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Nature's capacities and their measurement [[electronic resource] /] / Nancy Cartwright
Nature's capacities and their measurement [[electronic resource] /] / Nancy Cartwright
Autore Cartwright Nancy
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford, : Clarendon Press
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (279 p.)
Disciplina 530/.01
Soggetto topico Causality (Physics)
Probabilities
Physics - Philosophy
Quantum theory
Econometrics
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 0-19-159716-3
1-281-98101-X
9786611981013
0-19-151978-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto ""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""
Record Nr. UNINA-9910456132603321
Cartwright Nancy  
Oxford, : Clarendon Press
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Nature's capacities and their measurement [[electronic resource] /] / Nancy Cartwright
Nature's capacities and their measurement [[electronic resource] /] / Nancy Cartwright
Autore Cartwright Nancy
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford, : Clarendon Press
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (279 p.)
Disciplina 530/.01
Collana Clarendon Paperbacks
Soggetto topico Causality (Physics)
Probabilities
Physics - Philosophy
Quantum theory
Econometrics
ISBN 0-19-159716-3
1-281-98101-X
9786611981013
0-19-151978-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto ""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""
Record Nr. UNINA-9910780304103321
Cartwright Nancy  
Oxford, : Clarendon Press
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui