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Holistic social causation and explanation
pp. 305-318
Abstract
It has been regarded as a problem whether there can be genuine, irreducible causation in the social sciences. By such causation I mean causation that does not reduce to individual level causation. There is a parallel and related problem concerning psychological causation: Is there genuine, irreducible mental causation or is all causation purely physical in its nature? In this paper I will focus on holistic social causation.
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Dieks Dennis, Hartmann Stephan, Uebel Thomas, Weber Marcel, González Wenceslao J. (2011) Explanation, prediction, and confirmation. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 305-318
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1180-8_21
Full citation:
Tuomela Raimo (2011) „Holistic social causation and explanation“, In: D. Dieks, S. Hartmann, T. Uebel, M. Weber & W. J. González (eds.), Explanation, prediction, and confirmation, Dordrecht, Springer, 305–318.