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  1. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
  2. Year: 2012 Volume: 43
  3. Year: 2012 Volume: 43 Issue: 4
  4. Getting rid of interventions.
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Getting rid of interventions.

Content Provider World Health Organization (WHO)-Global Index Medicus
Author Reutlinger, Alexander
Description Country affiliation: Germany Author Affiliation: Reutlinger A ( Department of Philosophy, University of Cologne, Richard-Strauss-Str 2, 50931 Cologne, Germany. Alexander.Reutlinger@uni-koeln.de)
Abstract According to James Woodward's influential interventionist account of causation, X is a cause of Y iff, roughly, there is a possible intervention on X that changes Y. Woodward requires that interventions be merely logically possible. I will argue for two claims against this modal character of interventions: First, merely logically possible interventions are dispensable for the semantic project of providing an account of the meaning of causal statements. If interventions are indeed dispensable, the interventionist theory collapses into (some sort of) a counterfactual theory of causation. Thus, the interventionist theory is not tenable as a theory of causation in its own right. Second, if one maintains that merely logically possible interventions are indispensable, then interventions with this modal character lead to the fatal result that interventionist counterfactuals are evaluated inadequately. Consequently, interventionists offer an inadequate theory of causation. I suggest that if we are concerned with explicating causal concepts and stating the truth-conditions of causal claims we best get rid of Woodwardian interventions.
File Format HTM / HTML
ISSN 13698486
Issue Number 4
Journal Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Volume Number 43
e-ISSN 18792499
Language English
Publisher Elsevier
Publisher Date 2012-12-01
Publisher Place Great Britain (UK)
Access Restriction One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword Discipline Ethics Discipline Social Sciences Discipline History of Medicine Causality Logic Research Design Journal Article Research Support, Non-u.s. Gov't
Content Type Text
Resource Type Article
Subject History Medicine History and Philosophy of Science
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