Historical Kinds in the Social World

IF 0.6 1区哲学 Q4 ETHICS

Philosophy of the Social Sciences Pub Date : 2024-01-23 DOI:10.1177/00483931241228906

Muhammad Ali Khalidi

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Abstract

This paper makes a distinction between ahistorical causal-functional kinds and historical kinds, which include both type- and token-historical kinds, some of which are “copied kinds.” After showing how these distinctions play out in various social sciences, a number of reasons are put forward for the historical individuation of some social kinds. As in the natural sciences, historical individuation in the social sciences can enable us to infer common causes, explain synchronic causal properties, and discover exceptions to causal regularities, among other epistemic aims.

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社会世界中的历史种类

本文区分了非历史的因果功能类型和历史类型，后者包括类型历史类型和标记历史类型，其中一些是 "复制的类型"。在展示了这些区分在不同社会科学中的作用之后，本文提出了一些社会类型历史个体化的理由。与自然科学一样，社会科学中的历史个体化可以使我们推断共同原因、解释同步因果属性、发现因果规律性的例外情况等认识论目的。

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