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Nancy Cartwright
Former mathematician, now professor of philosophy at California and Durham universities. Author of Evidence Based Policy and How The Laws of Physics Lie.
A former mathematician turned philosopher of science, Cartwright’s book How The Laws of Physics Lie has provoked continuing and internationally-cited debate.
A former mathematician turned philosopher of science, Cartwright’s book How The Laws of Physics Lie has provoked continuing and internationally-cited debate.
Nancy Cartwright Videos

The Edge of Reality
Where mathematical metaphors meet reality

Beyond material
Should we embrace the immaterial?

Language and the World
How does language describe the world?

Science, Trust and Truth
When to interrogate the data

The End of All Things
What is reality made of?
Nancy Cartwright Articles
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Explaining the Inexplicable
Is explanation an illusion?

Ultimate Proof
Is evidence an illusion?

Unexplained Events
Does everything have a cause and effect?

The Elegant Universe
Is truth always simple?

The Comedy of Errors
Scientific errors and new adventures

Science, Trust and Truth
When to interrogate the data

Beyond material
Should we embrace the immaterial?
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Simple solutions, dangerous realities

Beyond Kuhn and Feyerabend

Why evidence won't change your convictions

Our touching faith in numbers

The myth of pure science

The irrationality of transhumanists

Towards a new Enlightenment

The problem with the Nobel Prize

What is this thing called pseudoscience?

10 questions ignored by philosophy

The universe is neither clockwork nor alive

Thomas Kuhn and why radicals need tradition

Leibniz and the Miracle Creed Behind Modern Physics

Whether lockdowns were successful remains a mystery

The quantum wave function isn't real

Medicine's bad philosophy threatens your health

Bruno Latour: The Delusions of Modernity

Carl Sagan was wrong: ordinary evidence is enough

Science is a kind of magic

The truths in physics are dependent on falsehoods

Reality has no ultimate building blocks

In bed with the enemy: how to fix science

The laws of nature explain very little

The problem with emergence

The divide between art and science is a mistake

Philosophy needs a Renaissance

11 philosophers you don't know about, but should

Hossenfelder vs Goff: Do electrons exist?

The Values Fix

Europe's Philosophical Rivalry