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9780203895467

Nancy Cartwright's Philosophy of Science

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  • ISBN13:

    9780203895467

  • ISBN10:

    0203895460

  • Copyright: 2008-06-09
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Summary

The only book that addresses Cartwright's undoubted influence on the study of the philosophy of science. This critical assessment contains contributions from Cartwright's champions and critics, including leading scholars in the field such as Ronald N. Giere and Paul Teller.

Table of Contents

1. Nancy Cartwright's Philosophy of Science Stephan Hartmann, Carl Hoefer and Iain Martel 1: Laws and Models 2. Standing up Against Tradition: Models and Theories in Nancy Cartwright's Philosophy of Science Daniela Bailer-Jones 3. Models as Representational Structures Margaret Morrison 4. Nancy Cartwright on Theories, Models, and their Application to Reality: A Case Study Ulrich Gahde 5.'Getting the Causal Story Right' Hermeneutic Moments in Nancy Cartwright's Philosophy of Science Alfred Nordmann 2: Causality and Capacities 6. Invariance, Modularity, and All That: Cartwright on Causation James Woodward 7. Comments on Woodward's Article Judea Pearl 8. The Principle of the Common Cause, the Causal Markov Condition, and Quantum Mechanics Iain Martel 9. Experimental Realism Defended: How Inference to the Most Likely Cause Might Be Sound Mauricio Suarez 10. Cartwright's Realist Toil: From Entities to Capacities Stathis Psillos 11.Social Capacities Julian Reiss 12.Cartwright and Mill on Tendencies and Capacities Christoph Schmidt-Petri 3. Anti-Fundamentalism and the Dappled World 13.Models, Metaphysics, and Methodology Ronald Giere 14. For Fundamentalism Carl Hoefer 15. The Finewright Theory Paul Teller 16. Cartwright on Wholism Michael Esfeld 17. How Classical and Quantum States Relate: Cartwright's Views of Quantum Theory Brigitte Falkenburg 18. Nancy Cartwright's Replies Bibliography of Nancy Cartwright (1971-2003)

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