Group Minds and Explanatory Simplicity.
This paper explores the claim that explanation of a group's behaviour in term of individual mental states is, in principle, superior to explanation of that behaviour in terms of group mental states. We focus on the supposition that individual-level explanation is superior because it is simpler than...
| Publicado en: | Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement Vol. 76; pp. 3 - 20 |
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Cambridge University Press
May2015
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