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Life of Nancy Cartwright (January 24, 1944 - current)
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How the Laws of Physics Lie Published
On July 7th 1983 Oxford University publishes "How the Laws of Physics Lie" a collection of papers written by Nancy Cartwright. The papers in this book are a collection of topics related to one of Cartwright's biggest contributions to the philosophy of science. She outlines how scientific laws are able to accurately model ideal occurrences, though things that occur in nature are not so ideal. -
Causation: One Word Many Thigns
In December 2014 Cartwright published the paper Causation: One Word Many Things on researched performed at the London School of Economics. Here Cartwright explores the concepts of causality and how they relate to different sets of scientific laws. She expounds upon the work from her 1999 book The Dappled World in which she speaks about how there is essentially no one size fits all laws in science. -
Randomized Controlled Trials
Around September 2016 we see another of Cartwright's significant influences to the philosophy of science. She along with Angus Deaton published a working paper on the efficacy of randomized controlled trials. Among the current generation of scientists RCTs have become a sort of "one size fits all" approach to experimentation. Cartwright and Angus point out in their paper the issues with RCTs in regard to external influence from test subjects.
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Carl Gustav Hempel Award
In October of 2018 Cartwright became the first woman to be awarded the Carl Gustav Hempel Award for her work in Philosophy as well as her work overall as a scholar.
