Making Things Happen

Woodward, J. (2003). Making Things Happen: A Theory of Causal Explanation. Oxford University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2003

DOI

10.1093/0195155270.001.0001

ISBN

0195155270

Link

https://doi.org/10.1093/0195155270.001.0001

Cited from

philosophy

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Causality
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
• Counterfactuals
  • … notation (Y(1), Y(0)) makes counterfactuals explicit and queryable; identifies the fundamental problem (counterfactual outcomes unobserved) and the solution (experimental design ensuring exchangeability); extends to natural experiments and observational designs with stronger assumptions (Woodward 2003

    This sourceVerified support for the interventionist account invoked in the example and in tension T5.

• Minimal Modification Principle
  • This supports causal-effect isolation: By holding background conditions constant and varying only the causal factor of interest, we isolate its effect, as Woodward (2003) develops in his interventionist theory of causation.

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