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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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Téléchargez le livre :  A Philosopher Looks at Science
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A Philosopher Looks at Science

Nancy Cartwright


Cambridge University Press

2022-06-30

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What is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the combination of theory and experiment; that all science is basically reducible to physics; and that science and the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophy of Social Science
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Philosophy of Social Science


Nancy Cartwright , Eleonora Montuschi


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...

Parution : 2014-11-06
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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Philosophy of Social Science


Nancy Cartwright , Eleonora Montuschi


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...

Parution : 2014-11-06
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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24,22
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Evidence-Based Policy


Nancy Cartwright , Jeremy Hardie


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...

Parution : 2012-09-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement
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Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement


Nancy Cartwright


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...

Parution : 1989-08-10
Format(s) : PDF
Éditeur : Clarendon Press
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How the Laws of Physics Lie


Nancy Cartwright


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...

Parution : 1983-06-09
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Éditeur : OUP Oxford
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