Methodological individualism is the theory that social phenomena can only be accurately explained by showing how they result from the intentional states that motivate individual actors. The idea has been used to criticize historicism, structural functionalism as determinants of individual behavior. It is promoted by the Austrian School of economics in interpreting economic developments.
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“Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.”
—Jerry Alan Fodor (b. 1935)