@conference {812480,
	title = {Why social emergence? {D}iscussing the use of analytical metaphysics in social theory},
	booktitle = {Worldviews, science and us : studies of analytical metaphysics},
	year = {2010},
	publisher = {World Scientific Publishing Company},
	organization = {World Scientific Publishing Company},
	abstract = {<p>Recently the concept of emergence has been used in social theory to understand and defend social causation and nonreductive individualism (cf., Refs. 1, 2 and 3). In this paper, I want to analyse what the contribution of analytical metaphysics, and, in particular, the concept of emergence is, or might be, to the discussion in social theory. Especially Keith Sawyer{\textquoteright}s use of emergence in his defence of social explanation will be scrutinized. Therefore, it will be important to distinguish ontological from epistemological emergence. Where Sawyer focuses on ontological emergence, I will argue that social explanation might better be defended by putting emphasis on pragmatic aspects of explanation and considering emergence as an epistemological category.</p>},
	isbn = {9789814295819},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789814299053\_0010},
	author = {Van Bouwel, Jeroen},
	editor = {Vanderbeeken, Robrecht and D{\textquoteright}Hooghe, Bart}
}
