Philip Woodward on Philip Woodward: Radar, clocks and coincidences

Reply to Woodward

I thank Dr. Woodward for his illuminating review of my book Causality, for explicating so clearly the basic contributions of the book, and for giving me the opportunity to further clarify some aspects of the do-calculus, specifically those that pertain to the notion of intervention. Woodward’s concerns regarding the notion of atomic intervention (dubbedPI) fall into twomain categories. First, w...

Comments on Woodward, Making things happen.

Comments on Woodward, Making Things Happen

I welcome the chance to revisit my review of Making Things Happen and the book itself (Woodward 2003; Strevens 2007) in the light of Woodward’s response to the review (henceforth “Woodward’s reply”). In what follows I hope to provide a surer footing for some of the claims made in the original review, to address the new definition of unrelativized causation proposed in Woodward’s reply, and to e...

Comments on Woodward, "Making Things Happen"

Comments on Woodward, "Making Things Happen"