Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Clarendon Paperbacks
ISBN-10
0198235070
ISBN-13
9780198235071
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 7th, 1994
Print length
278 Pages
Weight
378 grams
Dimensions
21.90 x 14.10 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
EconometricsPhilosophy of sciencePhysics
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`...an interesting and original contribution to the realist argument' The Times Higher Education Supplement.
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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