Making Things Happen: A Theory of Causal Explanation

by James Woodward

Book Overview

In Making Things Happen, James Woodward develops a new and ambitious comprehensive theory of causation and explanation that draws on literature from a variety of disciplines and which applies to a wide variety of claims in science and everyday life. His theory is a manipulationist account, proposing that causal and explanatory relationships are relationships that are potentially exploitable for purposes of manipulation and control. This account has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195189531
• ISBN13: 9780195189537
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"