Professor
Nancy Cartwright
London School of Economics and Political Science
Philosopher; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Philosophy
Elected
2001
International Honorary Member
She is among the major philosophers of science in the world. Educated in the United States, she taught at Stanford and now holds a chair at LSE and a part-time appointment at the University of California, San Diego. Author of four books and eighty articles on various topics, particularly on the laws of nature, causality, measurement and objectivity. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a fellow of the British Academy and the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina.
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