Theorising Social Constraint: The Concept of Supervenience

Boutillier, Shaun Le

doi:10.1017/s0038038501000098

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“…As noted previously (see Le Boutillier, 2001) Hare's intention when he used the notion of supervenience in The Language of Morals was to overcome the naturalistic fallacy that 'good' could be reduced to the characteristics of a thing, event, action, or person. Hare provides plenty of useful demonstrations (both moral and non-moral) of the absurd consequence of using 'good' in this way.…”

Section: Value Superveniencementioning

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Emergence and Analytical Dualism.

Boutillier¹

2003

Philosophica

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Section: Value Superveniencementioning

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Emergence and Analytical Dualism.

Boutillier¹

2003

Philosophica

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“…Developed arguments both support and rebuff the concept. They nonetheless propose a theory of agency based upon supervenience rather than emergence, the main alternative to supervening theory, and they dispute methodological individualism, eliminativism and singularism – distinct but overlapping theories that deny group agency (see Satz & Ferejohn, ; Le Boutillier, ; Sawyer, ; or Demeter, for a critique of supervenience).…”

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Some may beg to differ: individual beliefs and group political claims

Lipscomb

2013

Nursing Philosophy

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While nurses can and do behave as intentional political agents, claims that nurses collectively do (empiric), should (normative) or must (regulatory) act to advance political objectives lack credibility. This paper challenges the coherence and legitimacy of political demands placed upon nurses. It is not suggested that nurses ought not to contribute to political discourse and activity. That would be foolish. However, the idea that nursing can own or exhibit a general political will is discarded. It is suggested that to protect and advance political discussion, to aid explanatory adequacy and clarity, the form in which nursing associates itself with political claims merits critical appraisal. Thus significant numbers of nurses probably reject or disagree with many of the political claims that attach to them--claims often made on their behalf. More specifically, the individual beliefs and goals of nurses can be in conflict with the political pronouncements of nursing scholars and organizations (group agents). It is proposed that nurses need not share substantive normative beliefs/goals and, if this proposal holds, group descriptors such as 'nurses' and 'nursing' cannot meaningfully or easily attach to political claims. Shared value theory is linked to the fallacy of composition and the concept of collective ascription error is introduced to explore the implausibility of using group descriptors such as 'nurses' and 'nursing' to refer to the beliefs/goals of all nurses.

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Theorising Social Constraint: The Concept of Supervenience

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Emergence and Analytical Dualism.

Emergence and Analytical Dualism.

Some may beg to differ: individual beliefs and group political claims

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