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Redescription, reduction, and emergence: a response to Tobias Hansson Wahlberg

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posted on 2015-05-05, 14:32 authored by Dave Elder-Vass
In response to Hansson Wahlberg (2013), this paper argues, first, that he misunderstands the redescription principle developed in my book The Causal Power of Social Structures, and second, that his criticisms rest on an ontological individualism that is taken for granted but in fact lacks an adequate ontological justification of its own.

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

Published in

PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

Volume

44

Issue

6

Pages

792 - 797 (6)

Citation

ELDER-VASS, D.J., 2014. Redescription, reduction, and emergence: a response to Tobias Hansson Wahlberg. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 44 (6), pp.792-797.

Publisher

Sage (© The Author 2013)

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2014

Notes

The final published version of this paper can be found at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0048393113515386

ISSN

0048-3931

Language

  • en