Pérez-González, Saúl (2020) Mechanistic explanations and components of social mechanisms. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 10 (35). ISSN 1879-4912
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Abstract
The past two decades have witnessed an increase in interest in social mechanisms and mechanistic explanations of social macro-phenomena. This paper addresses the question of what the components of social mechanisms in mechanistic explanations of social macro-phenomena must be. Analytical sociology’s initial position and the main new proposals by analytical sociologists are discussed. It is argued that all of them are faced with outstanding difficulties. Subsequently, a minimal requirement regarding the components of social mechanisms is introduced. It is held that a component of a social mechanism in a mechanistic explanation of a social macro-phenomenon must not have the explanandum phenomenon as a part of it.
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| Keywords: | mechanism; scientific explanation; analytical sociology; structural individualism. | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Sociology |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Saúl Pérez-González | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 18 Aug 2020 21:15 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 18 Aug 2020 21:15 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 18003 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | European Journal for Philosophy of Science | ||||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13194-0... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-020-00300-1 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Sociology |
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| Date: | 2020 | ||||||
| Volume: | 10 | ||||||
| Number: | 35 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1879-4912 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18003 |
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