Causally Redundant Social Objects
Rejoinder to Elder-Vass
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10928116 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tobias Hansson Wahlberg (0000-0001-5079-752X, Lund University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 798-809 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy of the Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-3931 • E-ISSN: 1552-7441 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0048393114521364 |
| OpenAlex | W2171302287 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 34 |
In Elder-Vass’s response to my critical discussion of his social ontology, it is maintained (1) that a social object is not identical with but is merely composed of its suitably interrelated parts, (2) that a social object is necessarily indistinguishable in terms of its causal capacities from its interrelated parts, and (3) that ontological individualism lacks an adequate ontological justification. In this reply, I argue that in view of (1) the so-called redescription principle defended by Elder-Vass ought to be reformulated and renamed; that the conjunction of (1) and (2) renders social objects causally redundant; and that ontological individualism can be coherently formulated and theoretically justified within Elder-Vass’s own metaphysics of objects with causal powers
Epistemology · Individualism · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Methodological individualism · Object (grammar) · Ontology · Political science · Social ontology · Sociology · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Law · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology · Social Psychology
Towards a Deflationary Truthmakers Account of Social Groups
How to Circumscribe Individualist Explanations
Sawyer’s Theory of Social Causation
Emergence within social systems
The creation of institutional reality, special theory of relativity, and mere Cambridge change
Mapping higher-level causal efficacy
Causal powers and social ontology
Why the social sciences are irreducible
Redefining emergence
Social emergence and unpredictability
Objects and Persons
Explaining Social Behavior
Getting Causes from Powers
Naming and Necessity
Making Sense of Emergence
The Non-Identity of a Material Thing and Its Matter
Composition as a Fiction
The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics
The Disorder of Things
The Dappled World
Powers and Capacities in Philosophy
The Causal Power of Social Structures
Reductionism and its heuristics
On that which is not
There are no ordinary things
On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time
Composition as Identity
Do Causal Powers Drain Away
For Emergence
Elder-Vass on the Causal Power of Social Structures
Redescription, Reduction, and Emergence
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.83 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |