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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 philosophy of science and contains contributions from Cartwright's champions and critics. Broken into three parts, the book begins by addressing Cartwright's views on the practice of model building in science and the question of how models represent the world before moving on to a detailed discussion of methodologically and metaphysically challenging problems. Finally, the book addresses Cartwright's original attempts to clarify profound questions concerning the metaphysics of science.

    With contributions from leading scholars, such as Ronald N. Giere and Paul Teller, this unique volume will be extremely useful to philosophers of science the world over.

    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

        6. Replies by Cartwright

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

        7. Replies by Cartwright

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

        8. Replies by Cartwright

      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

        11. Replies by Cartwright

        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

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    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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