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Open Empirical and Methodological Issues in the Individualism-Holism Debate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Harold Kincaid
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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.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 82 , Issue 5 , December 2015 , pp. 1127 - 1138
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