A Philosopher Looks at Science
(2022)
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Cartwright, N. (2022). A Philosopher Looks at Science. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009201896
Professor Nancy Cartwright's Outputs (16)
The Tangle of Science: Reliability Beyond Method, Rigour, and Objectivity (2022)
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Cartwright, N., Hardie, J., Montuschi, E., Soleiman, S., & Thresher, A. (2022). The Tangle of Science: Reliability Beyond Method, Rigour, and Objectivity. Oxford University Press
Nature the Artful Modeler: Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World, and How We Can Arrange It Better. The 2017 Carus Lectures (2019)
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Cartwright, N. (2019). Nature the Artful Modeler: Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World, and How We Can Arrange It Better. The 2017 Carus Lectures. Open CourtHow fixed are the happenings in Nature and how are they fixed? These lectures address what our scientific successes at predicting and manipulating the world around us suggest in answer. One--very orthodox--account teaches that the sciences offer gene... Read More about Nature the Artful Modeler: Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World, and How We Can Arrange It Better. The 2017 Carus Lectures.
Improving Child Safety: deliberation, judgement and empirical research (2017)
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Munro, E., Cartwright, N., Hardie, J., & Montuschi, E. (2017). Improving Child Safety: deliberation, judgement and empirical research. Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS)
Rethinking Order: After the Laws of Nature (2016)
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Cartwright, N., & Ward, K. (Eds.). (2016). Rethinking Order: After the Laws of Nature. Bloomsbury Academic
Philosophy of Social Science: A New Introduction (2014)
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Cartwright, N., & Montuschi, E. (Eds.). (2014). Philosophy of Social Science: A New Introduction. Oxford University PressThis is a much-needed new introduction to a field that has been transformed in recent years by exciting new subjects, ideas, and methods. It is designed both for students with central interests in philosophy and those planning to concentrate on the s... Read More about Philosophy of Social Science: A New Introduction.
Evidence: For Policy and Wheresoever Rigor is a Must (2013)
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Cartwright, N. D. (2013). Evidence: For Policy and Wheresoever Rigor is a Must. London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)This collection has been assembled under the auspices of the Templeton project, God's Order, Man's Order and the Order of Nature, which I helped direct. Much of my work on that project was concerned with Man's Order. Specifically, with how better to... Read More about Evidence: For Policy and Wheresoever Rigor is a Must.
Evidence Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing it Better (2012)
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Cartwright, N., & Hardie, J. (2012). Evidence Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing it Better. Oxford University Press
Otto Neurath: Philosophy between Science and Politics (2008)
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Cartwright, N., Cat, J., Fleck, L., & Uebel, T. (2008). Otto Neurath: Philosophy between Science and Politics. Cambridge University Press
Causal powers: what are they? why do we need them? what can be done with them and what cannot? (2007)
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Cartwright, N. (2007). Causal powers: what are they? why do we need them? what can be done with them and what cannot?. London School of Economics and Political Science
Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics. (2007)
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Cartwright, N. (2007). Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511618758Hunting Causes and Using Them argues that causation is not one thing, as commonly assumed, but many. There is a huge variety of causal relations, each with different characterizing features, different methods for discovery and different uses to which... Read More about Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics..
Idealization XII: Correcting the Model. Idealization and Abstraction in the Sciences (2005)
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Correcting the Model. Idealization and Abstraction in the Sciences. Rodopi
Measuring Causes: Invariance, Modularity and the Causal Markov Condition. (2000)
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Cartwright, N. (2000). Measuring Causes: Invariance, Modularity and the Causal Markov Condition. Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, LSE
The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science (1999)
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Cartwright, N. (1999). The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science. Cambridge University Press
Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement (1989)
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Cartwright, N. (1989). Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement. Oxford University Press
How the Laws of Physics Lie (1983)
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Cartwright, N. (1983). How the Laws of Physics Lie. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/0198247044.001.0001Nancy Cartwright argues for a novel conception of the role of fundamental scientific laws in modern natural science. If we attend closely to the manner in which theoretical laws figure in the practice of science, we see that despite their great expla... Read More about How the Laws of Physics Lie.