Methodological Individualism

Petri Ylikoski
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Petri Ylikoski: University of Helsinki

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Abstract: This paper reviews controversies about methodological individualism and aims to sort out various debates ,motivations, and claims involved in the debate. It suggests some reasons why it is do difficult to be precise about MI and describes the dialectics of the debate. The long and unresolved history of MI is mostly explained by the ambiguity of more basic notions involved in its for- mulation. Thus, people have very different views about the content of MI. Also the emphasis on individuals might be partly misleading, as the real issue for many individualists seems to be agency rather than individuality as such.

Date: 2017-07-16
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