf (117.91KB)

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This article argues that it is possible to bring the social sciences into evolutionary focus without being committed to a thesis the author calls ontological reductionism, which is a widespread predilection for lower-level explanations. After showing why we should reject ontological reductionism, the author argues that there is a way to construe cultural evolution that does justice to the autonomy of social science explanations. This paves the way for a liberal approach to explanation the author calls explanatory pluralism, which allows for the possibility of explaining cultural phenomena in terms of different evolutionary processes.

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