The morphogenetic approach and immanent causality

A spinozian perspective

Bibliographic Data

ID8098817
AuthorsKarim Knio (0000-0001-6862-052X, Institute of Social Studies (ISS) Erasmus University Rotterdam The Netherlands, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume48
Issue4
Pages398-415
Publication date2018-07-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jtsb.12181
OpenAlexW2864428283
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited26

The morphogenetic approach as powered by analytical dualism offers an appealing account of the processes whereby people – through their reflexivities – reflect back on structures and cultures during the double and triple morphogenesis of agency. However, in order to further specify an account of social change, this paper argues that it would be helpful to provide an account of what occurs in the other direction as well: from the direction of structures and cultures, between each other and towards people, also at the points of double and triple morphogenesis of agency. This article is therefore a theoretical piece that proposes a reading of the morphogenetic model imbued with an enlightened understanding of immanent causality, driven by the Spinozian doctrine of parallelism and operationalized by his understanding of the two expressive roles of ideas

Agency (philosophy · Business · Causality (physics · Cognitive science · Doctrine · Dualism · Epistemology · Linguistics · Operationalization · Order (exchange · Parallelism (grammar · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Reading (process · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Critical Realism in Sociology · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · Law · Marxism and Critical Theory · Philosophy · Psychology

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