Evidentialism and Epistemic Justification (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy) by Kevin McCain

Author:Kevin McCain [McCain, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781134698417
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2014-05-09T05:00:00+00:00

5.2 THE INTERVENTIONIST ACCOUNT OF CAUSATION

Before constructing the interventionist account of the basing relation, it is important to be clear about some of the general features of the interventionist account of causation. The interventionist account of causation is a kind of manipulability theory of causation. In general, manipulability theories of causation claim that when A is a cause of B our manipulating A in certain ways should be a way for us to manipulate, or change, B. More precisely, the primary intuition at work in manipulability theories can be formulated in the following manner:

A causes B if and only if B would change if an appropriate manipulation on A were to be carried out. (Woodward 2008a)10

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