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Nancy Delaney
Nancy Delaney was born in Pennsylvania in 1944. She attended University of Pittsburg and University of Illinois at Chicago where she earned her Doctor of Philosophy. She originally tailored her work to philosophy of physics but the second half of her career has been devoted to philosophy of social and economical science. -
How the Laws of Physics Lie
“In her book, How the Laws of Physics Lie (1983), Cartwright challenges current trends in philosophical thought, rejecting the assumption that science is concerned with the articulation of natural laws. Her alternative theory designates the scientific project as one in which causal capacities are discovered and quantified.”
She focuses her work based on epistemology, and how philosophy of science is done in part of epistemology. -
University of London’s School of Economics
“Cartwright has been a professor of philosophy at the University of London’s School of Economics and Political Science, where she also heads the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science.” -
Fundamentalism
Cartwright furthers her writing on fundamentalism with her book Dappled World. She discovered that “The conception of science not as searching for laws at all, but as constructing models.”