Making Things Happen Woodward James Professor of Philosophy California Institute of Technology
Making Things Happen Woodward James Professor of Philosophy California Institute of Technology In Making Things Happen, James Woodward develops a new and ambitious comprehensive theory of causation…
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Making Things Happen Woodward James Professor of Philosophy California Institute of Technology
In Making Things Happen, James Woodward develops a new and ambitious comprehensive theory of causation and explanation that draws on literature from a variety of disciplines and which applies to a wide variety of claims in science and everyday life. This account has its roots in the commonsense idea that causes are means for bringing about effects; but it also draws on a long tradition of work in experimental design, econometrics, and statistics.Woodward shows how these ideas may be generalized to other areas of science from the social scientific and biomedical contexts for which they were originally designed. His theory is a manipulationist account, proposing that causal and explanatory relationships are relationships that are potentially exploitable for purposes of manipulation and control.
He also provides philosophical foundations for the manipulationist