How to Circumscribe Individualist Explanations: A Reply to Elder-Vass

TY - JOUR

T1 - How to Circumscribe Individualist Explanations

T2 - A Reply to Elder-Vass

AU - Zahle, Julie

PY - 2014/12/8

Y1 - 2014/12/8

N2 - In “Redescription, Reduction, and Emergence: A Response to Tobias Hansson Wahlberg,” Elder-Vass takes the opportunity to reply to my criticism of his theory in “Holism, Emergence, and the Crucial Distinction.” In this response, I show how methodological individualists may respond to his argument against their position and I argue that Elder-Vass fails to provide reasons as to why his particular distinction between individualist and holist explanations should be adopted.

AB - In “Redescription, Reduction, and Emergence: A Response to Tobias Hansson Wahlberg,” Elder-Vass takes the opportunity to reply to my criticism of his theory in “Holism, Emergence, and the Crucial Distinction.” In this response, I show how methodological individualists may respond to his argument against their position and I argue that Elder-Vass fails to provide reasons as to why his particular distinction between individualist and holist explanations should be adopted.

U2 - 10.1177/0048393114530857

DO - 10.1177/0048393114530857

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0048-3931

VL - 44

SP - 810

EP - 816

JO - Philosophy of the Social Sciences

JF - Philosophy of the Social Sciences

IS - 6

ER -