Nordisk Individualism

1 Common Information Spaces in Novo Nordisk

Introduction This document contains the descriptions of the initial study of the use of common information spaces in Novo Nordisk. It has two functions. Firstly it allows us to be certain that we do not inadvertently use information that should not be brought outside Novo. Secondly it serves to pass on information from phase one of the project to phase two, where a new researcher joins the grou...

Individualism and Supervenience

Ontological individualism reconsidered

The thesis of methodological individualism in social science is commonly divided into two different claims – explanatory individualism and ontological individualism. Ontological individualism is the thesis that facts about individuals exhaustively determine social facts. Initially taken to be a claim about the identity of groups with sets of individuals or their properties, ontological individu...

Herbert Spencer’s Evolutionary Individualism

The Burden of Individualism