Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement by Nancy Cartwright

Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement

Nancy Cartwright

280 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction philosophy science
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Ever since David Hume, empiricists have barred powers and capacities from nature. In this book Cartwright argues that capacities are essential in our scientific world, and, contrary to empiricist orthodoxy, that they can meet sufficiently strict d...

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