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Event: Workshop: Individualism, Holism, Explanation, and Emergence

Event date November 02, 2012
Location University of Copenhagen
Host(s) Julie Zahle
Event website/information To participate in the workshop, send an email to jzahle@hum.ku.dk no later than October 22

Venue: Room 27.0.09, University of Copenhagen Amager, Njalsgade 80.

Program:

9:00 – 10:00 Dave Elder-Vass (Loughborough University): “Social entities and the basis of their powers”

10:00 – 11:00 Jeroen Van Bouwel (Ghent University): “Explanatory strategies beyond the individualism/holism debate: The case of emergence”

11:00 – 11:30   Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30   Julie Zahle (University of Copenhagen): “Holism and Emergence: How to convince an individualist”

12:30 – 13:15   Lunch

13:15 – 14:15   Daniel Little (University of Michigan-Dearborn): “Methodological localism and actor-centered sociology”

14:15 – 15:15   Finn Collin (University of Copenhagen): “Actor Network Theory, Methodological Individualism and Reduction”

15:15 – 15:30   Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:30   Rasmus Helles (University of Copenhagen): “tba”

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