A Relational Perspective on Collective Agency
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چکیده
The discussion of collective agency involves the reduction problem concept a collective. Individualism and Cartesian internalism have long restricted orthodox theories made them face tension between an irreducible ontological reductionism. Heterodox as functionalism interpretationism reinterpret accept it realized on level In order to adequately explain social phenomena that relations their essence, in this paper we propose relational, holistic account argue can be integrated into such account.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Philosophies
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2409-9287']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7030063