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1st Edition

Nancy Cartwright’s Philosophy of Science

Edited By Luc Bovens, Carl Hoefer, Stephan Hartmann Copyright 2008
420 Pages
by Routledge

418 Pages
by Routledge

418 Pages
by Routledge
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Nancy Cartwright is one of the most distinguished and influential contemporary philosophers of science. Despite the profound impact of her work, there is neither a systematic exposition of Cartwright’s philosophy of science nor a collection of articles that contains in-depth discussions of the major themes of her philosophy. This book is devoted to a critical assessment of Cartwright’s... Read more

Acknowledgments

1 Hoefer: Introducing Nancy Cartwright’s Philosophy of Science

 

Part I. Models and Representations

2 Bailer-Jones, D. Standing up Against Tradition: Models and Theories in Nancy Cartwright’s Philosophy of Science

Replies by Cartwright

    1. Gäehde, U. Nancy Cartwright on Theories, Models and Their Application to Reality: A Case Study

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    2. Morrison, M. Models as Representational Structures

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    3. Teller, P. The Finewright Theory

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      Part II. Causes and Capacities

    4. Giere, R. Models, Metaphysics and Methodology

      5. Replies by Cartwright

    5. Suarez, M. Experimental Realism Defended: How Inference to the Most Likely Cause Might Be Sound

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    6. Psillos, S. Cartwright’s Realist Toil: From Entities to Capacities

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    7. Woodward, J. Invariance, Modularity, And All That: Cartwright on Causation

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    8. Martel, I. The Principle of the Common Cause, The Causal Markov Condition, and Quantum Mechanics: Comments on Cartwright

      9. Replies by Cartwright

    9. Reiss, J. Social Capacities

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    10. Schmidt-Petri, C. Cartwright and Mill on Tendencies and Capacities

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      Part III. Antifundamentalism and the Disunity of Science

    11. Hoefer, C. For Fundamentalism

      12. Replies by Cartwright

    12. Esfeld, M. Cartwright on Wholism

      13. Replies by Cartwright

    13. Falkenburg, B. How Classical and Quantum States Relate: Cartwright’s Views of Quantum Theory

      14. Replies by Cartwright

    14. Nordmann, A. Getting the Causal Story Right: Hermeneutic Moments in Nancy Cartwright’s Philosophy of Science

Replies by Cartwright

 

Notes on Contributors

Index

Biography

Stephan Hartmann is Chair in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University and Director of the Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science.

Luc Bovens is Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics.

Carl Hoefer is an ICREA Research Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona

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