scholarly journals Constitutive Relevance in Interlevel Experiments

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 697-725
Author(s):  
Maria Serban ◽  
Sune Holm
Keyword(s):  
Constitutive Relevance

scholarly journals Erratum to: Mechanisms and constitutive relevance

Synthese ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 187 (2) ◽  
pp. 813-813
Author(s):  
Mark B. Couch
Keyword(s):  
Constitutive Relevance

The “Constitutive Relevance of Models” (CRoM) Test: A Tool for Transferring Constructs and Virtues between Psychological and Anthropological Theories of Ritual

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Ryan G. Hornbeck ◽  
Justin L. Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Constitutive Relevance ◽  
Predictive Strength ◽  
Analytical Tools

Abstract This paper introduces a tool designed to mitigate a longstanding challenge to developing social anthropological theories of ritual – how to generate enough comparable case studies for rigorously testing the predictive strength and generalizability of the theory under scrutiny. Our “constitutive relevance of models” (CRoM) test identifies structural continuities between anthropological and psychological theoretical models of ritual phenomena that would justify sharing some analytical tools between models. With this test, anthropologists can in certain cases draw on a psychological theory construct’s superior empirical tractability to more efficiently identify instances of ritual phenomena that are suitable for developing and testing their own anthropological models. To demonstrate, we apply a CRoM test to validate the use of a construct developed under a psychological theory of ritual, Lawson and McCauley’s “ritual form hypothesis,” to search for case studies suitable for assessing the theoretical claims that anthropologist Roy Rappaport made for “highly sacred” rituals.

scholarly journals Constitutive relevance & mutual manipulability revisited

Synthese ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl F. Craver ◽  
Stuart Glennan ◽  
Mark Povich
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Manipulability ◽  
Constitutive Relevance
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