Overview
- Introduces and covers the newest developments in the individualism/holism debate
- Offers the most recent collection of papers on this topic, since 1973
- Presents papers by key figures within the debate, from both philosophy and social science
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 372)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Ontological Individualism-Holism
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Front Matter
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Methodological Individualism-Holism
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Back Matter
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About this book
This collection of papers investigates the most recent debates about individualism and holism in the philosophy of social science. The debates revolve mainly around two issues: firstly, whether social phenomena exist sui generis and how they relate to individuals. This is the focus of discussions between ontological individualists and ontological holists. Secondly, to what extent social scientific explanations may and should, focus on individuals and social phenomena respectively. This issue is debated amongst methodological holists and methodological individualists.
In social science and philosophy, both issues have been intensively discussed and new versions of the dispute have appeared just as new arguments have been advanced. At present, the individualism/holism debate is extremely lively and this book reflects the major positions and perspectives within the debate. This volume is also relevant to debates about two closely related issues in social science: the micro-macro debate and the agency-structure debate.
This book presents contributions from key figures in both social science and philosophy, in the first such collection on this topic to be published since the 1970s.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate
Book Subtitle: Essays in the Philosophy of Social Science
Editors: Julie Zahle, Finn Collin
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05344-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-05343-1Published: 25 June 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34676-2Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-05344-8Published: 05 June 2014
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 255
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences