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Nancy Cartwright

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  • Birth

    Nancy Cartwright was born January 24, 1944 in Pennsylvania where she went on to earn her BS in mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh.

  • Received her BA degree from University of Pittsburg in Mathematics

  • Received her PhD in Philosophy from University of Illinois

    Dissertation: “Philosophical Analysis of
    the Concept of Mixture in Quantum Mechanics” (Fellowships: Carnegie, Danforth, Woodrow
    Wilson)

  • Published How The Laws of Physics Lie

    How The Laws of Physics Lie, Nancy Cartwright untangles the evidence and asks "science: why trust it?"

  • Married British Philosopher, Sir Stuart Hampshire

    He wrote ‘Morality and Conflict,' 'Innocence and experience,' 'Spinoza and Spinozism' as well as many other philosophical works. His encounters as interrogator with Nazi officers at the end of the war led to his insistence on the reality of evil. He passed away in 2004.

  • Accepted an Old Dominion Fellow, Philosophy, Princeton University

  • Position as Philosophy Professor

    Distinguished Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of California at San Diego

  • Member, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (The German National Academy of Natural Science)

  • Awarded Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Award for Excellence in Research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of California at San Diego

  • Position as Philosophy Professor

    Professor, Department of Philosophy, Durham University, UK

  • Co-Director, Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS), Durham University

    Current areas of focus for CHESS are causal modelling, historical scholarship, evidence-based policy, tools for scientists and the use of science, information synthesis and practical inference, uncertainty and risk in astrobiology, objectivity and social activist research, the role of descriptive/qualitative work in science, mapping tensions in work crossing scientific disciplines and integrating philosophers into scientific work.

  • Tsing Hua Honorary Distinguished Chair Professor, awarded by the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

  • Knowledge for Use [K4U] – 2015-2021 Making the Most of Social Science to Build Better Policies

    This innovative, interdisciplinary and multi-institutional ERC funded research project that weaves together six case studies and two research streams. The case studies and the research streams work collaboratively to develop evidence and theory to help fortify policies.

  • More information

    A current list of all of her positions, reviews, articles, publications, awards and more can be found in her current CV or on her personal webpage