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Birth of Philosopher Nancy Cartwright
Born in Pennsylvania 1944, Nancy Cartwright is a Durham University and a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Her focus is on objectivity and evidence, especially evidence-based policy. She is considered to one of World’s Most Influential Living Philosophers.
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Higher Education - 1966~1971
Cartwright received a B.S. in mathematics in 1966 from the University of Pittsburgh, and her Ph.D.1971 in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. In the early 1970s, at the time when the field was dominated by men she excelled in the field and opened the door for women, and made it easier for future generations to follow her steps. -
Prior Teaching Experience
Cartwright has been a professor of philosophy at the University of London’s School of Economics and Political Science, where she also heads the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science. She taught previously at Stanford University (1973-91) and at the University of Maryland (1972-73). She has exceptional professional experience and she has influenced the understandings of many philosophers today who studied under her. -
How the Laws of Physics Lie
In this book Cartwright argues that the laws in science do not describe nature or reality accurately.She claims that science extracts away reality to get to its laws, and so doing, loses its truthfulness. -
Marriage (m. 1985–2004)
Cartwright married Sir Stuart Hampshire, also a philosopher and a colleague at the time. Hampshire helped change the nature of moral philosophy and philosophy of mind in the 1950s and 1960s. He was known as one of the anti-rationalist Oxford thinkers. -
Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics
In this book she argues that causation is not one thing, but many things. Different characterizing features and different methods for discovery can be put in a huge variety of causal relations. Some of the topics she covers include "methods that are provably valid for inferring causal relations, taking as axioms the three standard causal Bayes nets assumptions: minimality, causal Markov (CMC) and faithfulness."(Cartwright. (2010) -
Esteem Indicators
Nancy Cartwright was awarded the Martin R. Lebowitz Prize for philosophical achievement awarded by the Phi Beta Kappa Society. She was also awarded the Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for her achievement and contribution to philosophy. -
Reference
Cartwright. (2010). Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics. Economics and Philosophy, 26(1), 87–. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267110000088