2017: Carus Lectures (APA 2017 Pacific Division Meeting), Seattle:.
Salmon Memorial Lecture, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh:
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For an appointment, email her or Nicola Craigs at 2018: Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Distinguished Lecture Series at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Headquarters: Prof Nancy Cartwright is mostly on research leave right now. Click here for CV Click here for forthcoming events Office Hours Nancy Cartwright is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Social Sciences. She is also a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina) and the Academy of Europe and a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.Ĭartwright has received two honorary doctorate degrees from the University of St Andrews and the Southern Methodist University and has recently been awarded the Hempel Award for lifetime achievement of Philosophy of Science and the Martin R Lebowitz Prize (alongside Elliott Sober) for philosophical achievement and contribution by the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Idealization and Abstraction in the Sciences (2005). She has also co-edited three collections: Rethinking Order: After the Laws of Nature (2016), Philosophy of Social Science: A New Introduction (2014), and Idealization XII: Correcting the Models.
Professor Cartwright has written a number of books: Nature the Artful Modeler: Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World, and How We Can Arrange It Better (2019), Improving Child Safety: deliberation, judgement and empirical research (2017), Evidence: For Policy and Wheresoever Rigor is a Must (2013), Evidence Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing it Better (2012), Causal Powers: What Are They? Why Do We Need Them? What Can be Done with Them and What Cannot (2007), Measuring Causes: Invariance, Modularity and the Causal Markov Condition (2000), Hunting Causes and Using Them (2007 ), The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science (1999), Otto Neurath: Philosophy between Science and Politics (1995), Nature's Capacities and their Measurement (1989) and How the Laws of Physics Lie (1983). She has worked with others on projects in this area on education, child protection and international development.
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Her current work, for the project ‘Knowledge for Use’, investigates how to use scientific research results for better policies. Cartwright has worked extensively in modelling, causal inference, causal powers, and objectivity, evidence, especially for evidence-based policy and the philosophy of social technology. Her research interests include philosophy and history of science (especially physics and economics). Her current research focusses on objectivity and evidence, especially for evidence-based policy. At Durham she is also co-Director of the Centre for Humanities engaging Science and Society. In the first half of her career at Stanford University she specialised in the philosophy of the natural sciences, especially physics in the second half, at the London School of Economics and now Durham and UCSD, she has specialised in philosophy and methodology of the social sciences with special attention to economics. Nancy Cartwright FBA FAcSS is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
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