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ISBN: 9780521644112 - The Dappled World The Dappled World
Nancy Cartwright

ISBN10: 0521644119  ISBN13: 9780521644112
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 23 Sep 1999
In this book Nancy Cartwright argues against a vision of a uniform world completely ordered under a single elegant theory, and proposes instead a patchwork of laws of nature. Combining classic and newly written essays, The Dappled World offers... More

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ISBN: 9780198247043 - How the Laws of Physics Lie How the Laws of Physics Lie
Nancy Cartwright

ISBN10: 0198247044  ISBN13: 9780198247043
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 Jun 1983
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. More

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ISBN: 9780521677981 - Hunting Causes and Using Them Hunting Causes and Using Them
Nancy Cartwright

ISBN10: 052167798X  ISBN13: 9780521677981
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 May 2007
Nancy Cartwright provides a critical survey of philosophical and economic literature on causality. Hunting Causes and Using Them argues that causation is not one thing, as commonly assumed, but many. There is a huge variety of causal relations... More

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ISBN: 9780198235071 - Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement
Nancy Cartwright

ISBN10: 0198235070  ISBN13: 9780198235071
Publisher: Oxford University Press Clarendon Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Apr 1994
Ever since David Hume, empiricists have barred powers and capacities from nature. In this book Cartwright argues that capacities are essential in our scientific world, and, contrary to empiricist orthodoxy, that they can meet sufficiently strict... More

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ISBN: 9780521643368 - The Dappled World The Dappled World
Nancy Cartwright

ISBN10: 0521643368  ISBN13: 9780521643368
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 Sep 1999
This important and innovative collection of essays argues for a patchwork of laws of nature. It is often supposed that the spectacular successes of our modern mathematical sciences support a lofty vision of a world completely ordered by one single... More

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ISBN: 9780521860819 - Hunting Causes and Using Them Hunting Causes and Using Them
Nancy Cartwright

ISBN10: 0521860814  ISBN13: 9780521860819
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 31 May 2007
Hunting Causes And Using Them argues that causation is not one thing, as commonly assumed, but many. There is a huge variety of causal relations, each with different characterizing features, different methods for discovery and different uses to... More

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ISBN: 9780747552741 - My Life as a Ten Year Old Boy My Life as a Ten Year Old Boy
Nancy Cartwright

ISBN10: 0747552746  ISBN13: 9780747552741
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 Jul 2001
Exposes the behind-the-scenes world of "The Simpsons" through the author's own 'rather curious' perspective, and charts its stratospheric rise from a tiny slot on the "Tracey Ullman Show" to Emmy award winning status. Nancy Cartwright exposes the... More

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ISBN: 9780521041119 - Otto Neurath Otto Neurath
Nancy Cartwright, Jordi Cat (Harvard University, Massachusetts), Lola Fleck (London School of Economics and Political Science), Thomas E Uebel

ISBN10: 0521041112  ISBN13: 9780521041119
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Apr 2008
A study of Neurath's theory of science in its economic, political and social contexts. An international team of four authors, led by distinguished philosopher of science, Nancy Cartwright, and leading scholar of the Vienna Circle, Thomas E. More

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ISBN: 9780198247005 - How the Laws of Physics Lie How the Laws of Physics Lie
Nancy Cartwright

ISBN10: 0198247001  ISBN13: 9780198247005
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Jun 1983

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ISBN: 9780198244776 - Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement
Nancy Cartwright

ISBN10: 0198244770  ISBN13: 9780198244776
Publisher: Oxford University Press Clarendon Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Sep 1989
This treatise argues that capacities from nature are essential in our scientific world and, contrary to empiricist orthodoxy, they can meet demands for testability. It concludes by applying lessons about capacities and probabilities to explain the... More