Individualism and holism, reduction and pluralism: A comment on Keith Sawyer and Julie Zahle

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 527-535

  Van Bouwel, Jeroen ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Ctr for Logics and Philos of Sci

Author keywords

Methodological individualism; Nonreductive materialism; Pluralism; Pragmatics of explanation

Indexed keywords

EID: 8744242209     PISSN: 00483931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0048393104269198     Document Type: Review

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