The Ontology of Interactive Kinds
This paper defends the notions of an interactive kind and a looping effect as features of social and human scientific classifications and aims to give a realist interpretation of them. I argue that interactive kinds can best be modeled as a special case of changing causal property cluster kinds. In...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2016-08-01
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Series: | Journal of Social Ontology |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2015-0049 |