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UNINA9910456132603321 |
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Autore |
Cartwright Nancy |
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Titolo |
Nature's capacities and their measurement [[electronic resource] /] / Nancy Cartwright |
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Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989 |
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0-19-159716-3 |
1-281-98101-X |
9786611981013 |
0-19-151978-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (279 p.) |
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Causality (Physics) |
Probabilities |
Physics - Philosophy |
Quantum theory |
Econometrics |
Electronic books. |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographic references and index. |
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""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1. How to Get Causes from Probabilities""; ""1.1. Introduction""; ""1.2. Determining Causal Structure""; ""1.3. Inus Conditions""; ""1.4. Causes and Probabilities in Linear Models""; ""1.5. Conclusion""; ""Appendix: Back Paths and the Identification of Causes""; ""2. No Causes In, No Causes Out""; ""2.1. Introduction""; ""2.2. Causes at Work in Mathematical Physics""; ""2.3. New Knowledge Requires Old Knowledge""; ""2.4. How Causal Reasoning Succeeds""; ""2.5. Discovering Causal Structure: Can the Hypothetico-Deductive Method Work?""; ""2.6. Conclusion"" |
""3. Singular Causes First""""3.1. Introduction""; ""3.2. Where Singular Causes Enter""; ""3.3. When Causes Are Probabilistic""; ""3.4. More in Favour of Singular Causes""; ""3.5. Singular Causes In, Singular Causes Out""; ""3.6. Conclusion""; ""4. Capacities""; ""4.1. Introduction""; ""4.2. Why Should Increases in Probability Recur?""; ""4.3. Forecasting and the |
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Stability of Capacities""; ""4.4. Beyond Modality""; ""4.5. Mill in Defence of Capacities""; ""4.6. Conclusion""; ""5. Abstract and Concrete""; ""5.1. Introduction""; ""5.2. Idealization and the Need for Capacities"" |
""5.3. Abstractions versus Symbolic Representations""""5.4. What do Abstract Laws Say?""; ""5.5. Concreteness and Causal Structure""; ""5.6. Conclusion""; ""6. What Econometrics Can Teach Quantum Physics: Causality and the Bell Inequality""; ""6.1. Introduction""; ""6.2. Bell's Inequality""; ""6.3. A General Common-Cause Criterion for the EPR Experiment""; ""6.4. Quantum Realism and the Factorizability Condition""; ""6.5. A Common-Cause Model for EPR""; ""6.6. Quantum Mechanics and its Causal Structure""; ""6.7. Factorizability and the Propagation of Causes""; ""6.8. Conclusion"" |
""Appendices""""I. A More General Common-Cause Model for EPR""; ""II. Do Quantum Causes Propagate?""; ""III. Propagation, Effect-Locality, and Completeness: A Comparison""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W"" |
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This book on the philosophy of science argues for an empiricism, opposed to the tradition of David Hume, in which singular rather than general causal claims are primary. |
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UNISALENTO991004312828007536 |
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11 costituzioni : Repubblica romana, Statuto albertino, Stati Uniti d'America, Francia, Germania (Weimar), Estonia, URSS, Ungheria, Jugoslavia, Argentina, Giappone / a cura del Ministero per la Costituente |
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Italia.Ministero per la Costituente |
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