Walker-Ames Lecture Series: Nancy Cartwright March 6, 2008

Nancy Cartwright is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California at San Diego. She is also Director of the LSE Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science. During the first half of her career at Stanford University she specialized in philosophy of physics and in the join of history and philosophy of science; since going to LSE and UCSD she has turned her attentions to philosophy of economics and social science, where she has special interests in causation, modelling, and evidence.