软控制：进一步论证修正干预理论

IF 1.4 2区哲学 Q1 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Pub Date : 2024-11-17 DOI:10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.09.004

Toby Friend

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摘要

并不是所有我们想要进行或原则上需要进行的测试干预都会导致非路径变量的失败。这对伍德沃德的正统因果干预理论来说是个问题，但对我在上一期本刊中提出的 "修正干预理论"（Friend, 2021）来说却不是。正如我在此所解释的，这是因为只有修正的理论才允许 "软控制"。我将调查三种不同的情况（除了之前考虑的情况），在这些情况中，软控制对于干预主义的合理应用是必要的。这些情况包括：在机制方面，软控制使干预更加实际、物理上更加可能、因果上更有证明力。我还将借此机会删除我最初对修正理论的表述中一些令人困惑的地方。我相信，这样做的结果将为这一理论提供强有力的支持。

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Soft control: Furthering the case for Modified Interventionist Theory

Not all testing interventions that we might want to perform, or need to be performable in principle, fail to cause off-path variables. This is a problem for Woodward’s Orthodox Interventionist Theory of causation, but not the ‘Modified Interventionist Theory’, which I proposed in a previous issue of this journal (Friend, 2021). As I explain here, this is because only the modified theory permits ‘soft control’. I will survey three different kinds of case (beyond the case considered previously) in which soft control is necessary for a reasonable application of interventionism. These include cases where soft control makes intervention more practical, physically possible, and causally probative in the context of mechanisms. I’ll also take the opportunity to remove some of the confusing aspects of my original formulation of the modified theory. The result, I believe, constitutes a strong case for it.

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Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 管理科学-科学史与科学哲学

CiteScore

2.50

自引率

10.00%

发文量

166

审稿时长

6.6 weeks

期刊介绍： Studies in History and Philosophy of Science is devoted to the integrated study of the history, philosophy and sociology of the sciences. The editors encourage contributions both in the long-established areas of the history of the sciences and the philosophy of the sciences and in the topical areas of historiography of the sciences, the sciences in relation to gender, culture and society and the sciences in relation to arts. The Journal is international in scope and content and publishes papers from a wide range of countries and cultural traditions.