Julie Zahle – University of Copenhagen

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Julie Zahle

Julie Zahle

Assistant Professor

Department of Media, Cognition and Communication
Njalsgade 80, Det Humanistiske Fakultet
2300 København S

Office: 14.2.8
Phone: +45 353-28876
Phone (Reception desk): +45 353-28100
E-mail: jzahle@hum.ku.dk



Primary research areas

- Philosophy of science, in particular the philosophy of the social sciences.

- Philosophy of mind, in particular the philosophy of perception.

Current research

I am currently working on a project entitled "Emergence Revisited: Breaking with the Traditional Individualism/Holism Debate." The individualism/holism debate is about the extent to which social scientific explanations should be phrased in terms of individuals, their actions, and the like; or in terms of social phenomena such as social institutions, structures, and systems. In the project, I examine how the notion of emergence is used within current social theories to legitimize the employment of explanations in terms of social phenomena. On the one hand, I am critical of this use of the notion of emergence. On the other hand, I show that these theories contain important insights which may be developed into a satisfactory defense of the use of explanations in terms of social phenomena.