Harinen, T. (2018). Mutual manipulability and causal inbetweenness. Synthese, 195(1), 35–54. Online 2014.
Key takeaways
Not read. From catalogue descriptions and from the work read beside it:
- Catalogue descriptions: typical mechanistic models contain non-causal relations as well as causal ones, so the standard ideal intervention is not appropriate there, and an extended interventionism is argued for.
- Baumgartner and Casini (NOTE-1490), footnote 8: “Harinen (2014), who also points out that MM imposes unsatisfiable requirements on interventions, fails to see that relaxing the requirements in the vein of interventionism∗ deprives interventions on mechanisms of their inferential value.”
Standing in the record
Filed with the debate it belongs to. Whether its “causal inbetweenness” gives intervention data more leverage than Baumgartner and Casini allow is open until it is read.