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Early Life/Education
Nancy Cartwright was born in Pennsylvania on January 24, 1944. She went to the University of Pittsburg for her Bachelor's degree in mathematics and then went to the University of Illinois in Chicago for her PHD in Philosophy, with a thesis on "Philosophical Analysis of the Concept of Mixture in Quantum Mechanics." -
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Honours and Awarded Memberships
1993 - 98 Fellow, MacArthur Foundation
1987 - 88 Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), Berlin
1984 Fellow, Philosophy of Science Center, University of Pittsburgh
1982 - 83 Fellow, ZiF (Center for Interdisciplinary Research), Bielefeld, Germany
1976 - 77 Fellow, Philosophy of Science Centre, University of Pittsburgh
1971 - 72 Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S. National Science Foundation, Cambridge University -
Publications
Dr. Cartwright had her work became widely known with the publication of How the Laws of Physics Lie, in which Cartwright challenges the idea that the "laws" of science describe the nature of reality. She has published many books along with this one. -
Family
Dr. Cartwright married Sir Stuart Hampshire and had two daughters, Emily Ellsworth Hampshire Cartwright and Sophie Hampshire Cartwright and two granddaughters, Lucy EC Charlton and Tabitha Cartwright Spray. -
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Honours and Awarded Memberships
2005 Senior Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bologna
2004 Fellow, American Philosophical Society
2002 - 2014 Associate Member, Nuffield College, Oxford
2001 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Science
since 1999 Member, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
1996 Fellow, British Academy
1996 Old Dominion Fellow, Philosophy, Princeton University
1995 - 01 Long-term Member of Common Room, Wolfson College, Oxford -
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What Dr. Cartwright is Doing Now
Dr. Cartwright is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). -
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Honours and Awarded Memberships
2012 Honorary Degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, honors causa, awarded by Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX
2011 Member, Doctorate School in Philosophy of the Universita Ca’ Foscari, Venice
2009 Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Award for Excellence in Research in Arts,
Humanities and Social Sciences, University of California at San Diego
2007 Titular Member, Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences (A.I.P.S.)
2007 Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Durham University -
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Honours and Awarded Memberships
2014 Tsing Hua Honorary Chair, University of Taiwan
2013 Honorary Degree, University of St. Andrews -
Citation
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. UC San Diego Professor Recognized as One of World's Most Influential Living Philosopher, 11 May 2017, ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/feature/uc_san_diego_professor_nancy_cartwright_recognized_as_one_of_worlds_most_in. -
Citation
“What Is Meant by ‘Rigour’ in Evidence-Based Educational Policy and What's so Good about It?” Taylor & Francis, www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13803611.2019.1617990. Peoplepill.com. “Nancy Cartwright: American Philosopher (Born: 1944): Biography, Facts, Career, Wiki, Life.” Peoplepill.com, peoplepill.com/people/nancy-cartwright/. -
Citation
https://www.leopoldina.org/fileadmin/redaktion/Mitglieder/CV_Cartwright_Nancy_EN.pdf “Sir Stuart Hampshire.” The Independent, Independent Digital News and Media, 10 Oct. 2011, www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/sir-stuart-hampshire-730588.html.
