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Birth of Nancy Cartwright
Nancy Cartwright the professor, philosopher, and scientist, was born on 24 January, 1944. Most people will recognize the name Nancy Cartwright as the voice actress who most notably voices the character Bart Simpson in Matt Groenings' "The Simpsons." While both have contributed to American culture, the philosopher Cartwright has challenged key concepts in science and philosophy in academia. -
How the Laws of Physics Lie
This is Cartwright's first entry into the world of published papers and documents. She made a name for herself using this platform to challenge the accepted paradigms of science and physics. In this book she questions the nature of "laws" of physics (or science in general) saying that the conceptual laws we create only fit the models in which we set up to solve. The laws are bound to be changed in the future, and thus they are lies. -
Nature's Capacities and Their Measurements
In this book, Cartwright makes her main argument, that science must be empirical. She also points out that if something is empirical, then a predefined way of measuring things is established. In order for something to be science, it must be measurable, and use the tools to measure that are agreed upon. -
The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science
Most science is conducted with the assumption that the results of a scientific experiment or program will have nice rounded results that fit smoothly into the defined boundaries of science. Cartwright argues that each thing we discover in the universe is not nice and neat; that each discovery presupposes that the individual item has its own set of rules that was created for it, by it. -
Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics
Causality is a much discussed metaphysical topic among philosophers, and this book attempts to define what is metaphysical science and how we arrive at those definitions. -
Evidence Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing It Better
Cartwright bridges the gap between philosophy and science to the implementation of government policy making. She asserts that policies must be based off more than emotional arguments and pseudo-science, and presents logical empirical evidence to support her claims. -
Philosophy of Social Science: a new introduction
Cartwright takes the culmination of her understanding of philosophy and rewrites the entry level guide to it. She presents concepts in a more meaningful way to modern thinkers and students, covering the epistemology of old topics and why they have evolved to their current state.
