Measurement - Its Concepts, Theories and Problems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983)

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."

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 72
Release date:	October 2011
First published:	1983
Translators:	Augustin Riska
Authors:	Karel Berka
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	250
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983
ISBN-13:	978-9400978300
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
LSN:	9400978308
Barcode:	9789400978300

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