Organisation, Emergence and Cambridge Social Ontology

Yannick Slade-Caffarel ()
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Yannick Slade-Caffarel: PHARE - Philosophie, Histoire et Analyse des Représentations Économiques - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, King‘s College London

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Abstract: Abstract John Searle has mistakenly claimed that emergence is the central concept in the account of social ontology defended by Tony Lawson, the central figure in the project now regularly referred to as Cambridge Social Ontology. This is not the case. Rather, if any concept can be considered central for Lawson, it is organisation. In this paper, I explain how Searle could misunderstand Lawson and, in doing so, I bring out the importance of organisation for understanding how phenomena, both social and non‐social, are constituted.

Keywords: Causal Reduction; Downward Causation; Emergence; Ontology; Organisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-08-29
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Published in Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 2020, 50 (3), pp.391-408. ⟨10.1111/jtsb.12251⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.12251

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