Titlebook: Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate; Essays in the Philos Julie Zahle,Finn Collin Book 2014 Springer International Publishing Switze

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Actor-Centered Sociology and the New Pragmatismially constituted and socially situated individuals. This truism may be described as “methodological localism.” This does not imply that explanations must proceed from individual to social; but it does imply that we need to be confident that our hypotheses about social entities and processes have “m

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Three Issues in Social Ontologys are salient. The individualism issue is whether social laws impose a limit on individual autonomy from above; the atomism issue is whether social interactions serve from below as part of the infrastructure of intentional autonomy; and the singularism issue whether groups can rival individuals, ach

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Rethinking Micro-Macro Relationshe philosophy of mind debates is not fruitful and the micro-macro relations should not be conceptualized in terms of ‘levels’. This way of thinking is systematically misleading and fails to provide methodologically useful guidance. As a replacement the paper suggests an approach that consider micro-

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Dead Ends and Live Issues in the Individualism-Holism Debatedead and live issues in the traditional individualism-holism debate. The third section discusses standard reductionist theses about theory reduction. Arguments given for and against such claims has been conceptual in nature and thus to my mind misguided. However, the empirical evidence against reduc

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Explanatory Strategies Beyond the Individualism/Holism Debate a normative endorsement of the plurality of forms and levels of explanation used by social scientists. Equipped with this framework, central issues in the individualism/holism debate are revisited, namely emergence, reduction and the idea of microfoundations. Discussing these issues, we notice that

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Holism, Emergence, and the Crucial Distinction individualist explanations are able to do their explanatory job. Methodological individualists say they are, whereas methodological holists deny this. In the first part of the paper, I discuss Elder-Vass’ version of an influential argument in support of methodological holism, the argument from emer

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Who Are the Agents? Actor Network Theory, Methodological Individualism, and Reductionindividualism-holism issue. ANT moves the actor to the centre of the social stage, yet an actor different from anything that has been encountered before in the literature. The development of the basic ideas of ANT is traced as these ideas gradually evolved in the work of its chief protagonist, Bruno

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