Nancy Cartwright is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. Her publications include The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science (Cambridge, 1999), Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics (Cambridge, 2007), and Nature, the Artful Modeler (2019).
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Télécharger le livre : Philosophy of Social Science
Nancy Cartwright , Eleonora Montuschi
Philosophy of Social Science
This is a much-needed new introduction to a field that has been transformed in recent years by exciting new subjects, ideas, and methods. It is designed both for students with central interests in philosophy and those planning to concentrate on the social sciences, and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-11-06

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Télécharger le livre : Philosophy of Social Science
Nancy Cartwright , Eleonora Montuschi
Philosophy of Social Science
This is a much-needed new introduction to a field that has been transformed in recent years by exciting new subjects, ideas, and methods. It is designed both for students with central interests in philosophy and those planning to concentrate on the social sciences, and...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-11-06

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Télécharger le livre : Evidence-Based Policy
Nancy Cartwright , Jeremy Hardie
Evidence-Based Policy
Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality--of course, policy should be based on the facts. But are the methods that policy makers...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2012-09-20

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Télécharger le livre : Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement
Nancy Cartwright
Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement
This book argues for the place of capacities within an grounds of meaning, not method. Yet it is questions of method that should concern the modern empiricist: can capacities be measured? Cartwright argues that they are measured if anything is. Stanford University's...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1989-08-10

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Télécharger le livre : How the Laws of Physics Lie
Nancy Cartwright
How the Laws of Physics Lie
In this sequence of philosophical essays about natural science, Nancy Cartwright argues that fundamental explanatory laws, the deepest and most admired successes of modern physics, do not in fact describe the regularities that exist in nature. Yet she is not...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 1983-06-09

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