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Nancy Cartwright January 24, 1944
In 1983 Nancy Cartwright published her book "how the laws of physics lie". She argues for the idea that the laws of physics do not describe our reality but the accounts of science instead describe the "simulacrum" account of reality. Ultimately, she argues for a role of fundamental scientific laws in this book. Cartwright, Nancy. How the Laws of Physics Lie. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Print.
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Nancy Cartwright June 24, 1944
In 1999 Nancy Cartwright had her book "The Dappled World: A study of the boundaries of Science" published. In this particular reading Nancy describes the universe to be filled with many discontinuities and irregularities. Through her perspective she believes that the fundamental laws that we use to describe our reality aren't regularities know across the cosmos and may differ. Cartwright, Nancy. The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999 -
Nancy Cartwright June 24, 1944
In 2004 Nancy Cartwright wrote an article called "Causation: One word Many things".Causation is the relationship that two temporal events have with one another in which one events brings the other. Nancy Cartwright argues that causality isn't as simple and linear as cause and effect, there are different relationships in all sorts of systems that describe "thick causal concepts" (Cartwright, 2004). (cont.) -
citation for 2004 entry
Cartwright, Nancy. “Causation: One Word, Many Things.” Philosophy of Science, vol. 71, no. 5, 2004, pp. 805–19. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.1086/426771. Accessed 10 Jul. 2022 -
Nancy Cartwright June 24, 1944
In 2019 Nancy Cartwright published a book to present an alternative view to the philosophy of science. She believed that the way in which science was being approached was from a misguided perspective and thus should be approached in the manner in she describes as "the very best representation of Nature".(Cartwright, 2019)
Nancy Cartwright, Nature, the Artful Modeler: Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World and How We Can Arrange It Better.Chicago:Open Court (2019)