Harinen, Totte (2014) Mutual Manipulability and Causal Inbetweenness. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Carl Craver's mutual manipulability criterion aims to pick out all and only those components of a mechanism that are constitutively relevant with respect to a given phenomenon. In devising his criterion, Craver has made heavy use of the notion of an ideal intervention, which is a tool for illuminating causal concepts in causal models. The problem is that typical mechanistic models contain non-causal relations in addition to causal ones, and so the question as to the applicability of ideal interventions arises. In this paper, I first show why top-down interventions in mechanistic models are likely to violate the standard conditions for ideal interventions under two familiar metaphysics of mechanistic models: those based on supervenience and realization. Drawing from recent developments in the causal exclusion literature, I then argue for the appropriateness of an extended notion of an ideal intervention. Finally, I show why adopting such an extended notion leads to the surprising consequence that an important subset of mechanistic interlevel relations come out as causal. I call the resulting metaphysical account by the name `causal inbetweenness'.
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Keywords: | mutual manipulability, mechanisms, supervenience, realization, causal inbetweenness | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Neuroscience |
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Depositing User: | Totte Harinen | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 25 Oct 2014 15:37 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2014 15:37 | ||||||
Item ID: | 11083 | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Synthese | ||||||
Publisher: | Springer (Springer Science+Business Media B.V.) | ||||||
Official URL: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-014-0564-5 | ||||||
DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1007/s11229-014-0564-5 | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Neuroscience |
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Date: | 2014 | ||||||
ISSN: | 1573-0964 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11083 |
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