A reading group in general philosophy of science at the Sydney Centre
for Foundations of Science anticipates meeting weekly for the near
future. Over the next couple weeks, we will be looking at Jim
Woodward's manipulationist theory of causal explanation in his book
Making Things Happen. We will focus this time on Chapter 2, "Causation
and Manipulation." This chapter lays out an account of causation which
is developed into an account of causal explanation in later chapters
we anticipate reading. Various brief motivating arguments are
developed in the short introductory Chapter 1, and they may be worth a
skim, too.
We will meet the first time at 4PM on Thursday April 30 at the Centre
for Foundations of Science, N293 in the Main Quad building at Sydney
Uni.
Email me at christopher.eliot @ [domain name is Hofstra. edu] if you
need a copy of Chapters 1 and 2. An electronic version of the text is
available on the Sydney Uni library site, though the interface strikes
me as suitable for searching but designed to frustrate rather than
facilitate actual reading.
Citation: J. Woodward. Making Things Happen: A Theory of Causal
Explanation. Oxford University Press, New York, 2003.
Chris
Christopher Eliot
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Hofstra University,
Hempstead, NY, USA
Visiting Scholar, Sydney Centre for Foundations of Science, Sydney,
NSW, Australia
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