Towards a Deflationary Truthmakers Account of Social Groups
(2023) In Erkenntnis- Abstract
- I outline a deflationary truthmakers account of social groups. Potentially, the approach allows us to say, with traditional ontological individualists, that there are only pluralities of individuals out there, ontologically speaking, but that there are nevertheless colloquial and social-scientific truths about social groups. If tenable, this kind of theory has the virtue of being both ontologically parsimonious and compatible with ordinary and social-scientific discourse – a virtue which the stock reductive / ontological dependence accounts of social groups arguably lack.
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- author
- Hansson Wahlberg, Tobias LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- epub
- subject
- keywords
- social groups, truthmakers, reduction, omtological dependence, social groups, social ontology, reductionism, ontological dependence, truthmaking, causation, ontological individualism
- in
- Erkenntnis
- pages
- 18 pages
- publisher
- Springer
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85160849437
- ISSN
- 1572-8420
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10670-023-00701-7
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- c6430d1c-7f29-4924-999e-203642ed26e3
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- 2023-05-24 17:22:15
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title = {{Towards a Deflationary Truthmakers Account of Social Groups}},
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