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Year: 2015

Pages: 3577-3599

Series: Synthese

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James Woodward, "Methodology, ontology, and interventionism", Synthese 192 (11), 2015, pp. 3577-3599.

Abstract

This paper defends an interventionist account of causation by construing this account as a contribution to methodology, rather than as a set of theses about the ontology or metaphysics of causation. It also uses the topic of causation to raise some more general issues about the relation between, on the one hand, methodology, and, on the other hand, ontology and metaphysics, as these are understood in contemporary philosophical discussion, particularly among so-called analytic metaphysicians. It concludes with the suggestion that issues about the ontology of causation often can be fruitfully reconstrued as methodological proposals.

Publication details

Year: 2015

Pages: 3577-3599

Series: Synthese

Full citation:

James Woodward, "Methodology, ontology, and interventionism", Synthese 192 (11), 2015, pp. 3577-3599.