Manipulation and the Causal Markov Condition
Philosophy of SciencePublished 1 December 2004Open access
Daniel M. Hausman, James Woodward
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Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between a manipulability conception of causation and the causal Markov condition (CM). We argue that violations of CM also violate widely shared expectations—implicit in the manipulability conception—having to do with the absence of spontaneous correlations. They also violate expectations concerning the connection between independence or dependence relationships in the presence and absence of interventions.
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