In this essay the authors explore the nature of efficient causal explanation in Newton’s Principia and The Opticks. It is argued that: (1) In the dynamical explanations of the Principia, Newton treats the phenomena under study as cases of Hall’s second kind of atypical causation. The underlying concept of causation is therefore a purely interventionist one. (2) In the descriptions of his optica...

In line with epidemiological tradition, studies of cardiovascular health in working populations can be divided into 3 types: analytic, experimental, or interventionist, and descriptive studies. The first type of study aims to determine whether certain factors are associated with a greater risk of CVD. These factors may be specific to working populations, or not. Interventionist studies aim to d...

A distinct strength of interventionist research (IVR) is the ability to establish particularly good access a partner organization and collect exceptionally detailed information, which may not be available researchers who employ other approaches. Yet, challenge IVR exploit this data-gathering opportunity in full, order develop theoretical contribution. We propose ‘theoretical focus driven’ mode ...

This empirical study reports on a cross-linguistic analysis of the overarching issue of L1 lexicalization regarding two (non)-interventionist approaches to vocabulary teaching. Participants were seventy four juniors at the Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch in Tehran. The investigation pursued (i) the impact of the provided (non)-interventionist treatments on both sets of (non)-lexicalize...