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Measurement: Its Concepts, Theories and Problems (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Band 72) - Softcover

Berka, Karel

 
9789400978300: Measurement: Its Concepts, Theories and Problems (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Band 72)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9400978308 ISBN 13: 9789400978300
Verlag: Springer, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Koca, DrSc., is director of the Central European Institute of Technology and Head of the research group Computational Chemistry at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. His field of expertise is mathematical and computer assisted chemistry and biochemistry, computer assisted molecular modeling of biologically interesting chemical species, information technology in chemistry, biochemistry, and environmental chemistry. Last years¿ projects were mainly on conformational search, molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations on peptides, proteins, oligonucleotides, nucleotide sugars, and carbohydrates. Methods for analysis conformational potential energy surfaces and energy landscapes of chemical reactions using molecular mechanics and quantum chemistry techniques. For more information see: http://www.chemi.muni.cz/~jkoca/

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Verlag
Springer
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9400978308
ISBN 13 
9789400978300
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
268
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