Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate Essays in the Philosophy

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 ind

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Julie Zahle Finn Collin Editors

Rethinking the IndividualismHolism Debate Essays in the Philosophy of Social Science

Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate

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STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Editor-in-Chief LUCIANO FLORIDI, University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute, United Kingdom

Editors THEO A.F. KUIPERS, University of Groningen Fac. Philosophy, The Netherlands TEDDY SEIDENFELD, Carnegie Mellon University Dept. Philosophy, USA PATRICK SUPPES, Stanford University Ctr. Study of Language & Information, USA ´ SKI, Jagiellonian University of Krakow Institute of Philosophy, JAN WOLEN Poland DIRK VAN DALEN, Utrecht University Department of Philosophy, The Netherlands

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Julie Zahle • Finn Collin Editors

Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate Essays in the Philosophy of Social Science

Editors Julie Zahle Department of Media, Cognition and Communication University of Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark

Finn Collin Department of Media, Cognition and Communication University of Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark

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