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200 10$aNature's capacities and their measurement$b[electronic resource] /$fNancy Cartwright
210   $aOxford $cClarendon Press ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1989
215   $a1 online resource (279 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographic references and index.
327   $a""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""
327   $a""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""
327   $a""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""
327   $a""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""
330 8 $aThis 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.
606   $aCausality (Physics)
606   $aProbabilities
606   $aPhysics$xPhilosophy
606   $aQuantum theory
606   $aEconometrics
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615  0$aCausality (Physics)
615  0$aProbabilities.
615  0$aPhysics$xPhilosophy.
615  0$aQuantum theory.
615  0$aEconometrics.
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