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In this review essay I examine the central tenets of sociologist Dave Elder-Vass’s recent contribution to social ontology, as put forth in his book The Causal Power of Social Structures: Emergence, Structure and Agency (2010). Elder-Vass takes issue with ontological individualists and maintains that social structures exist and have causal powers in their own right. I argue that he fails to establish his main theses: he shows neither that social structures have causal powers “in their own right” (in any sense of this expression) nor that they exist.
Originalspråk | engelska |
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Sidor (från-till) | 774-791 |
Tidskrift | Philosophy of the Social Sciences |
Volym | 44 |
Utgåva | 6 |
DOI | |
Status | Published - 2014 |
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- Filosofi
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Metaphysics and Collectivity
Petersson, B., Blomberg, O., Björnsson, G., Brännmark, J., Burman, Å., Hansson Wahlberg, T., Lo Presti, P., Maurin, A., Smid, J. & Szigeti, A.
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