Open Empirical and Methodological Issues in the Individualism-Holism Debate. Issue 5 (December 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kincaid, Harold
• Is Part Of: Philosophy of science. Volume 82:Issue 5(2015)
• Page Start: 1127
• Page End: 1138
• Publication Date: 2015-12
• Subjects: Science -- Periodicals; Science -- Philosophy; Science; Science -- Philosophy; Philosophie des sciences; Epistemology; Periodicals; 501
• DOI: 10.1086/683445
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1539-767X

Abstract

Abstract : I first briefly argue that some issues in the individualism-holism debate have been fairly clearly settled and others are still plagued by unclarity. The main argument of the article is that there is a set of clear empirical issues around the holism-individualism debate that are central problems in current social science research. Those include questions about when we can be holist and how individualist we can be in social explanation.