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SUMMARY:How autonomous are social scientific explanations? - Christopher C
 larke (HPS\, Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Vashka dos Remedios
DESCRIPTION:How do explanations given in terms of groups and their social 
 properties relate to explanations given in terms of individuals and their 
 non-social\nproperties? Three options:\n\n(A) Sometimes social-level expla
 nations are better than the best individual-level explanations\; sometimes
  not\;\n\n(B) Social-level explanations are never better than the best ind
 ividual-level explanations (indeed typically the latter is better than the
  former)\n\n(C) Typically neither is better than the other\; instead they 
 compliment each other\n\n(B) is also known as methodological individualism
 \, which is normally rejected in the literature in favour of holist (A) or
  pluralist (C). This is a mistake\, I think. I argue for (B) in both its w
 eak and strong versions.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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