04488nam 2200781Ia 450 991045613260332120200520144314.00-19-159716-31-281-98101-X97866119810130-19-151978-2(CKB)111087313298388(EBL)3052877(OCoLC)608991101(SSID)ssj0000088469(PQKBManifestationID)12016022(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000088469(PQKBWorkID)10092979(PQKB)10216652(SSID)ssj0000486098(PQKBManifestationID)11313961(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486098(PQKBWorkID)10443160(PQKB)10579072(StDuBDS)EDZ0000075672(MiAaPQ)EBC3052877(Au-PeEL)EBL3052877(CaPaEBR)ebr10274566(CaONFJC)MIL198101(EXLCZ)9911108731329838819881219d1989 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNature's capacities and their measurement[electronic resource] /Nancy CartwrightOxford Clarendon Press ;New York Oxford University Press19891 online resource (279 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-824477-0 0-19-823507-0 Includes bibliographic references and index.""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 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""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.Causality (Physics)ProbabilitiesPhysicsPhilosophyQuantum theoryEconometricsElectronic books.Causality (Physics)Probabilities.PhysicsPhilosophy.Quantum theory.Econometrics.530/.01Cartwright Nancy45600MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456132603321Nature's capacities and their measurement2283602UNINA