浅析干预主义因果理论

• 作 者: 李珍
• 机 构: 中山大学社会科学教育学院,
• 出 处: 科学技术哲学研究
• 发表日期: 2013年02期
• 关键词: 干预主义 反事实条件句 因果关系 因果定义 因果链 希契科克 赖特 自主体 伍德沃德 刘易

干预主义因果理论是近年来在科学哲学中出现的一种新理论,它继承了早期操控因果理论的基本思想,并从两个方面发展了这一理论:第一,结合了基于反事实条件句因果理论的观点;第二,把“干预”作为一个整体性概念单独地、精确地描述,从而克服了操控因果理论的诸多困境。然而,作为一种从实用主义角度出发的因果理论,干预主义因果理论所面临的最大问题便是缺乏一种对因果关系的形而上学说明。

The theory of interventionist causality is a new theory that emerged in the philosophy of science in recent years. It inherits the basic idea of ​​the early manipulation of causal theory and develops it from two aspects. Firstly, it combines the conditions based on counterfactual conditions Causality theory; secondly, the “intervention” as a whole concept separately and accurately described, thus overcoming the many difficulties that control causal theory. However, as a pragmatic theory of causal theory, the biggest problem facing the causal theory of interventionism is the lack of a metaphysical description of the causal relationship.