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International law, we are taught, is the law made by states to govern their relations. Unsurprisingly, international law scholarship has traditionally embraced a corresponding methodological statism. Despite common perceptions, statism remains dominant: at most, elite non-state actors are...
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expounding his cognitive and social theory. The exact meaning of the supposed relationship between Gödel´s theorems, on the one … hand, and the essential proposition of Hayek´s theory of mind, on the other, remains subject to interpretation, however … character of an analogy, or a metaphor. Furthermore the anti-mechanistic interpretation of Hayek´s theory of mind is revealed as …
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The distinction between methodological individualism and rational choice theory is elaborated and a simple point is … metalanguage about social scientific theories, whereas rational choice theory is designed to offer explanations of human action and …
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This paper investigates the relationship between methodological individualism (MI) and Agent-Based Simulation (ABS). We discuss and analyze a thesis defended by philosophers Caterina Marchionni and Petri Ylikoski (2013). The thesis maintains that, since MI is often considered to be a...
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"Methodological individualism" (MI) was first used in English in a 1909 paper by Joseph Schumpeter. MI is often invoked as a fundamental description of the methodology both of neoclassical and Austrian economics, as well as of other approaches. However, the methodologies of those to whom the...
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complementary rather than incompatible. Discussing the complexities of ontogeny and phylogeny in social theory, I show exactly how …
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The meaning of Methodological Individualism has been one of the most diversified concepts and is one of the basic methodological principles of the social sciences. It indicates an orderly, repeatable and self-correcting research procedure whose object of study is individuals and their set of...
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