Identifying the Explanatory Domain of the Looping Effect: Congruent and Incongruent Feedback Mechanisms of Interactive Kinds

Ian Hacking uses the looping effect to describe how classificatory practices in the human sciences interact with the classified people. While arguably this interaction renders the affected human kinds unstable and hence different from natural kinds, realists argue that also some prototypical natura...

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Main Author: Tuomas Vesterinen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Vienna 2022-03-01
Series:Journal of Social Ontology
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Online Access:https://journalofsocialontology.org/index.php/jso/article/view/6735