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Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement
Nancy Cartwright
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Paperback. '..an interesting and original contribution to the realist argument' The Times Higher Education Supplement. Series: Clarendon Paperbacks. Num Pages: 278 pages, line figures throughout. BIC Classification: KCH; PDA; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
Series
Clarendon Paperbacks
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198235071
SKU
V9780198235071
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Reviews for Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement
an interesting and original contribution to the realist argument"L.Jonathan Cohen, Times Higher Education Supplment an extremely important and worthwhile book. Cartwright has ventured into exciting but largely unknown philosophical terrain ... all philosophers of causation will profit greatly from her explorations ... she has introduced a number of important new strands to the theory of causation ... [the] wealth of ... Read more