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1966 – Earns BSc in mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh / Earns Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Chicago
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1971-1973 - Teaches at the University of Maryland
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1973-1991 – Teaches at Stanford University
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1983 – Writes thesis in a collection of essays about fundamental laws of physics not stating truths about the world. This thesis is considered as radical because most philosophers assume there are physical laws which describe natural events. / Cartwright, Nancy. How the Laws of Physics Lie. 1983
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1989 – Writes her first book about replacing causality laws with causality capacities and wondering if laws are needed at all. / Cartwright, Nancy. Nature’s Capacities and their Measurement. 1989
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1991 – Becomes professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method at London School of Economics / 1993 - Becomes Director of the LSE Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science / 1998 - Becomes professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California at San Diego
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1999 – Writes a book with a collection of old and new essays which proposes a combination of laws of nature. / Cartwright, Nancy. The Dappled World. 1999 / 2004 – Writes article about the many theories of causation and hers which is that it is not a single concept. / Cartwright, Nancy. Causation: One Word, Many Things. 2004
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2011 – Creates a video profile of herself: LSE Philosophy: Nancy Cartwright. YouTube, uploaded by Cartwright, Nancy, 2 August 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZtT9J2vfps