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<p>Evidential Pluralism, a position emerging from the Russo-Williamson Thesis claims that establishing causation in the sciences requires both difference-making and mechanistic evidence. We develop its ontological foundations and formulate an integrative type-level theory of causation. We argue that causality involves two necessary conditions (manipulability and mechanism) that are jointly sufficient for a relation to be causal so that X causes Y if and only if [1] one can, at least in principle, manipulate (the probability of) events of type Y by producing events of type X in a context C and [2] there is a mechanism linking events of type X to events of type Y. We show that such a Manipulationist-Mechanistic theory is not only adequate to exemplary causal claims in biomedicine and economics but also immune to the counterexamples troubling monistic theories.</p>

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Evidential Pluralism, Causal Pluralism, and an Integrative Theory of Causation

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    2026年3月17日

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  • Mariusz Maziarz

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Evidential Pluralism, a position emerging from the Russo-Williamson Thesis claims that establishing causation in the sciences requires both difference-making and mechanistic evidence. We develop its ontological foundations and formulate an integrative type-level theory of causation. We argue that causality involves two necessary conditions (manipulability and mechanism) that are jointly sufficient for a relation to be causal so that X causes Y if and only if [1] one can, at least in principle, manipulate (the probability of) events of type Y by producing events of type X in a context C and [2] there is a mechanism linking events of type X to events of type Y. We show that such a Manipulationist-Mechanistic theory is not only adequate to exemplary causal claims in biomedicine and economics but also immune to the counterexamples troubling monistic theories.