Measurement

Its Concepts, Theories and Problems

By:

Karel Berka

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Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

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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".

Release date Australia

December 31st, 1982

Author

Karel Berka

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Translated by Augustin Riska

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XII, 250 p.

Pages

250

Series

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

Dimensions

155x235x15

ISBN-13

9789027714169

Product ID

2439437

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