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Nancy's Works
How the Laws of Physics Lie (1983)
Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement (1989)
Otto Neurath: Philosophy between Science and Politics (1995)
The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science (1999)
Measuring Causes: Invariance, Modularity and the Causal Markov Condition (2002) UCSanDiego. “Nancy Cartwright, UCSD Prof. of Philosophy, Elected to Membership in American Philosophical Society.” EurekAlert!, 4 May 2004, www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-05/uoc--ncu050404.php. -
Cartwright's career
She was known as a philosopher of science and a professor of philosophy at the University of California at San Diego since 1998 and the University of Durham since 2012. -
Cartwright's major contributions
Nancy's Cartwright's Philosophy of Science is composed of a collection of essays about her contributions to the philosophy of science. "Her contributions are known for her work on models, idealizations, and her widely-cited work on causal laws and effective strategies that has helped frame the contemporary debate on the role of causation in science" (Nancy's Cartwright's Philosophy of Science). -
LSE Philosophy: Nancy Cartwright
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Philosophy of Science in Practice
The authors of this book wrote it to further explain the work of Nancy Cartwright. They wanted to help show and understand science and to build theories in the philosophy of science. This volume examines the philosophical concepts of evidence, laws, causation, and models and their roles in the process of scientific reasoning.