Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 399 g
Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 399 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-823507-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford
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.
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Fachgebiete
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Ökonometrie
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsmathematik und -statistik
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Experimentalphysik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
- Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Geschichte der Physik
Weitere Infos & Material
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
