Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 7 April 1994
- ISBN 9780198235071
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages278 pages
- Size 217x139x18 mm
- Weight 416 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures throughout 0
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Short description:
`...an interesting and original contribution to the realist argument' The Times Higher Education Supplement.
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This book argues for the place of capacities within an grounds of meaning, not method. Yet it is questions of method that should concern the modern empiricist: can capacities be measured? Cartwright argues that they are measured if anything is. Stanford University's Gravity-Probe-B will measure capacities in a cryogenic dewar deep in space. More mundanely, we use probabilities to measure capacities, and the assumptions required to ensure that probabilities are a reliable instrument are investigated in the opening chapters of this book, where the early methods of econometrics set a model. The last chapter applies lessons about probabilities and capacities to quantum mechanics and the Bell inequalities. The central thesis throughout is that capacities not only can be admitted by empiricists, but indeed must be - otherwise the empirical methods of modern science will make no sense.
an interesting and original contribution to the realist argument"L.Jonathan Cohen, Times Higher Education Supplment
Table of Contents:
How to get causes from probabilities; No causes in; no causes out; Singular causes first; Capacities; Abstract and concrete; What econometrics can teach quantum physics: causality and the Bell inequality
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