Professor Nancy Cartwright FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1996
- Subjects
- Philosophy
- Sections
- Philosophy
Summary
Nancy Cartwright is a philosopher/methodologist of the natural and social sciences. During the first part of her career at Stanford University she specialised in philosophy of physics; in the second part, in the UK (LSE & Durham) and at UCSD, she specialises in the social and economic sciences and on evidence-based policy. She has worked on scientific realism and use of theory, modelling, causality and evidence. Besides being a fellow of the British Academy, Professor Cartwright is a former MacArthur fellow, a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the Leopoldina (the German Society for Natural Science). She has honorary degrees from Southern Methodist University and St Andrews. Professor Cartwright was married to the late Sir Stuart Hampshire and they have two daughters, Emily and Sophie.
Current post
Professor of Philosophy, Durham University; Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego
Past appointments
Department of Philosophy, Durham University Professor of Philosophy
2012 -
University of San Diego Professor of Philosophy
1997 -
London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Professor of Philosophy, London School of Economics
1991 - 2012
London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Professor of Philosophy
1989 -
Stanford University, California Professor of Philosophy
1973 - 1989
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Sir Richard Sorabji FBA
Philosophy of Mind, Ethics, Philosophy of Physics, Metaphysics, History of Greek and Roman Philosophy (all branches) to 600CE, History of Islamic, Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, Philosophy of Church Fathers to 600CE
Professor Susan James FBA
Early modern philosophy including philosophical psychology, epistemology, social and political philosophy and philosophy of art, focusing especially on Spinoza; philosophy of gender; social and political philosophy
