Making Things Happen —— A Theory of Causal Explanation

----- 顺其自然- 因果解释理论

ISBN: 9780195189537 出版年：2005 页码：419 Woodward, James Oxford University Press

Woodward's long awaited book is an attempt to construct a comprehensive account of causation explanation that applies to a wide variety of causal and explanatory claims in different areas of science and everyday life. The book engages some of the relevant literature from other disciplines, as Woodward weaves together examples, counterexamples, criticisms, defenses, objections, and replies into a convincing defense of the core of his theory, which is that we can analyze causation by appeal to the notion of manipulation.