Krickel, B. (2018). Saving the mutual manipulability account of constitutive relevance. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 68, 58–67.
Key takeaways
Not read. From catalogue descriptions and from the work read beside it:
- Baumgartner, Casini and Krickel, footnote 3: “One author (BK) of this paper argues that MM may be saved if the phenomenon is represented by multiple variables standing for different temporal phases of the phenomenon (Krickel, 2018).”
- Catalogue descriptions of the abstract: the mutual manipulability approach looks inconsistent because it is spelled out in interventionist (causal) terms while constitutive relevance is said to be non-causal; the proposal is a causal interpretation of mutual manipulability, as a relation between components and temporal parts of the phenomenon.
Standing in the record
If the move works, it puts a time scale into the line between causation and constitution, which is CLAIM-528’s third part. That claim does not rest on this reading, since the paper was not read.