These concepts can be explicated in terms of the manipulability account of causation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molecular Genetics] Reference

Instead, the intuitive core of the manipulability theory should be formulated as the claim (CF).    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference

We noted above that interventionist versions of manipulability theories are counterfactual theories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference

Thirdly, there is the manipulability worry mentioned before with respect to agent-centered versions of deontology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deontological Ethics] Reference

(R) are true, it is an important inadequacy in manipulability theories that they seem unable to capture such claims.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference

This (PDF) is an interesting defense of manipulability theory (a.k.a. agency theory) against some common objections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-02-01] Reference

He was, however, either a crackpot who had correctly calculated the manipulability of the congenitally angry, or just lucky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marx In Disguise « Isegoria] Reference

If not, you need to explain why the brain would be the magical exception to the rule: whatever science drags into manipulability.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

That we can clarify the meaning of a causal claim in this way is just what we would expect if a manipulability account of causation is correct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference

Some defenders of manipulability or agency theories of causation have argued that the necessary asymmetry is provided by our perspective as agents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Probabilistic Causation] Reference

Ubuntu, Debian, and Slackware, each with passionate adherents and each optimized for a particular concern -- beauty, ease of use, technical manipulability.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference

While there are true (and even lawful) generalizations about all physical objects, on a manipulability theory these will not describe causal relationships.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference

Some philosophical work on the topic that I've found at least thought-provoking is the generally unpopular but also always misunderstood manipulability theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-02-01] Reference

It is the impulse toward reduction that generates the other feature that critics have found objectionable in standard formulations of the manipulability theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference

The characterization of the notion of an intervention is rightly seen by many writers as central to the development of a plausible version of a manipulability theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference

In the version of a manipulability theory considered under §6 above, causal claims are elucidated in terms of counterfactuals about what would happen under interventions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference

Now, at long last, that tiny corner of the natural world called the human brain is passing into manipulability, and I'm simply suggesting that the process will repeat itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Aesthetics] Reference

Similarly, I wonder whether the greater identifiability and manipulability of artifacts pushes cultural preservation policy in the direction of identifying things rather than practices.    From Wordnik.com.  [AALS Section on Law and Anthropology, part four] Reference

This interventionist framework manages to avoid at least some of these difficulties faced by traditional philosophical versions of the manipulability theory and helps to clarify the content of causal claims.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference

Moreover, to the extent that reliance on some notion like that of an intervention is unavoidable in any satisfactory version of a manipulability theory (as I believe that it is), any such theory must be non-reductionist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference

For example, it is far from obvious how to characterize the notion of an intervention so as to avoid the various counterexamples to standard statements of the manipulability theory such as the theory of Menzies and Price.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference

As we shall see, the different assessments of manipulability accounts of causation within and outside of philosophy derive from the different goals or aspirations that underlie the versions of the theory developed by these two groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference

The way out of these problems is to follow writers like Pearl in reformulating the manipulability approach in terms of the notion of an intervention, where this is characterized in purely causal terms that make no essential reference to human action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference

As we have seen, the notion of an intervention should be understood without reference to human action, and this permits formulation of a manipulability theory that applies to causal claims in situations in which manipulation by human beings is not a practical possibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference

As an illustration consider a simple version of manipulability account along the lines of (CD), according to which a sufficient condition for X to cause (have a causal effect on Y) is that some change in the value of X produced by an intervention is associated with a change in the value of Y.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference

As this example illustrates, part of the heuristic usefulness of a manipulability theory is that encourages us to clarify or disambiguate causal claims by explicitly distinguishing among different possible claims about the outcomes of hypothetical experiments that might be associated with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference

§4 argues that the notion of a free action cannot play the central role it is assigned in traditional versions of manipulability theories. §5 introduces the notion of an intervention which allows for a more adequate statement of the manipulability approach to causation and which has figured prominently in recent discussion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference

"The advantages are with manipulability, parallelism and unpackaged software," Homer said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Techworld Australia News] Reference

This Article contributes to that reassessment by focusing on the problem of manipulability.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Situationist] Reference

But is it possible to become so invested in the manipulability of public image that it erodes the integrity of one's positions?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zelophehad's Daughters] Reference

Related Entries causation: and manipulability | gene | genetics: and genomics | genetics: evolutionary | genetics: genotype/phenotype distinction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molecular Genetics] Reference

And the more instruments you make, the more familiarized you get with the characteristics and manipulability of your personal instruments that you're building for people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Guitars Magazine] Reference

Related Entries causation: and manipulability | disability | feminist (interventions): bioethics | mental illness | social norms | teleology: teleological notions in biology | well-being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concepts of Disease and Health] Reference

Related Entries backwards causation | causation: causal processes | causation: probabilistic | causation and manipulability | conditionals: counterfactual | determinism: causal | events | facts |.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Shasta Daisy] Reference

Related Entries causation: and manipulability | causation: backward | causation: causal processes | causation: counterfactual theories of | causation: in the law | causation: probabilistic | conditionals: counterfactual | decision theory: causal | determinism: causal | events |.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metaphysics of Causation] Reference

Related Entries causation: and manipulability | causation: backward | causation: causal processes | causation: counterfactual theories of | causation: in the law | causation: the metaphysics of | conditionals: counterfactual | decision theory: causal | determinism: causal | events |.    From Wordnik.com.  [Probabilistic Causation] Reference

§§5 and 6 avoids the second classical problem besetting manipulability theories ” that of anthropocentrism and commitment to a privileged status for human action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Causation and Manipulability] Reference

"Digital mapping infuses information with malleability, manipulability, and mobility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

2005), agential manipulability (Collingwood 1940, Gasking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metaphysics of Causation] Reference