Hansson Wahlberg, Tobias (2018) Causal Powers and Social Ontology. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Over the last few decades, philosophers and social scientists have applied the so-called powers ontology to the social domain. I argue that this application is highly problematic: many of the alleged powers in the social realm violate the intrinsicality condition, and those that can be coherently taken to be intrinsic to their bearers are arguably causally redundant. I end the paper by offering a diagnosis of why philosophers and social scientists have been tempted to think that there are powers in social realm.
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| Keywords: | causal powers; causation; critical realism; deontic powers; emergence; dispositions; extrinsic; intrinsic; social ontology | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Sociology |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Tobias Hansson Wahlberg | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2018 21:18 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2018 21:18 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 14460 | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | SYNT-D-17-00782R2 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Sociology |
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| Date: | 2018 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14460 |
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