Note: Not to be confused with Nancy Cartwright (actress)

Nancy Cartwright FBA (born 1943) is a professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics and the University of California at San Diego, and a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. Cartwright is the vice-president elect of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association. She is Fellow of the British Academy and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Her PhD in philosophy was earned at the University of Illinois at Chicago under the direction of Brian Skyrms. She previously taught at Stanford University and was married to the philosopher Stuart Hampshire, now deceased. She was also previously married to Ian Hacking. Her research interests include the history and philosophy of science, especially economics and physics, and causal inference and objectivity in science. She has also written on the history of logical positivism. Her approach to the philosophy of science is associated with the so-called "Stanford school" of John Dupré, Peter Galison, and Ian Hacking.

Bibliography

• How the Laws of Physics Lie, Oxford University Press (August 1983) ISBN 0-19-824704-4. Translated to Chinese.
• Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement, Oxford University Press (October 1989) ISBN 0-198-24477-0
• The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science, Cambridge University Press (September 1999) ISBN 0-521-64411-9
• Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics, Cambridge University Press (June 2007) ISBN 0-521-86081-4. Translated to Chinese.

External links

• http://personal.lse.ac.uk/cartwrig/Default.htm

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