Woodward's interventionist causation allows causal contribution to be defined by the magnitude of change produced by a targeted intervention on one variable while holding others fixed.
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(as a philosopher whose framework is being discussed)
James Woodward is a philosopher who developed an important theory about how causation works, focusing on the idea that causes are things we could intervene in or change to affect outcomes.
intervention(Used within manipulability theories of causation)
An action or event I on a variable X that breaks the causal connection between X and its causes while leaving other causal mechanisms intact, or that does not affect Y via a causal route that does not go through X.