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Social science as a guide to social metaphysics?

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06/2018
Author
Hawley, Katherine Jane
Keywords
Social science
Social ontology
Social metaphysics
Scientific realism
Conceptual analysis
Ameliorative
H Social Sciences (General)
B Philosophy (General)
T-NDAS
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Abstract
If we are sympathetic to the project of naturalising metaphysics, how should we approach the metaphysics of the social world? What role can the social sciences play in metaphysical investigation? In the light of these questions, this paper examines three possible approaches to social metaphysics: inference to the best explanation from current social science, conceptual analysis, and Haslanger-inspired ameliorative projects.
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Hawley , K J 2018 , ' Social science as a guide to social metaphysics? ' , Journal for General Philosophy of Science , vol. 49 , no. 2 , pp. 187-198 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-017-9389-5
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Journal for General Philosophy of Science
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-017-9389-5
ISSN
0925-4560
Type
Journal article
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Copyright The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Work on this paper was supported by a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust.
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