The Ontology of Interactive Kinds

Bibliographic Data

ID2436483
AuthorsRico Hauswald (Technische Universität Dresden, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume2
Issue2
Pages203-221
Publication date2016-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social Ontology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2196-9663 • E-ISSN: 2196-9655
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/jso-2015-0049
OpenAlexW2507234187
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited14

This paper defends the notions of an interactive kind and a looping effect as features of social and human scientific classifications and aims to give a realist interpretation of them. I argue that interactive kinds can best be modeled as a special case of changing causal property cluster kinds. In order to do so, I develop a typology of looping effects according to the sort of entities that are affected, the main types of which are individual-looping, category-looping, and kind-looping. Based on this distinction, I identify interactive kinds as those causal property cluster kinds that are subjected to kind-looping

Cluster (spacecraft · Epistemology · Information retrieval · Interpretation (philosophy · Property (philosophy · Sociology · sort · Typology · Computer Science · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Language and cultural evolution · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology

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