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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Main Author: Hauswald Rico
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2016-08-01
Series:Journal of Social Ontology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2015-0049