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The Innovation and Contemporary Value of Interventionism

Mengru Li, Ping Jiang

Abstract


The description of causality from the perspective of manipulation is very consistent with human intuition, but the manipulationism and agentivity theory under the program of reductionism are always faced with the problem of defi nition cycle and anthropocentrism. Interventionism skillfully gets rid of this dilemma by changing the theoretical perspective and drawing on symbolic language. By turning to epistemology, interventionism makes the theoretical system not have to respond to ontology problems, and with the help of the symbolic language of structural equation, it breaks the binding between manipulation and subjectivity. This breakthrough from the theoretical perspective and the theoretical tool dimension has an important reference signifi cance for the construction of the philosophy system with Chinese characteristics.

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Causality; Interventionism; Manipulationism

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v7i24.10010

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