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“Nancy Cartwright’s philosophy of science is, in her view, a form of empiricism. Her concerns were not with the problems of skepticism, induction, or demarcation; she is concerned with how actual science achieves the successes it does, and what sort of metaphysical and epistemological presuppositions are needed to understand that success” (Durham).
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“Her research interests include philosophy and history of science (especially physics and economics). Cartwright has worked extensively in modeling, causal inference, causal powers, and objectivity, evidence, especially for evidence-based policy [EBP] and the philosophy of social technology. She has worked with others on projects in this area on education, child protection and international development (Durham).
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In this book, her “challenge to fundamentalism, including her analysis of the nature and significance of models, began with her book, where she argues that science does not describe the world via the establishment of theoretical laws that correctly represent the features of the world” (Bloomsbury). For example, a scarecrow could be a simulacrum of a human. For a closer look at this book click
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"They met at Stanford. His time working as British Intelligence in WW2, he interrogated Nazi officers and encountered their insights into reality and nature of evil. He was horrified by the ease they were able to induce torture and murder and these experiences shaped his thinking in ethics, philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of mind. He wrote ‘Morality and Conflict, Justice and Conflict, and ‘Two theories of Morality’ as well as ‘Spinoza’ that he was known for”(Stanford).
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She insisted that “Science isn’t merely just a product or description, but more of a process of problem solving and experimentation where a problem has to be solved, testing of these models is a way of solving them (Bloomsbury). She believed in “models being the heuristic function of them being exploratory and a place where we can focus our questions for future research, they also regulate regardless of function, with respect to scientific models” (Bloomsbury).
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The challenge to what she “calls fundamentalism is not, a challenge or rejection of realism, the view that there is a world independent of our theories or models of understandings, rather a challenge to a particular form of realism, a description of the world” in her later works: ‘Natures capacities and their measurement’, and this book"(Bloomsbury). click here
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Cambridge University Press.
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Book link To watch her discussion on Evident Based Policy click here
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Take a look at the book here
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Each Dewey Lecturer receives a monetary award in addition to the honor of being selected. Beginning with the 2015–2016 lectures, each Dewey Lecturer will receive a prize of $1,000.
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Eighty-four leading social scientists conferred as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences.
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Nancy Cartwright, Nature, the Artful Modeller: She Reads the New Yorker, Trusts in God, and Takes Short Views (Pacific). This award, The Carus Lecturer is selected by the APA committee on lectures, publications, and research (LPR). The LPR chair solicits five nominations from each member of the APA board of officers. Nominees must be members of the APA. The award is monetary and they only choose a Lecturer every three years.
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