{"id":721,"date":"2008-09-15T01:41:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T05:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=721"},"modified":"2008-09-30T10:44:27","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T14:44:27","slug":"critique-of-causal-mechanisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/09\/15\/critique-of-causal-mechanisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Critique of causal mechanisms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now it is clear that those who stress the role of causal mechanisms also go beyond the field of self-interpretations. For example, though Elster stresses the indeterminacy of their triggering and interaction, he uses mechanisms to provide a causal connection between phenomena and events.\u00a0 But he brackets the ontological conditions of possibility of these mechanisms, and underplays their organic and dynamic relation to self-interpretations and their contexts … Elster short-circuits the passage through the subject<\/strong> by conceiving mechanisms as a set of ‘abstract essences’ or free standing ‘tools’ that are not tied to any ontology, and which can be applied to different contexts without modification (159).<\/p>\n

For us by contrast, logics are always linked to a particular field of self-interpretations.\u00a0 Social logics, in particular, provide access to the practices under\u00a0 investigation, enabling us to grasp the point of a practice or institution, as well as the rules and structures that organize them … Social logics require therefore a ‘passage through the self-interpretations of subjects’, and they provide a bridge between description\/characterization and explanation\/critique.<\/span><\/p>\n

In any fully-fledged critical explanation of a phenomenon, political and fantasmatic logics have to be articulated<\/strong> with a range of social logics together with the empirical contexts they inform and within which they function.\u00a0 The entire logic of explanation thus requires the passage through self-interpretations (160).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now it is clear that those who stress the role of causal mechanisms also go beyond the field of self-interpretations. For example, though Elster stresses the indeterminacy of their triggering and interaction, he uses mechanisms to provide a causal connection between phenomena and events.\u00a0 But he brackets the ontological conditions of possibility of these mechanisms, … Continue reading “Critique of causal mechanisms”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-logics","category-ontology","category-retroduction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}