What is a (social) structural explanation?
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Haslanger, Sally
Date Issued
January 2015
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Philosophical Studies
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Springer-Verlag
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Haslanger, Sally. “What Is a (social) Structural Explanation?” Philosophical Studies (January 9, 2015).
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Abstract
A philosophically useful account of social structure must accommodate the fact that social structures play an important role in structural explanation. But what is a structural explanation? How do structural explanations function in the social sciences? This paper offers a way of thinking about structural explanation and sketches an account of social structure that connects social structures with structural explanation.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-014-0434-5
