id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_7ohadlp2ljda3cwsbtl4wryf6u Michael Baumgartner Interventionist Causal Exclusion and Non‐reductive Physicalism 2009 19 .pdf application/pdf 9413 667 61 This weakened version of interventionism turns out either to be inapplicable to cases of downward causation involving supervening macro properties or to render corresponding causal claims meaningless. the interventionist framework immunizes non-reductive physicalism against exclusion arguments and, thus, paves the way for a non-reductionist theory of macro-tomicro causation and even "provides a means by which to test which causal powers notion of causation developed in Woodward (2003) nonetheless excludes causal dependencies among supervening macro properties and effects of their supervenience causes Y if there possibly exists an intervention on X with respect to Y , the fixability of the other variables in V is not necessary for a direct causal dependency Even though interventionism is compatible with certain forms of systematic overdetermination, this section shall show that it nonetheless excludes causal dependencies among supervening macro properties and effects of their supervenience bases. ./cache/work_7ohadlp2ljda3cwsbtl4wryf6u.pdf ./txt/work_7ohadlp2ljda3cwsbtl4wryf6u.txt