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Measurement: Its Concepts, Theories and Problems

Measurement: Its Concepts, Theories and Problems

Riska, Augustin
Berka, Karel

Paperback

Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Book 72

PhilosophyHistory & Philosophy of SciencePhysics

ISBN10: 9400978308
ISBN13: 9789400978300
Publisher: Springer
Published: Oct 12 2011
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
For many years, Karel Berka has worked at some of the central problems of the theory of the sciences. At once a logician, a mathematician, a careful student of the physical sciences and the social sciences, and a sharp but sympathetic critic of the major philosophies of science in this century, Berka brings to this treatise on measurement both his technical mastery and his historical sensitivity. We appreciate his careful analysis of his predecessors, notably Helmholtz, Campbell, Holder, Bridgman, Camap, Hempel, and Stevens, and of his contemporaries such as Brian Ellis and also Patrick Suppes and J. L. Zinnes. The issues to be clarified are familiar but still troubling: how to justify the conceptual transition from classification to a metric; how to explore ways to provide a quantitative understanding of a qualitative concept; indeed how to understand, and thereby control, the Galilean enthusiasm to measure what is measurable and to try to render measurable what is not so as yet.

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