Journal of Social Ontology | |
Categories We Do Not Know We Live By | |
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Åsa Burman1  | |
[1] Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University | |
关键词: Conferralism; Class; Opaque kinds of social facts; Ásta; Muhammad Ali Khalidi; Paradigmatic cases; | |
DOI : 10.1515/jso-2020-2006 | |
来源: De Gruyter | |
【 摘 要 】
I argue that a central claim of Ásta’s conferralist framework – that it can account for all social properties of individuals – is false, by drawing attention to (opaque) class. I then discuss an implication of this objection; conferralism does not meet its own conditions of adequacy, such as providing a theory that helps to understand oppression. My diagnosis is that this objection points to a methodological problem: Ásta and other social ontologists have been fed on a “one-sided diet” of types of examples, resulting in a limited view of the paradigmatic social phenomena, thus making conferralism too narrow to fulfill its intended role.
【 授权许可】
CC BY-NC-ND
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