Data di Pubblicazione:
2022
Citazione:
Rescuing Ontological Individualism / F. Guala. - In: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. - ISSN 0031-8248. - 89:3(2022), pp. 471-485. [Epub ahead of print] [10.1017/psa.2021.35]
Abstract:
Standard defenses of ontological individualism are challenged by arguments that exploit the dependence of social facts on material facts—that is, facts that are not about human individuals. In this article, I discuss Brian Epstein’s “materialism” in The Ant Trap: granting Epstein’s strict definition of individualism, I show that his arguments depend crucially on a generous conception of social properties and social facts. Individualists, however, are only committed to the claim that projectible properties are individualistically realized, and materialists have not undermined this claim.
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01 - Articolo su periodico
Elenco autori:
F. Guala
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