Review of Woodward, Making Things Happen*

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The problem of variable choice (2016, background): “…is a tendency among some philosophers of science to suppose that problems of variable choice are particularly or distinctively a problem for approaches to causal inference and reasoning that make use of structural equations and directed graphs (see for example, Paul and Hall 2013; Strevens 2007).”