Hoffmann-Kolss, Vera (2014). Interventionism and Higher-level Causation. Int. Stud. Philos. Sci., 28 (1). S. 49 - 65. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 1469-9281
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Several authors have recently claimed that the notorious causal exclusion problem, according to which higher-level causes are threatened with causal pre-emption by lower-level causes, can be avoided if causal relevance is understood in terms of Woodward's interventionist account of causation. They argue that if causal relevance is defined in interventionist terms, there are cases where only higher-level properties, but not the lower-level properties underlying them, qualify as causes of a certain effect. In this article, I show that the line of reasoning supposed to establish this claim does not succeed and that interventionism is not better capable of dealing with higher-level causal claims than other accounts of causation. According to Woodward, higher-level causal claims are nonetheless more adequate than lower-level ones if they describe a realization-independent dependency relationship and, hence, meet the requirement that causes should be proportional to their effects. I argue, however, that combining interventionism with proportionality considerations raises difficulties and that, therefore, Woodward's account does not vindicate higher-level causation.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-443682 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/02698595.2014.915653 | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Int. Stud. Philos. Sci. | ||||||||
| Volume: | 28 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | S. 49 - 65 | ||||||||
| Date: | 2014 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | ||||||||
| Place of Publication: | ABINGDON | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1469-9281 | ||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||
| Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/44368 |
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