PROFESSOR NANCY CARTWRIGHT 

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 Last Updated:  November 2011

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 BOOKS:      

  1. (with Jeremy Hardie) Evidence-based Policy: Doing It Better. A Practical Guide to Predicting if a Policy Will Work For You, in draft, New York: Oxford University Press.

  2. Causal Powers: What Are They? Why Do We Need Them? What Can and Cannot be Done with Them?  2007,  Contingency and Dissent in Science Series, London: Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, LSE.

  3.  Hunting Causes and Using Them: Studies in Philosophy and Economics, 2007, New York: Cambridge University Press.

  4.  Measuring Causes: Invariance, Modularity and the Causal Markov Condition, 2000, Measurement in Physics and Economics Discussion Paper Series Monograph DP MEAS 10/00, London: Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, LSE.

  5.  The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science, 1999, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Represented as a Fathom Internet Story. Also translated to Chinese; published by the Shanghai Scientific & Technological Education Publishing House.

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

  2. Nature's Capacities and their Measurement, 1989, New York: Oxford University Press.

    Reproduced in Oxford Scholarship on Line, 2003.

  1. How the Laws of Physics Lie, 1983, New York: Oxford University Press.

          Reproduced in Oxford Scholarship on Line, 2003.

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

 

EDITED BOOKS: 

  1. Philosophy of Social Science: an Undergraduate Text (working title), 2012, edited with Eleonora Montuschi.  New York: Oxford University Press.

  2. Idealization XII: Correcting the Models. Idealization and Abstraction in the Sciences, 2005, edited with Martin R. Jones, Amsterdam: Rodopi.

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ARTICLES:   

  1. Cartwright, Nancy D., 'Predicting What Will Happen When We Act: What Counts for Warrant? Preventive Medicine (53), September 2011, pp. 221-224.

  2. Cartwright, Nancy D., Contessa, G. and Steed, S. 'Keeping Track of Neurath's Bill: Abstract Concepts, Stock Models and the Unity of Classical Physics', in Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science, Pombo, O., Symons, J. and Torres, J.M. (eds.), Stuttgart : Springer, 2011, pp. 95-108.

  3. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Will This Policy Work for You?', Philosophy of Science Association Presidential Address, forthcoming in Philosophy of Science.

  4. Cartwright, Nancy D. Foreword to Fictions and Models, New Essays, Woods, J. (ed.), Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 2010.

  5. Cartwright, Nancy D. and Pemberton, J. 'Aristotelian Powers: Without Them, What Would Modern Science Do?' in Powers and Capacities in Philosophy: The New Aristotelianism, Greco, J. and Gross, R. (eds.), New York: Routledge, 2011.  In Draft

  6. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Evidence, External Validity and Explanatory Relevance' The Philosophy of Science Matters: the Philosophy of Peter Achinstein, Morgan, G. (ed.), New York: OUP, 2011, pp. 15-28.

  7. Cartwright, Nancy D.'A Philosopher's View of the Long Road from RCT's to Effectiveness', The Lancet (Art of Medicine Section), Vol. 377, 2011, pp. 1400-01.

  8. Cartwright, Nancy D. Description of Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics' plus 'Replies to Longworth and Weber', Analysis 2010 70(2), pp. 307-310.

  9. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Models: Parables v Fables' in Beyond Mimesis and Convention: Representation in Art and Science: Frigg, R. and Hunter, M. (eds.),  New York: Springer, 2010, pp.19-31.

  10. Cartwright, Nancy D and Bradburn, N. 'A Theory of Measurement', The Importance of Common Metrics for Advancing Social Science Theory and Research: Proceedings of the National Research Council Committee on Common Metrics. April 2011, pp. 53-70.

  11. Cartwright, Nancy D. and Bovens, L. 'Measuring the Impact of Philosophy', Science and Technology Parliamentary Committee Papers - Research Funding Cuts, January 2010. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/memo/spendingcuts/uc8302.htm.

  12. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'How To Do Things with Causes’, APA Presidential Address,  APA Proceedings and Addresses, November 2009 83(2).

  13. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'It May Work Somewhere but Will it Work for Us?' The Lewis Burke Frumkes Lecture, New York University, 2009.

  14. Cartwright, Nancy D ‘Predicting “It Will Work for Us”: (Way) Beyond Statistics’, in Causality in the Sciences, Illari, P.M., Russo, F. and Williamson, J. (eds.), New York: OUP, 2010 pp. 750-768.

  15. Cartwright, Nancy D. ‘Measuring Research Impact: Special Problems’, Report for the Research Excellence Framework Consultation, Consortium of Institutes of Advanced Study, November 2009.

  16. Cartwright, Nancy D.  ‘Evidence-Based Policy: Where is our Theory of Evidence?’, Journal of Children’s Services (special edition), December 2009 4(4), pp. 6-14.

  17. Cartwright, Nancy D. with Eileen Munro, ‘The Limitations of RCTs in Predicting Effectiveness’, JECP issue on Philosophy in Medicine and Health Care, March/April 2010, 16(2), pp. 260-66.

  18. Cartwright, Nancy D. ‘What are Randomised Controlled Trials Good For’, Philosophical Studies, 2010, 147(1), pp. 59-70.

  19. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Reply to Steel and Pearl: Hunting Causes and Using Them': Approaches in Philosophy and Economics. Economics and Philosophy, March 2010, 26 (1), pp. 87-94.

  20. Cartwright, Nancy D. and Fennell, D. 'Does Roush Show Evidence Should be Probable?', Synthese, April 2009,175(3), pp. 289-310.

  21. Cartwright, Nancy D. with Jacob Stegenga, ‘A Theory of Evidence for Evidence-Based Policy’, in Evidence, Inference and Enquiry, Dawid, P. Twining, W. and Vasilaki, M. (eds.), New York: OUP. Forthcoming.

  22. Cartwright, Nancy D. with  Sophia Efstathiou, ‘Hunting Causes and Using Them: Is There no Bridge from Here to There?’, in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 25(3), September 2011, pp.223-241. Also as Contingency and Dissent in Science Technical Report 05/09, CPNSS, LSE. Forthcoming

  23. Cartwright, Nancy D. Relativism in the Philosophy of Science', in Relativism: A Contemporary Anthology , Krausz, M. (ed.), New York: Columbia University Press, 2010, pp.86-99.

  24. Cartwright, Nancy D.  'What Is This Thing Called Efficacy?', in Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Philosophical Theory and Scientific Practice, Mantzavinos, C. (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 185-206.

  25. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'God's Order, Man's Order and the Order of Nature', in Science, Reason and Truth. Proceedings of the San Marino 2007 Symposium, Bersanelli, M., Van Inwagen,  P. and Harper, C. (eds.), Notre Dame University Press. Forthcoming

  26. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Natural Laws and the Closure of Physics', in Visions of Discovery. New Light on Physics, Cosmology and Consciousness, Chiao, R. Y., Phillips, W. D., Leggett, A. J., Cohen, M. L. and Harper, Jr. C. (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 612-622.

  27. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'How Can We Know What Made the Ratman Sick? Singular Causes and Population Probabilities', in Philosophy of Religion, Physics, and Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Adolf Grünbaum, Jokić, A. (ed.), New York: Prometheus Books, 2009. Also as Causality: Metaphysics and Methods Technical Report CTR 08-03, CPNSS, LSE -older version, changes made for the Philosophy of Religion, Physics and Psychology.

  28. Cartwright, Nancy D., 'Models: Parables v Fables', Insights, 2008 1(11) pp. 2-10.

  29. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Evidence-Based Policy: What's To Be Done About Relevance', Philosophical Studies, March 2009, 144 (1), pp. 127-136. 

  30. Cartwright, Nancy D 'If No Capacities Then No Credible Worlds. But Can Models Reveal Capacities?',  Erkenntnis, 70(1), pp. 45-48.

  31. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Why be Hanged for Even a Lamb?'', in Images of Empiricism, Monton, B.  (ed.), OUP, 2009, pp. 32-45.

  32. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'In Praise of the Representation Theorem', in Representation, Evidence and Justification: Themes from Suppes. Frauchiger, M. and Essler, W. K. (eds.), Frankfurt, Paris, Ebikon, Lancaster, New Brunswick: Ontos Verlag, 2008, pp. 83-90.

  33. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Replies' in Nancy Cartwright's Philosophy of Science, Hartmann, S., Hoefer, C. and Bovens, L. (eds.) New York: Routledge, 2008.

  34. Cartwright, Nancy D and Chang, H. 'Measurement' , in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, Psillos, S. and Curd, M. (eds.), New York: Routledge, 2008, pp. 367-375.

  35. Suarez, Mauricio and Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Theories: Tools versus Models' in Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 2008, 39 (1), pp. 61-81.

  36. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Causality, Invariance and Policy' in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics,  Kincaid, H. and Ross, D. (eds.), New York: OUP, 2009, pp. 410-421.

  37. Cartwright, Nancy D.  'Economic Models: No Capacities, No Inductions' in Nancy Cartwright's Causal Powers, 2007, pp.70-80.

  38. Cartwright, Nancy D. and Frigg, R. 'String Theory Meets Philosophy' Physics Today, September 2007. pp. 14-15.

  39. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Causal Laws, Policy Predictions and the Need for Genuine Powers' in Dispositions and Causes, Handfield, T. (ed.), Oxford: OUP, 2009, pp. 127-158.

  40. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'What Makes a Capacity a Disposition?' in Dispositions and Causal Powers, Kistler, M. and    Gnassounou, B.  (eds.), Burlington: Ashgate 2007, pp.195-206. Also as Causality: Metaphysics and Methods Technical Report CTR 10-03, CPNSS, LSE.    Also translated as 'En quio une capacite est-elle une disposition?' in Les dispositions en philosophie et en sciences, CNRS Editions, 2006, pp.135-146.  Also in Nancy Cartwright's Causal Powers, 2007.

  41. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Counterfactuals in Economics: A Commentary', Causation and Explanation, O'Rourke et al (eds.) Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007, pp. 191-216.. Also in Nancy Cartwright's Hunting Causes.

  42. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Are RCTs the Gold Standard?' BioSocieties 2007 2(2), pp.11-20. Also as Technical Report 01/07, Contingency and Dissent in Science Series, CPNSS, LSE. Also in Nancy Cartwright's Causal Powers, 2007, pp. 58-69.

  43. Cartwright, Nancy D. with the help of Andrew Goldfinch  and Jeremy Howick 'Evidence-Based Policy: Where is Our Theory of Evidence?'  in Philosophy: Foundations and Applications. Main Lectures and Colloquia Talks of the German Analytic Philosophy Conference GAP. Beckermann, A., Tetens, H. and Walter,  S. (eds.), Paderborn: Mentis-Verlag 2008.  Also as Technical Report 02/07 Contingency and Dissent in Science Series, 2007, CPNSS, LSE.

  44. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Well-Ordered Science: Evidence for Use', Philosophy of Science, 2006, 73 (5),  pp. 981-990.

  45. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Against the 'System'. Is There Value in Inconsistency?' ,  in  Series on Common Goods: Law, Politics and Economics, Vol. 15,  Daston, L. and Engel, C. (eds.), Baden-Baden: Nomos,  2006, pp. 17-38.

  46. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Where is the Theory in our 'Theories' of Causality?' Journal of Philosophy, 2006 CIII(2), pp. 55-66. Also in Nancy Cartwright's Hunting Causes and Using Them, 2007.

  47. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'From Metaphysics to Method: Comments on Manipulability and the Causal Markov Condition' , British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 57, 2006.

  48. Cartwright, Nancy D. with Anna Alexandrova, Sophia Efstathiou, Andrew Hamilton and Ioan Muntean 'Laws', Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy, Smith, M.,  and Jackson, F. (eds.), New York: OUP, 2005,  pp.792-818.

  49. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'No God; No Laws', Dio, la Natura e la Legge. God and the Laws of Nature,  Angelicum-Mondo X, 2005, pp. 183-190.

  50. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'From Causation to Explanation and Back', The Future of Philosophy, Brian Leiter (ed), Oxford Clarendon Press, 2006, pp.230-245. Also as Causality: Metaphysics and Methods, Technical Report CTR 09-03, CPNSS, LSE..

  51. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'The Vanity of Rigour in Economics. Theoretical Models and Galilean Experiments.'  'The 'Experiment' in the History of Economics, 2005, P. Fontaine and R. Leonard (eds), pp. 135-153.  Expanded version of 'The Vanity of Rigour in Economics',  Discussion Paper Series, CPNSS, 1999.  Translated to German as 'Die Vergeblich Strenge der Oekonomie –Theoretische Modelle und  GalileischeExperimente' Gesellschaft Denken. Eine erkenntnistheoretische Standortbestimmung der Sozialwissenschaften, L Bauer and K Hamberger (eds) Springer Verlag, 2002, pp 3 - 18.  Also in Nancy Cartwright's Hunting Causes and Using Them.

  52. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Another Philosopher Looks at Quantum Mechanics', Hilary Putnam, Y. Ben-Menahem (ed.) Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 188-202.      

  53. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'My Understand to Philosophy' [sic] in The Academic Self-Statements of Cotemporary British and American Distinguished Philosophers, The People's Press, Beijing, 2005, pp. 243-272. Publication in Chinese.

  54. Cartwright, Nancy D. and Reiss, J., 'Uncertainty in Econometrics: Evaluating Policy Counterfactuals', Economic Policy Under Uncertainty: The Role of Truth and Accountability in Policy Advice, 2004, P. Mooslechner, H. Schuberth and Martin Schurz (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing  LTD.

  55. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Causation: One Word, Many Things', Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, 2004, 71: 805-819.  Also as Causality: Metaphysics and Methods Technical Report CTR 07-03, CPNSS, LSE.  Also in Nancy Cartwright's Hunting Causes and Using Them.

  56. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Two Theorems on Invariance and Causality', Philosophy of Science, 2003, 70, No. 1  pp. 203-224.   Also in a longer version in Measuring Causes: Invariance, Modularity and the Causal Markov Condition, Measurement in Physics and Economics Discussion Paper Series Monograph DP MEAS 10/00, London: CPNSS, LSE, 2000.  Also in Nancy Cartwright's Hunting Causes and Using Them.

  57. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Against Modularity, the Causal Markov Condition and Any Link Between the Two: Comments on Hausman and Woodward,' British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 53, 2002, pp. 411-453.   Also in a shorter version in Measuring Causes: Invariance, Modularity and the Causal Markov Condition,  Measurement in Physics and Economics Discussion Paper Series Monograph DP MEAS 9/00, London: CPNSS, LSE, 2000.  Also in Nancy Cartwright's Hunting Causes and Using Them.

  58. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Introduction' and 'Reply' in a volume of Philosophical Books dedicated to the Dappled World, 2002, pp 241-244; 271-279. 

  59. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'In Favour of Laws that are Not Ceteris Paribus After All', Erkenntnis, 57, 2002, pp 425-439.  Also in Nancy Cartwright's Causal Powers.

  60. Cartwright, Nancy D., and Psillos, S., Chang, H. 'Theories of Scientific Method: Models for the Physico-Mathematical Sciences', The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 5: Modern Physical and Mathematical Sciences, M.J. Nye (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp 21-35.  

  61. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Reply to P. Anderson's 'Review' of The Dappled World', International Studies in the History and Philosophy of Physics, 2001, pp 495-497.  

  62. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'What is Wrong with Bayes Nets?', The Monist, 2001, pp 242-264.   Also in Measuring Causes: Invariance, Modularity and the Causal Markov Condition, Measurement in Physics and Economics Discussion Paper Series Monograph DP MEAS 9/00, London: CPNSS,  LSE, 2000.  Also in expanded form in Probability Is the Very Guide of Life, H. Kyburg and M. Thalos (eds.), Open Court, Chicago and La Salle, Illinois, 2003, pp. 253-276.

  63. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Modularity: It Can –and Generally Does– Fail',  Stochastic Causality (CSLI Lecture Notes) M. C. Galavotti, P. Suppes. D. Costantini, (eds). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001, pp 65-84.   Also in Measuring Causes: Invariance, Modularity and the Causal Markov Condition, Measurement in Physics  and Economics Discussion Paper Series Monograph DP MEAS 9/00, London: CPNSS, LSE, 2000.

  64. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Quantum Mechanics without the Observables', The Reality of the Unobservable: Observability, Unobservability, and their Impact on the Issue of Scientific Realism, E Agazzi and M Pauri. (eds), Boston Series in the Philosophy of Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, pp 241 -248 

  65. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'An Empiricist Defence of Singular Causes,' Logic, Cause and Action: Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Anscombe, R.Teichmann (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp 47-58.

  66. Cartwright, Nancy D. and Suárez, M. 'Endpiece', Theoria, 15, 2000, pp 123-128. 

  67. Cartwright, ND. 'The Limits of Exact Science, from Economics to Physics', Perspectives on Science, 1999, pp 318-336. Republished with minor changes as 'The Limits of Causal Order, from Economics to Physics', Fact and Fiction in Economics: Models, Realism and Social Construction, U. Maki (ed.),  Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp 137-151.

  68. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'The Methodology of Actuarial Science',  British Actuarial Journal, 1999, pp 177-179. 

  69. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Causal Diversity and the Markov Condition', Statistics and Causation, a special edition of Synthese,  B. Skyrms (ed.), 1999, pp 3-27. 

  70. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Models and the Limits of Theory: Quantum Hamiltonians and the BCS Model of Superconductivity', Models as Mediators, M Morgan and M Morrison (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 241-281. 

  71. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Against the Completability of Science', The Proper Ambition of Science, J. Wolff and M. W. F. Stone (eds.), Routledge, 2000, pp. 209-222.    Also in Fisica Cuantica y Realidad. Quantum Physics and Reality, C. Mataix and A. Rivadulla (eds.), Madrid: Facultad de Filosofia Universidad Complutense, 2002.

  72. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Comments and Replies', in a volume dedicated to the work of Nancy Cartwright,  Proceedings of the Münster Colloquium, M. Paul (ed.), LIT Press, 1999, pp, 88-109.  

  73. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Capacities' in The Handbook of Economic Methodology, ed J. B. Davis, D. W. Hands and U. Mäki. Edward Elgar Publishing, 1999, pp 45-48.  

  74. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Causality, Independence and Determinism.' In Causal Models and Intelligent Data Analysis, A.. Gammerman (ed), Springer Verlag, 1998, pp. 51-63.

  75. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'How Theories Relate: Takeovers or Partnerships?' In Philosophia Naturalis, 1998, pp. 23-24.

  76. Cartwright, Nancy D. Entries on 'Causation' (pp. 244-251) and Otto Neurath (pp. 813-816). In The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, Routledge, ed. P. Kegan Paul, E. Craig. London and New York, 1998.

  77. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Comment on 'Harold Hotelling and the Neoclassical Dream', P. Mirowski and W. Hands.' In Economics and Methodology, ed. R. Backhouse, U. Mäki, A. Salanti and D. Hausman. International Economic Association Series, Macmillan and St Martin's Press, 1997, pp 417-421.

  78. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Why Physics?' In The Large, the Small and the Human Mind, ed. R Penrose and M Longair. Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp 161-168.

  79. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Models: The Blueprints for Laws.' Philosophy of Science, 64, 1997 (pp 292-303). 

  80. Cartwright, Nancy D. and Del Seta, M. 'The Myth of Universalism: Theories of Science and Theories of Justice', Discussion Paper Series, Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, 1997 (pp1-17).

  81. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Where Do Laws of Nature Come From?' Dialectica, 51, 1997 (pp 65-78).   Translated as 'D'ou viennent les lois de la nature?' In La Regularite. Habitude, disposition et savoir-faire dans l'explication de l'action, ed. C. Chauvire and A. Ogien. Paris: EHESS, 2002 (pp. 77- 93)

  82. Cartwright, Nancy D., Uebel, T. 'Philosophy in the Earthly Plane.' In Encyclopaedia and Utopia: The Life and Work of Otto Neurath, Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook, 1996, ed. E Nemeth and F Stadler. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997. 

  83. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'What is a Causal Structure?' In Causality in Crisis? Statistical Methods and the Search for Causal Knowledge in the Social Sciences, ed. V.R. McKim and S. P.Turner. University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. 

  84. Cartwright, Nancy D., Cat, J. 'Neurath Against Method.' In Origins of Logical Empiricism, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, XVI, ed. Ronald N Giere and Alan Richardson. 1996 (pp 80-90).

  85. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Fundamentalism vs. the Patchwork of Laws.' In Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 1994.   Reprinted in The Philosophy of Science, ed. David Papineau Oxford University Press, 1996.

  86. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'The Metaphysics of the Disunified World.' In PSA 1994, 2, ed. D Hull, M Forbes and RM Burian. Philosophy of Science Association, 1996. 

  87. Cartwright, Nancy D. and Kitcher, P. 'Science and Ethics: Reclaiming Some Neglected Questions', Perspectives on Science, 1996.

  88.  Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Ceteris Paribus Laws and Socio-Economic Machines.' The Monist, 1995.  Reprinted in The Economic World View, ed. U. Maki. Cambridge University Press.

  89. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'False Idealization: A Philosophical Threat to Scientific Method.' Philosophical Studies, 1995. 

  90.  Cartwright, Nancy D. 'How Laws Relate What Happens: Against a Regularity Account.' In Pragmatik: Handbuch Pragmatischen Denkens Band V, ed. H. Stachowiak. Felix Meiner Verlag, 1995

  91. Cartwright, Nancy D., Cat, J., Chang, H. 'Otto Neurath: Politics and the Unity of Science.' In The Disunity of Science, ed. P. Galison and D. Stump. Stanford University Press, 1995.

  92. Cartwright, Nancy D. Entries on Neurath, Duhem, Feyerabend and Lakatos. In The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. E. Honderich. Oxford University Press, 1995.

  93. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Reply to Eells, Humphrey and Morrison.' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (Symposium on Nancy Cartwright's Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement), LV, 1995.

  94. Cartwright, Nancy D., Shomar, T., Suarez, M. 'The Tool Box of Science: Tools for the Building of Models with a Superconductivity Example' in  Theories and Models in Scientific Processes. Edited by William E. Herfel, Wladyslaw Krajewski, Ilkka Niiniluoto and Ryszard Wojcicki. Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Vol. 44 , Amsterdam-Atlanta, Rodopi, 1995. .

  95. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Quantum Technology: Where to Look for the Quantum Measurement Problem.' Philosophy and Technology, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 38, Cambridge University Press, 1995.

  96. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Causal Structures in Econometrics Models.' In On the Reliability of Economic Models, ed. D Little. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.

  97. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Where in the World is the Quantum Measurement Problem?' In Physik, Philosophie und die Einheit der Wissenschaften, Grundlagender exakten Naturawissenschaften, ed. L.. Kruger and B. Falkenburg. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, 1995.

  98. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Probabilities and Experiments.' Journal of Econometrics, 1995.  Also in Discussion Paper Series, Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, LSE, London DP 3/94 1994.

  99. Cartwright, Nancy D., Hoefer, C. 'Substantivalism and the Hole Argument.' In Philosophical Problems of the Internal and External Worlds: Essays Concerning the Philosophy of Adolf Grünbaum, ed. J. Earman, A. Janis, G. Massey and N. Rescher. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.

  100.  Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Marks and Probabilities: Two Ways to Find Causal Structure.' In Scientific Philosophy: Origins and Developments, Yearbook 1/93, Institute Vienna Circle, ed. F. Stadler. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993.

  101. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'How We Relate Theory to Observation.' In World Changes: Thomas Kuhn and the Nature of Science, ed. P. Horwich. MIT Press, 1993.

  102. Cartwright, Nancy D., Chang, H. 'Causality and Realism in the EPR Experiment.' Erkenntnis, 38, 1993.

  103. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Mill and Menger: Ideal Elements and Stable Tendencies.' Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, 38, 1993.

  104. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Is Natural Science 'Natural' Enough? A Reply to Phillip Allport.' Synthese, 94, 1993.

  105. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'In Defence of 'This Worldly Causality: Comments on van Fraassen's Laws and Symmetry.' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LIII, 1993.

  106. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Aristotelian Natures and the Modern Experimental Method.' In Inference, Explanation and Other Philosophical Frustrations, ed. John Earman. University of California Press, 1992

  107. Cartwright, Nancy D., Cat, J., Chang, H. 'Otto Neurath: Unification as the Way to Socialism.' Einheit der Wissenschaften, Berlin Academy of Sciences, Gruyter, 1991.  Translated into Spanish as Otto Neurath: Unificacion Como la Via Hacia el Socialismo, Cuadermos, 90, 1992.

  108. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Fables and Models.' The Aristotelian Society, Supp vol. LXV, 1991.  Reprinted in The Ontology of Science in the International Research Library of Philosophy, Dartmouth Publishing Company, 1991. 

  109. Cartwright, Nancy D., Jones, M. 'How to Hunt Quantum Causes.' Erkenntnis, 36, 1991.

  110. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Can Wholism Reconcile the Inaccuracy of Theory with the Accuracy of Prediction?' Synthese, 92, 1991. 

  111. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Quantum Causes: The Lessons of the Bell Inequalities', Philosophy of the Natural Sciences: Proceedings of the 13th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Hölderlin-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna, 1990.

  112. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Replicability, Reproducibility and Robustness.' History of Political Economy, 23, 1991.

  113. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'A Case Study in Realism: Why Econometrics is Committed to Capacities.'  PSA 1988, ed. A Fine. Philosophy of Science Association, 1989.

  114. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'The Born-Einstein Debate.' Synthese, 90, 1989.

  115. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Capacities and Abstractions.' In Scientific Explanation, ed. P. Kitcher and W.C. Salmon. University of Minnesota Press, 1988.

  116. Cartwright, Nancy D., Dupre, J. 'Probability and Causality: Why Hume and Indeterminism Don't Mix.' Nous, 22, 1988.

  117. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'How to Tell a Common Cause: Generalisations of the Conjunctive Fork Criterion.' In Probability and Causality, ed. J.H. Fetzer. Reidel, 1988.

  118. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Regular Associations and Singular Causes.' In Causation, Chance and Credence, vol 1, ed. B. Skyrms and W.L. Harper. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988.

  119. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Reply to Ellery Eells.' In Causation, Chance and Credence, vol 1, ed. B. Skyrms and W.L. Harper. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988.

  120. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Ursachen und Mathematische Physik.' In Philosophie, Physik, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, ed. W. Muschik and E.Scheibe. Technische Universität Berlin, 1988. (Translated from Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement).

  121. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Max Born and the Reality of Quantum Probabilities.' In The Probabilistic Revolution, vol II, ed. L. Krüger, G. Gigerenzer and M. Morgan. Bradford Books, 1987.

  122. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Philosophical Problems of Quantum Theory: The Response of American Physicists.' In The Probabilistic Revolution, vol II, ed. L. Krüger, G. Gigerenzer and M. Morgan. Bradford Books, 1987.

  123. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Fitting Facts to Equations.' In Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: Intentions, Categories and Ends, ed. R. Grandy and R. Warner. Oxford University Press, 1986. 

  124. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Two Kinds of Teleological Explanation.' In Human Nature and Natural Knowledge, ed. A. Donagan, A. Perovich Jr and M. Wedin. Reidel, 1986

  125. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Causation and Physics: Causal Processes and Mathematical Derivations.' PSA 1984, ed. P. Asquith. Philosophy of Science Association, 1985.

  126. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'What Makes Physics' Objects Abstract?' with Henry Mendell. In Science and Reality, ed. J Cushing, CF Delaney and GM Gutting. University of Notre Dame Press, 1984.

  127. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'When Explanation Leads to Inference.' Philosophical Topics, 13, 1983.

  128. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'How the Measurement Problem is an Artefact of Mathematics', Space, Time and Causality, R. Swinburne (ed.), Reidel, 1983.

  129. Cartwright, Nancy D. and Nordby, Jon.  'How Approximations Take Us Away From Theory and Towards the Truth'  Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. 64: 273-280, 1983.

  130. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Measuring Position Probabilities'. In Studies in the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, ed. P. Suppes. Philosophy of Science Association, 1980.

  131. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'The Truth Doesn't Explain Much'. In American Philosophy Quarterly, 17, 1980.     

  132. Reprinted in Science Reason & Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, ed. D Rothbart. Harcourt Brace,  1997.

  133. Reprinted in Introductory Readings in the Philosophy of Science (3rd ed), ed. E.D. Klemke, R. Hollinger, D. Wyss Rudge. Prometheus, 1998.

  134. Reprinted in Philosophies of Science: From Foundations to Contemporary Issues, ed. J. McErlean.   Wadsworth, 1999.

  135. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'The Reality of Causes in a World of Instrumental Laws'. In Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association, ed. P. Asquith and R. Giere. Philosophy of Science Association, 1980.   Reprinted in The Philosophy of Science, ed. R. Boyd, P. Gaspar and J. Trout. MIT Press, 1991.

  136. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Do the Laws of Physics State the Facts?' Pacific Philosophy Quarterly, 61, 1980 (pp 64-75).   Reprinted in The Philosophy of Science Reader,  1980, Yuri V. Balashov (ed). Routledge Press.    Reprinted in Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues, 1998, Martin Curd and J. A. Cover (ed). Nortono & Company Inc.  Also in Readings on Laws of Nature, 2004 J. W. Carroll (ed). University of Pittsburgh Press.

  137. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Do Token-Token Identity Theories Show Why We Don't Need Reductionism?' Philosophical Studies, 61, 1979. 

  138. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Causal Laws and Effective Strategies.' Nous, 13, 1979.

  139. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Philosophy of Physics.' Current Research in Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science Association, 1979.

  140. Cartwright, ND. 'The Only Real Probabilities in Quantum Mechanics'. In Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association, vol I, ed. P. Asquith and I. Hacking. Philosophy of Science Association, 1978. 

  141. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Comments on Wesley Salmon's 'Science and Religion.' Philosophical Studies, 60, 1978.

  142. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'The Sum Rule Has Not Been Tested.' Philosophy of Science, 44, 1977.

  143. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'A Non-Negative Wigner-Type Distribution'. Physica, 83A, 1976

  144. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'How Do We Apply Science?' In PSA 1974, ed. R. Cohen et al. Reidel, 1976.

  145. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Superposition and Macroscopic Observation.' Synthese, 75, 1974.117.                   

  146. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Correlations Without Joint Distributions in Quantum Mechanics.' Foundations of Physics, 4, 1974. 

  147. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'Van Fraassen's Modal Model of Quantum Mechanics.' Philosophy of Science, 41, 1974.

  148. Cartwright, Nancy D. 'A Dilemma for the Traditional Interpretation of Quantum Mixtures.' In PSA 1972, ed. R. Cohen and K. Schaffner. Reidel, 1974.

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BOOK REVIEWS:  

  1. 'The History of Econometric Ideas: Historical Perspective on Modern Economics', Mary Morgan, Cambridge University Press,  1990.  In Philosophy of Science, 58, 1991.

  2. 'Laws and Symmetry', Bas C van Fraassen, Oxford University Press, 1989.  In The Times Higher Education Supplement, March 1990.

  3. 'The Shaky Game: Einstein, Reality and the Quantum Theory', Arthur Fine, University of Chicago Press, 1987.  In Isis, 78, 1987.

  4. 'Quantum Theory and Measurement', JA Wheeler and W Zurek (eds.), Princeton University Press, 1983.  In Philosophy of Science, 52, 1985.

  5. 'Investigation of the Physical World', G Toraldo di Francia, Cambridge University Press, 1983.  In British Journal for the Philosophy of  Science, 34, 1983.

  6. 'The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics', M Audi, University of Chicago Press, 1973.  In Philosophical Review, 1975.

  7. 'Paradigms and Paradoxes', R Colodny, Pittsburgh Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. V, 1974.  In Philosophy of Science, 41, 1974.

  8. 'Quantum Theory and Beyond', T Bastin, 1972,  in Philosophy of Science, 39, 1972.

                                                             

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