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Nancy Cartwright (June 24, 1944 - present)

  • Casual Laws and Effective Strategies

    Casual Laws and Effective Strategies

    In Nancy Cartwrights work, "Casual Laws and Effective Strategies" (1979), she ponders on the idea that the connections between casual laws and effective strategies. She hypothesizes that "C causes E if and only if C increases the probability of E in every situation which is otherwise casually homogenous with respect to E."
  • How the Laws of Physics Lie

    How the Laws of Physics Lie

    In her text, "How the Laws of Physics Lie", Cartwright challenged traditional views about the nature of scientific laws and ponders on a more subtle understanding for their place in explanation. Check out the link below for more information and to hear Cartwright speak on this topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx9KSlxReAs
  • Nature's Capacities and Their Measurements

    Nature's Capacities and Their Measurements

    A depiction and exploration of philosophical capacities in scientific explanations.
  • A Neglected Theory on Truth

    Here she talks about the implication of letting theories not be held to such constraints when being judged.

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