An impossibility result on methodological individualism

被引:1
作者
Duijf, Hein [1 ]
Tamminga, Allard [2 ]
Putte, Frederik Van de [3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Dept Philosophy, De Boelelaan 1105, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
[2] Univ Greifswald, Dept Philosophy, Baderstr 6, D-17489 Greifswald, Germany
[3] Univ Ghent, Dept Philosophy, Blandijnberg 2, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
[4] Erasmus Univ, Erasmus Sch Philosophy, Erasmus Inst Philosophy & Econ, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, NL-3062 PA Rotterdam, Netherlands
基金
欧洲研究理事会; 荷兰研究理事会;
关键词
Methodological individualism; Impossibility result; Collective admissibility; Modal logic; Expressivity; Bisimulation; TEAM;
D O I
10.1007/s11098-021-01642-z
中图分类号
B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号
01 ; 0101 ;
摘要
Methodological individualists often claim that any social phenomenon can ultimately be explained in terms of the actions and interactions of individuals. Any Nagelian version of methodological individualism requires that there be bridge laws that translate social statements into individualistic ones. We show that Nagelian individualism can be put to logical scrutiny by making the relevant social and individualistic languages fully explicit and mathematically precise. In particular, we prove that the social statement that a group of (at least two) agents performs a deontically admissible group action cannot be expressed in a well-established deontic logic of agency that models every combination of actions, omissions, abilities, and obligations of finitely many individual agents.
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页码:4165 / 4185
页数:21
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