Professor Nancy Cartwright's Outputs (7)

Why Trust Science? Reliability, Particularity and the Tangle of Science (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cartwright, N. (2020, December). Why Trust Science? Reliability, Particularity and the Tangle of Science. Presented at Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Online via Zoom

In evaluating science, philosophers tends to focus on general laws and on their truth. I urge a shift in focus to the reliability of the panoply of outputs science produces and in tandem, from the general to the particular. Here I give five arguments... Read More about Why Trust Science? Reliability, Particularity and the Tangle of Science.

X—Why Trust Science? Reliability, Particularity and the Tangle of Science (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cartwright, N. (2020). X—Why Trust Science? Reliability, Particularity and the Tangle of Science. In Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (237-252). https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoaa015

Using middle-level theory to improve programme and evaluation design. (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Cartwright, N. (2020). Using middle-level theory to improve programme and evaluation design

Using middle-level theory to improve programme and evaluation design. (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Cartwright, N. (2020). Using middle-level theory to improve programme and evaluation design

Making predictions of programme success more reliable (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Cartwright, N., Charlton, L., Juden, M., Munslow, T., & Williams, R. (2020). Making predictions of programme success more reliable

Mechanisms, laws and explanation (2020)
Journal Article
Cartwright, N., Pemberton, J., & Wieten, S. (2020). Mechanisms, laws and explanation. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 10(3), Article 25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-020-00284-y

Mechanisms are now taken widely in philosophy of science to provide one of modern science’s basic explanatory devices. This has raised lively debate concerning the relationship between mechanisms, laws and explanation. This paper focuses on cases whe... Read More about Mechanisms, laws and explanation.

Middle-range theory: Without it what could anyone do? (2020)
Journal Article
Cartwright, N. (2020). Middle-range theory: Without it what could anyone do?. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 35(3), 269-323. https://doi.org/10.1387/theoria.21479

Philosophers of science have had little to say about 'middle-range theory' although much of what is done in science and of what drives its successes falls under that label. These lectures aim to spark an interest in the topic and to lay groundwork fo... Read More about Middle-range theory: Without it what could anyone do?.