What is a (social) structural explanation?
A philosophically useful account of social structure must accommodate the fact that social structures play an important role in structural explanation. But what is a structural explanation? How do structural explanations function in the social sciences? This paper offers a way of thinking about stru...
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| author | Haslanger, Sally |
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| description | A philosophically useful account of social structure must accommodate the fact that social structures play an important role in structural explanation. But what is a structural explanation? How do structural explanations function in the social sciences? This paper offers a way of thinking about structural explanation and sketches an account of social structure that connects social structures with structural explanation. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/970402022-10-02T03:23:47Z What is a (social) structural explanation? Haslanger, Sally Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Haslanger, Sally Haslanger, Sally A philosophically useful account of social structure must accommodate the fact that social structures play an important role in structural explanation. But what is a structural explanation? How do structural explanations function in the social sciences? This paper offers a way of thinking about structural explanation and sketches an account of social structure that connects social structures with structural explanation. 2015-05-20T15:45:00Z 2015-05-20T15:45:00Z 2015-01 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0031-8116 1573-0883 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97040 Haslanger, Sally. “What Is a (social) Structural Explanation?” Philosophical Studies (January 9, 2015). en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-014-0434-5 Philosophical Studies Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Springer-Verlag Haslanger |
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