Full Idea
The core of agency and interventionist theories of causation is that c counts as the cause of e iff E reliably appears and disappears when you manipulate C.
Gist of Idea
Interventionist causal theory says it gets a reliable result whenever you manipulate it
Source
R.D. Ingthorsson (A Powerful Particulars View of Causation [2021], 2.1)
A Reaction
[C is the type of c; E is the type of e] James Woodward champions this view. Ingthorsson objects that the theory offers no explanation of the appearances and disappearances. You can't manipulate black holes…
Book Reference
'Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time', ed/tr. Callender,Craig [OUP 2013], p.23