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Birth
Born in Pennsylvania, USA (Brown et al., 2012). -
Early Education
Prof. Cartwright attained her BS in Mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA in 1966. After that she pursed her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA in 1971 (Leopoldina, 2023 -
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Appointments 1971-1973
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Maryland (Brown et al., 2012). -
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Honors and Memeberships
Prof. Cartwright has held a plethora of awarded memberships and honors in her career. Some of them are: Carl Gustav Hempel Award in 2018, Honorary Doctorate for the University of St. Andrews and the Southern Methodist University, and a member of German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Leopoldina, 2023). -
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Appointments 1973-1991
(1977) Associate
(1983) full Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University (Brown et al., 2012). -
Main publications
1983: How the Laws of Physics Lie, Clarendon Press Oxford and Nature’s Capacities and their Measurement in 1989 (Brown et al., 2012). -
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AppoinTments 1991-Present
Professor, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, and Director of the Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences, London School of Economics (Brown et al., 2012) -
Research Prorities
Dedicated to the questions on objectivity and evidence while researching on political decision-making in the private sector (Leopoldina, 2023) -
Current Employment
Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego.
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References
Brown, S., Collinson, D., & Wilkinson, R. (2012). Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203014479 Curriculum Vitae Professor Dr Nancy Cartwright. German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. https://www.leopoldina.org/fileadmin/redaktion/Mitglieder/CV_Cartwright_Nancy_EN.pdf