Are There Really Social Causes?

Pub Date : 2023-01-13 DOI:10.1177/00483931221150485
August Faller
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This article investigates the causal efficacy of social properties, which faces the following puzzle. First, for both intuitive and scientific reasons, it seems social properties have causal import. But, second, social properties are also characteristically extrinsic: to have some social property depends, in typical cases, on what one’s society is like around them. And, third, there is good reason to doubt that extrinsic properties make a genuine causal contribution. After elaborating on these three claims, I defend the following resolution to the puzzle: social causation occurs at the level at which social properties are intrinsic.
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真的有社会原因吗?
本文研究社会属性的因果效应,面临着以下困惑。首先,从直觉和科学的角度来看,社会属性似乎具有因果关系。但是,第二,社会属性也是典型的外在属性:在典型情况下,拥有一些社会属性取决于一个人周围的社会是什么样的。第三,我们有充分的理由怀疑外在属性是否会产生真正的因果关系。在详细阐述了这三个主张之后,我为这个难题的以下解决方案辩护:社会因果关系发生在社会属性是内在的层次上。
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