ABSTRACT

In Part 1 of this wide-ranging interview, Tony Lawson discussed his role in, and relationship to, Critical Realism as well as various defences of mathematical modelling in economics. In Part 2 he turns more explicitly to social ontology, his social positioning theory, related concepts and various aspects of particular social phenomena. He discusses how he sees his positioning theory as one of several that address (without being restricted to) agent-structure issues, clarifies his take on on-going debates with Searle, Elder-Vass and others regarding emergence and causation, and provides several examples of applications of social positioning theory – including his latest thinking on the nature of money.

摘要

在这次广泛采访的第 1 部分中，托尼·劳森讨论了他在批判现实主义以及经济学中数学建模的各种辩护中的作用和关系。在第二部分，他更明确地转向社会本体论、他的社会定位理论、相关概念和特定社会现象的各个方面。他讨论了他如何将他的定位理论视为解决（但不限于）代理结构问题的几个理论之一，阐明了他对与 Searle、Elder-Vass 和其他人正在进行的关于出现和因果关系的辩论的看法，并提供了几个例子社会定位理论的应用——包括他对金钱本质的最新思考。