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Nancy Cartwright is a Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Logic and  Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Professor of Philosophy  at  the  University  of  California, San Diego. She is currently the President of the American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division) and was the President of the Philosophy of Science Association in 2008.

Her research interests include philosophy and history of science (especially physics and economics),  causal inference and objectivity and evidence, especially on evidence-based policy. Research projects with which she is currently involved include 'Evidence for Use' and 'Contingency and Dissent in Science'  both at the Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, LSE, as well as a project on 'God's Order, Man's Order and the Order of Nature' awarded jointly to the LSE and to UCSD.

Her publications include How the Laws of Physics Lie (1983), Nature's Capacities  and  their  Measurement (1989), Otto Neurath: Philosophy between Science and Politics [co-author] (1995), The  Dappled  World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science (1999),  and  more recently Hunting Causes and Using Them (2007). Scroll down for more details.

Nancy Cartwright is a Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

She was  married to Sir Stuart Hampshire who died in June 2004. Sir Stuart was a philosopher and  reviewer  who  towards  the end of his life worked as Warden of Wadham College, Oxford and  as  Professor at Stanford University. They have two daughters, Emily and Sophie, and a granddaughter, Lucy.

Books by and on Nancy Cartwright:

Nancy Cartwright's Philosophy of Science        

By Stephan Hartmann, Carl Hoefer and Luc Bovens (eds)

Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2008

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Causal Powers: What Are They? Why Do We Need Them What Can Be Done With Them and What Cannot?

Contingency and Dissent in Science, Technical Report 04/07

Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, LSE, 2007

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Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics.

Cambridge University Press 2007

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Click here for a review of this book by Judea Pearl, 2008.  Click here for a reply to this review by Nancy Cartwright, 2009.

Two reviews of this book, by Francis Longworth and Eric Weber, andNancy Cartwright's reply to these are forthcoming in ANALYSIS REVIEWS edited for Oxford University Press by Anthony Ellis.

Idealization XII: Correcting the Model. Idealization and Abstraction in the Sciences.
Edited by Nancy Cartwright and Martin Jones. Poznan Studies in Philosophy of Science and the Humanities Vol 86. 

Rodopi 2005

Measuring Causes: Invariance, Modularity and the Causal Markov Condition.

Measurement in Physics and Economics Discussion Paper Series. Monograph DP MEAS 10/00. Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, LSE, 2000

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The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science.
Cambridge University Press, 1999; Represented as a Fathom Internet Story.

Also translated to Chinese by Shanghai Scientific & Technological Education Publishing House.

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Otto Neurath: Philosophy between Science and Politics, with Jordi Cat, Lola Fleck and         Thomas E Uebel, 
Cambridge University Press, Ideas in Context Series No. 38, 1996.

Click here for a review of this book by George A. Reisch 1997.

Nature' s Capacities and their Measurement. 
Oxford University Press, 1989.

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Click here for a review of this book by Frederick M. Kronz, 1990.

How the Laws of Physics Lie
Oxford University Press, 1983.

Also translated to Chinese by Shanghai Scientific & Technological Education Publishing House.

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Click here for a review of this book by Henry E. Kyburg, 1990.