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)
Book Reference
'Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time', ed/tr. Callender,Craig [OUP 2013], p.23
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…