Autore
Campaner, Raffaella

Titolo
Sulle teorie manipolative della causalità
Periodico
Rivista di filosofia
Anno: 2003 - Volume: 0 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 89 - Pagina finale: 106

Among the different theories of causation, there is a fairly long tradition of so-called "manipulative" approaches, which goes back to R.G. Collingwood and Douglas Gasking. Even though different manipulative accounts have diverse formulations, it is possible to isolate their common core: what makes a given event A a cause relative to a given event B is the fact that by manipulating A, namely by intervening on it and producing some changes at will, we thereby affect B and bring about changes in it. This approach has been successful especially among statisticians, economists and econometricians, and has been recently largely discussed by philosophers such as - for example - Daniel Hausman, James Woodward and Phil Dowe. This survey presents the main versions on such a perspective and their most relevant advantages and drawbacks as emerging from the current debate.



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