Towards a Deflationary Truthmakers Account of Social Groups: Towards a Deflationary Truthmakers Account of Social Gr...: T. Hansson Wahlberg.
I outline a deflationary truthmakers account of social groups. Potentially, the approach allows us to say, with traditional ontological individualists, that there are only pluralities of individuals out there, ontologically speaking, but that there are nevertheless colloquial and social-scientific t...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 90; no. 1; pp. 349 - 367 |
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Springer Nature
Jan2025
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| Sumario: | I outline a deflationary truthmakers account of social groups. Potentially, the approach allows us to say, with traditional ontological individualists, that there are only pluralities of individuals out there, ontologically speaking, but that there are nevertheless colloquial and social-scientific truths about social groups. If tenable, this kind of theory has the virtue of being both ontologically parsimonious and compatible with ordinary and social-scientific discourse—a virtue which the stock reductive / ontological dependence accounts of social groups arguably lack. |
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