Making Things Happen¶
Woodward, J. (2003). Making Things Happen: A Theory of Causal Explanation. Oxford University Press.
Cited by¶
3 citations across 3 artifacts.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
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.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
Woodward's abstract supplies only a manipulationist counterfactual theory of causation with the notion of an intervention; it says nothing about Y(1)/Y(0) notation, unobserved outcomes, exchangeability, or natural experiments.
“The resulting theory is a species of counterfactual theory that (I claim) avoids the difficulties and counterexamples that have infected alternative accounts of causation and explanation, from the Deductive-Nomological model onwards.”
- … 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
- 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.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
Woodward's own abstract confirms the book builds an interventionist (manipulationist) theory of causation, but does not itself state the 'hold background conditions fixed' clause the claim rests on.
“This book develops a manipulationist theory of causation and explanation: causal and explanatory relationships are relationships that are potentially exploitable for purposes of manipulation and control.”
- 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.
Verification¶
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