Might as well revive this decade old thread, as it is pretty much to my point.
After some searching, it seems there is no way to achieve this; navigating a Finder window in list view, back and forth, with one-finger-swipe on magic mouse, like you can in any browser or app with pages like a pdf.
Better Touch Tool might do it, if they fixed it, but I can't buy and install that just for this one function.
I think this should be a simple option in Finder or Mouse settings.