Ylikoski , P K 2015 , ' Comment on Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology ' , Journal of Social Ontology , vol. 1 , no. 2 , pp. 333-340 . https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2015-0005
Title: | Comment on Naturalizing Critical Realist Social Ontology |
Author: | Ylikoski, Petri Kullervo |
Contributor organization: | Department of Social Research (2010-2017) Sociology TINT – Centre for Philosophy of Social Science |
Date: | 2015 |
Language: | eng |
Number of pages: | 8 |
Belongs to series: | Journal of Social Ontology |
ISSN: | 2196-9663 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2015-0005 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/234276 |
Abstract: | This comment discusses Kaidesoja (2013) and raises the issue whether his analysis justifies stronger conclusions than he presents in the book. My com- ments focus on four issues. First, I argue that his naturalistic reconstruction of critical realist transcendental arguments shows that transcendental arguments should be treated as a rare curiosity rather than a general argumentative strategy. Second, I suggest that Kaidesoja’s analysis does not really justify his optimism about the usefulness of causal powers ontology in the social sciences. Third, I raise some doubts about the heuristic value of Mario Bunge’s social ontology that Kaidesoja presents as a replacement for critical realist ontology. Finally, I propose an alternative way to analyze failures of aggregativity that might better serve Kaidesoja’s purposes than the Wimsattian scheme he employs in the book. |
Subject: |
5141 Sociology
611 Philosophy |
Peer reviewed: | No |
Usage restriction: | openAccess |
Self-archived version: | publishedVersion |
Funder: | Unknown funder |
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