Professor John Collier
Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Durban 4041 South Africa
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>>> Andrei Khrennikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/05/06 2:54 PM >>>
Dear John,
>
> On a somewhat different track, but relevant,
> Nancy Cartwright was studying econometrics, and
Do you know how is it possible to find a description of her ideas. I am
guite sure that there will be something wrong in her considerations.
I really doubt it, since Bas van Fraasen felt obliged to respond to it with a
very ad hoc antirealist response. She gave the paper at the 11th Annual
Wittgenstein Congress, and it should be in the proceedings, published in 1987
by Vienna: Holder-Pichler-Tempsky. As, I mentioned, it fits my information
theoretic account of causation perfectly (though the means of transmission are
obscure, unless you adopt the Bohm-Hiley interpretation of QM, or some
variant), which has other attractions.
In any case, the Bell inequalities apply to the econometics case. Nancy's book
on that is among the references on her summer course page (2005) at
http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/nielsen/res/Cartwright/Econometrics%20Summer%20School%20on%20Causality.pdf
You probably want to look also at Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement.
The Amazon page is
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0198235070/103-4607926-5971044?v=glance&n=283155
I am posting this to fis as well, since there may be more general interest.
Cheers,
John
John
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