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Philosophy Colloquium
Friday, November 22,
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Speaker(s): Jiji Zhang, Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jiji Zhang, Speaker
Title: Regularity-theoretic interventionism
Abstract: As an influential approach to theorizing about causation, interventionism is standardly presented as following a counterfactual line of attack. I examine the main reasons for treating interventionism as a broadly counterfactual account and argue that those reasons track features that are not essential to the attractiveness of interventionism. I outline a way to formulate interventionism that is broadly regularity-theoretic and highlight some potential advantages of this perspective.
Title: Regularity-theoretic interventionism
Abstract: As an influential approach to theorizing about causation, interventionism is standardly presented as following a counterfactual line of attack. I examine the main reasons for treating interventionism as a broadly counterfactual account and argue that those reasons track features that are not essential to the attractiveness of interventionism. I outline a way to formulate interventionism that is broadly regularity-theoretic and highlight some potential advantages of this perspective.