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Jan. 24th 1944 - Current
Nancy Cartwright is a professor for Univ. of Durham with honors as a distinguished professor at The Univ. of California at San Diego. She has worked at several colleges including Stanford and London's School of Economics. Obviously an expert at her craft, Cartwright has a toolset including a great knowledge in Philosophy, Methodology and Social Sciences. Her latest work includes evidence based policy including her book "Nature, the Artful Modler" earning her the Carl Gustav Hempel Award. -
How The Laws of Physics Lie
The 80s. An era philosophers set the tone for many views that are major topics today, Nancy Cartwright published her subdiscipline in the philosophy of science called "How the Laws of Physics Lie" in 1983. Her thesis went into great depth about how the laws of physics were to set and stone for such a messy and chaotic world. "Rendered as descriptions of fact, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their fundamental explanatory force" (1983, p. 54). SBN 0-19-824704-4. -
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Positions and Honors
From 2007 to 2010 Cartwright has held honor as either Vice President or President of prestigpus organizations. From 2007-2008 she was Vice President of the Philosophy of Science Association. From 2008-2009 the president of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association. Finally from 2009-2010 President of the Philosophy of Science Association.
Her other honors consist of...
-German Academy of Sciences
-British/American Academy of Arts/Sciences.
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Cartwrights Philosophy
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Here are two youtube videos that i believe are imperative for getting inside the mind of Cartwright. The first is a 4 minute video discussing how concrete answers should be questioned. She challenges you to question how you are to know the right answer to difficult questions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
This is a lecture regarding "single causal claims" with causations in the single case. It is deep but her knowledge is wealth.
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Distinguished Alumni Award
Cartwight receives the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Pittsburg Head Dean Kathleen Blee for using the knowledge learned from her time studying at Pitt to expand the world in the Philosophy of Science field.
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Nature, the Artful Modeler
Her most recent book "Nature, the Artful Modeler" has influenced several young and coming philosophers in a handful of fields. Her work is paving the way for women to become experts in the scientific domain that was once foolishly thought to be a craft better executed by males. She was one of the only ones to mention that she believed that women had a big place in philosophy. In her book she challenges the laws that science abides by and expresses how nature sculpts the world around us.
