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37 produkter
Philosophy of Social Science
A New Introduction
Av Nancy Cartwright, Eleonora Montuschi
Häftad, 2014
495 kr
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This is a much-needed new introduction to a field that has been transformed in recent years by exciting new subjects, ideas, and methods. It is designed both for students with central interests in philosophy and those planning to concentrate on the social sciences, and it presupposes no particular …
Evidence-Based Policy
A Practical Guide to Doing It Better
Av Nancy Cartwright, Jeremy Hardie
Häftad, 2012
459 kr
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Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality--of course, policy should be based on the facts. But are the methods that policy makers rely on to gather and analyze …
How the Laws of Physics Lie
Häftad, 1983
950 kr
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In this sequence of philosophical essays about natural science, Nancy Cartwright argues that fundamental explanatory laws, the deepest and most admired successes of modern physics, do not in fact describe the regularities that exist in nature. Yet she is not `anti-realist'. Rather, she draws a …
The Tangle of Science
Reliability Beyond Method, Rigour, and Objectivity
Av Nancy Cartwright, Jeremy Hardie m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
530 kr
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Science is remarkably reliable. It puts people on the moon, performs laser eye surgery, tells us about ancient civilizations and species, and predicts the future of our climate. What underwrites this reliability? This book argues that the standard answers--the scientific method, rigour, and …
Evidence-Based Policy
A Practical Guide to Doing It Better
Av Jeremy Hardie, Nancy Cartwright
E-bok, 2012
333 kr
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Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality--of course, policy should be based on the facts. But are the methods that policy makers rely on to gather and analyze …
Philosophy of Social Science
A New Introduction
Av Eleonora Montuschi, Nancy Cartwright
E-bok, 2014
359 kr
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This is a much-needed new introduction to a field that has been transformed in recent years by exciting new subjects, ideas, and methods. It is designed both for students with central interests in philosophy and those planning to concentrate on the social sciences, and it presupposes no particular …
Philosophy of Social Science
A New Introduction
Av Eleonora Montuschi, Nancy Cartwright
E-bok, 2014
359 kr
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This is a much-needed new introduction to a field that has been transformed in recent years by exciting new subjects, ideas, and methods. It is designed both for students with central interests in philosophy and those planning to concentrate on the social sciences, and it presupposes no particular …
How the Laws of Physics Lie
E-bok, 1983
587 kr
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In this sequence of philosophical essays about natural science, Nancy Cartwright argues that fundamental explanatory laws, the deepest and most admired successes of modern physics, do not in fact describe the regularities that exist in nature. Yet she is not `anti-realist''. Rather, she draws a …
Tangle of Science
Reliability Beyond Method, Rigour, and Objectivity
Av Ann C. Thresher, Matthew Soleiman m. fl.
E-bok, 2022
391 kr
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Science is remarkably reliable. It puts people on the moon, performs laser eye surgery, tells us about ancient civilizations and species, and predicts the future of our climate. What underwrites this reliability? This book argues that the standard answers--the scientific method, rigour, and …
Tangle of Science
Reliability Beyond Method, Rigour, and Objectivity
Av Ann C. Thresher, Matthew Soleiman m. fl.
E-bok, 2022
391 kr
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Science is remarkably reliable. It puts people on the moon, performs laser eye surgery, tells us about ancient civilizations and species, and predicts the future of our climate. What underwrites this reliability? This book argues that the standard answers--the scientific method, rigour, and …
Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement
Häftad, 1994
1023 kr
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This book argues for the place of capacities within an grounds of meaning, not method. Yet it is questions of method that should concern the modern empiricist: can capacities be measured? Cartwright argues that they are measured if anything is. Stanford University's Gravity-Probe-B will measure …
Philosophy of Social Science
A New Introduction
Av MONTUSCHI CARTWRIGHT, Nancy Cartwright m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2169 kr
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This is a much-needed new introduction to a field that has been transformed in recent years by exciting new subjects, ideas, and methods. It is designed both for students with central interests in philosophy and those planning to concentrate on the social sciences, and it presupposes no particular …
Evidence-Based Policy
A Practical Guide to Doing It Better
Av Nancy Cartwright, Jeremy Hardie
Inbunden, 2012
2063 kr
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Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality--of course, policy should be based on the facts. But are the methods that policy makers rely on to gather and analyze …
Evidence-Based Policy
A Practical Guide to Doing It Better
Av Jeremy Hardie, Nancy Cartwright
E-bok, 2012
333 kr
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Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality--of course, policy should be based on the facts. But are the methods that policy makers rely on to gather and analyze …
Otto Neurath
Philosophy between Science and Politics
Av Nancy Cartwright, Jordi Cat m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
813 kr
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An international team of four authors, led by distinguished philosopher of science, Nancy Cartwright, and leading scholar of the Vienna Circle, Thomas E. Uebel, have produced this lucid and elegant study of a much-neglected figure. The book, which depicts Neurath's science in the political, …
Otto Neurath
Philosophy between Science and Politics
Av Nancy Cartwright, Jordi Cat m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1644 kr
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An international team of four authors, led by distinguished philosopher of science, Nancy Cartwright, and leading scholar of the Vienna Circle, Thomas E. Uebel, have produced this lucid and elegant study of a much-neglected figure. The book, which depicts Neurath's science in the political, …
The Dappled World
A Study of the Boundaries of Science
Inbunden, 1999
1742 kr
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It is often supposed that the spectacular successes of our modern mathematical sciences support a lofty vision of a world completely ordered by one single elegant theory. In this book Nancy Cartwright argues to the contrary. When we draw our image of the world from the way modern science works - as …
The Dappled World
A Study of the Boundaries of Science
Häftad, 1999
390 kr
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It is often supposed that the spectacular successes of our modern mathematical sciences support a lofty vision of a world completely ordered by one single elegant theory. In this book Nancy Cartwright argues to the contrary. When we draw our image of the world from the way modern science works - as …
Hunting Causes and Using Them
Approaches in Philosophy and Economics
Häftad, 2007
502 kr
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Hunting Causes and Using Them argues that causation is not one thing, as commonly assumed, but many. There is a huge variety of causal relations, each with different characterizing features, different methods for discovery and different uses to which it can be put. In this collection of new and …
Hunting Causes and Using Them
Approaches in Philosophy and Economics
Inbunden, 2007
1391 kr
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Hunting Causes and Using Them argues that causation is not one thing, as commonly assumed, but many. There is a huge variety of causal relations, each with different characterizing features, different methods for discovery and different uses to which it can be put. In this collection of new and …
Nature, the Artful Modeler
Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World and How We Can Arrange It Better
Häftad, 2019
219 kr
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How fixed are the happenings in Nature and how are they fixed? These lectures address what our scientific successes at predicting and manipulating the world around us suggest in answer.One—very orthodox—account teaches that the sciences offer general truths that we combine with local facts to …
Nature, the Artful Modeler
Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World and How We Can Arrange It Better
E-bok, 2019
331 kr
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How fixed are the happenings in Nature and how are they fixed? These lectures address what our scientific successes at predicting and manipulating the world around us suggest in answer. One—very orthodox—account teaches that the sciences offer general truths that we combine with local facts to …
A Philosopher Looks at Science
Häftad, 2022
227 kr
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What is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the combination of theory and experiment; that all science is basically reducible to physics; and that science and the natural world which it pictures are deterministic. The …
Philosopher Looks at Science
E-bok, 2022
237 kr
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What is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the combination of theory and experiment; that all science is basically reducible to physics; and that science and the natural world which it pictures are deterministic. The …
Philosopher Looks at Science
E-bok, 2022
245 kr
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What is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the combination of theory and experiment; that all science is basically reducible to physics; and that science and the natural world which it pictures are deterministic. The …
Causal Processes and their Warrant
Av Nancy Cartwright, Eileen Munro m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
389 kr
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In this book, Nancy Cartwright, Eileen Munro and John Pemberton introduce a new method for assessing whether plans for how to affect change produced their intended outcome, or whether they are likely to do so in the future. The method offers the prospect of a step-change improvement in the accuracy …
Causal Processes and their Warrant
Av John Pemberton, Eileen Munro m. fl.
E-bok, 2026
408 kr
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Causal Processes and their Warrant
Av John Pemberton, Eileen Munro m. fl.
E-bok, 2026
408 kr
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Causal Processes and their Warrant
Av Nancy Cartwright, Eileen Munro m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1318 kr
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In this book, Nancy Cartwright, Eileen Munro and John Pemberton introduce a new method for assessing whether plans for how to affect change produced their intended outcome, or whether they are likely to do so in the future. The method offers the prospect of a step-change improvement in the accuracy …
Dappled World
A Study of the Boundaries of Science
E-bok, 1999
375 kr
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It is often supposed that the spectacular successes of our modern mathematical sciences support a lofty vision of a world completely ordered by one single elegant theory. In this book Nancy Cartwright argues to the contrary. When we draw our image of the world from the way modern science works - as …
