Measurement and Meaning

Ferenc Csatári (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

164 Seiten

2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8299-5 (ISBN)

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This book provides a critical survey of measurement theories and a clear exposition of the concerning philosophical questions. The author offers a new, constructive interpretation for measurement in both physics and the social sciences, arguing for a constructivist approach.

Measurement and Meaning takes stock of the most important projects in the conceptual grounding of measurement, from early representational theories through the axiomatic approach to operationalism. Ferenc Csatári thoroughly analyzes the relevant philosophical issues and identifies the controversial points in these accounts. Meanwhile, he pays special attention to the peculiarities of measurement in the social sciences. As long as measurement is conceived as an assignment of numerical structures to represent properties—as traditionally done—one might feel obliged to account for continuum, errors, and truth. Csatári puts these key concepts under scrutiny and arrives at a non-trivial, constructive interpretation for each. On these new conceptual grounds, the active quest for congruence in phenomena will be the key to establishing meaningful measurement procedures.

Ferenc Csatári, PhD, is an independent scholar.

Contents

Introduction

1 Empiricism

2 Rules, Procedures, Reality

3 Scales and Structures

4 On the Hard Road of Practice

5 Construction and Truth

References

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Zusatzinfo	9 b/w illustrations; 1 tables;
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 233 mm
Gewicht	422 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4985-8299-0 / 1498582990
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-8299-5 / 9781498582995
Zustand	Neuware