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方法论个体主义、结构限制和社会复杂性 (Methodological Individualism, Structural Constraints and Social Complexity)
No full textCognitive Autonomy and Methodological Individualism: The Interpretative Foundations of Social Life
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Methodological Individualism and Reductionism
No full textThis chapter analyzes the relationship between methodological individualism (MI) and reductionism. While the latter term is mainly used in reference to MI with a negative meaning, i.e. as a synonym of a naively atomistic and non-structural approach, it is also, though rarely, used to couch MI in terms of a non-atomistic micro-foundationalism that is compatible with systemic explanations (e.g. Elster). This chapter investigates the legitimacy of the pejorative use of the term reductionism with respect to MI. Three points are developed. First, the chapter argues that two different kinds of interpretation of MI in terms of naively atomistic reductionism can be distinguished: one in terms of psychological reductionism and the other in terms of semantic reductionism, the latter of which has a nominalist and an anti-nominalist variant. Second, the chapter explains why the different interpretations of MI in terms of naively atomistic reductionism are unfounded. Third, the chapter analyzes and criticizes the view that MI must be replaced by a new anti-reductionist approach understood as a middle ground between holism and MI
Methodological Individualism and Agent-Based Models: A Reply to Manzo
No full textIn this chapter, I focus on the stimulating and enriching contribution published by Gianluca Manzo in this handbook under the title “Agent-based models and methodological individualism: are they fundamentally linked?” The purpose is to reply to the constructive criticism that he leveled at an article entitled “On the Connection Between Agent-Based Simulation and Methodological Individualism” that I coauthored with Shu-Heng Chen. Manzo agrees with the main conclusion of our article, which is that there is a clearly identifiable link between these two approaches. However, he disagrees with the line of reasoning that we have developed to support this conclusion. My objective is to show that Manzo’s criticism is based on a misunderstanding of our argumentative strategy that may stem from the fact that we did not clarify some implicit relevant methodological assumptions of our analysis. In this chapter, I shall attempt to elucidate and make explicit these assumptions to demonstrate that the distance between Manzo’s and our line of reasoning is less than it may appear at first sight
Dalla teoria della dispersione della conoscenza alla cibernetica economica: l'auto-organizzazine del mercato secondo F. von Hayek -Working Paper, CMSS-LUISS
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L'espace poppérien du raisonnement historique: trois critiques contre le dualisme méthodologique de Jean-Claude Passeron
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