Daniel Little — Why emergence?

Little argues that emergence is unnecessary to evoke in order to avoid reductionism, methodological individualism, and microfoundations. There is reason to hold that causal explanation stems from the macro (system) level as well as the meso (institutions, sub-systems) level, in addition to the micro (individual) level.

Understanding Society
Why emergence?
Daniel Little | Chancellor of the University of Michigan-Dearborn, Professor of Philosophy at UM-Dearborn and Professor of Sociology at UM-Ann Arbor