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Presidential Address: Will This Policy Work for You? Predicting Effectiveness Better: How Philosophy Helps (2012)
Journal Article
Cartwright, N. (2012). Presidential Address: Will This Policy Work for You? Predicting Effectiveness Better: How Philosophy Helps. Philosophy of Science, 79(5), 973-989. https://doi.org/10.1086/668041

There is a takeover movement fast gaining influence in development economics, a movement that demands that predictions about development outcomes be based on randomized controlled trials. The problem it takes up—of using evidence of efficacy from goo... Read More about Presidential Address: Will This Policy Work for You? Predicting Effectiveness Better: How Philosophy Helps.

Warranting the use of causal claims: a non-trivial case for interdisciplinarity (2012)
Journal Article
Rol, M., & Cartwright, N. (2012). Warranting the use of causal claims: a non-trivial case for interdisciplinarity. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 27(2), 189-202. https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.4075

To what use can causal claims established in good studies be put? We give examples of studies from which inaccurate inferences were made about target policy situations. The usual diagnosis is that the studies in question lack external validity, which... Read More about Warranting the use of causal claims: a non-trivial case for interdisciplinarity.