Beyond Supervenience and Construction

Journal of Social Ontology 1 (1):121-141 (2014)
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If reduction of the social to the physical fail, what options remain for understanding their relationship? Two such options are supervenience and constructivism. Both are vitiated by a similar fault. So the choices are limited: reduction after all, or emergence.

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