Redescription, Reduction, and Emergence: A Response to Tobias Hansson Wahlberg
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Published online on December 31, 2013
Abstract
In response to Hansson Wahlberg, this paper argues, first, that he misunderstands the redescription principle developed in my book The Causal Power of Social Structures, and second, that his criticisms rest on an ontological individualism that is taken for granted but in fact lacks an adequate ontological justification of its own.