Nancy Cartwright - Publications

Affiliations: 
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 
Area:
Philosophy

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2020 Joyce KE, Cartwright N. Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice: Predicting What Will Work Locally: American Educational Research Journal. 57: 1045-1082. DOI: 10.3102/0002831219866687  0.305
2020 Cartwright N. Middle-range theory: Without it what could anyone do? Theoria-Revista De Teoria Historia Y Fundamentos De La Ciencia. DOI: 10.1387/Theoria.21479  0.423
2020 Cartwright N, Pemberton J, Wieten S. Mechanisms, laws and explanation European Journal For Philosophy of Science. 10. DOI: 10.1007/S13194-020-00284-Y  0.354
2018 Cartwright N. What evidence should guidelines take note of? Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. PMID 29882333 DOI: 10.1111/Jep.12959  0.307
2017 Bhakthavatsalam S, Cartwright N. What's so special about empirical adequacy? European Journal For Philosophy of Science. 7: 445-465. PMID 32010411 DOI: 10.1007/S13194-017-0171-7  0.678
2017 Deaton A, Cartwright N. Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials. Social Science & Medicine (1982). PMID 29331519 DOI: 10.1016/J.Socscimed.2017.12.005  0.311
2017 Cartwright N, Hardie J. Predicting What Will Happen When You Intervene. Clinical Social Work Journal. 45: 270-279. PMID 28845065 DOI: 10.1007/S10615-016-0615-0  0.328
2017 Bateson P, Cartwright N, Dupré J, Laland K, Noble D. New trends in evolutionary biology: biological, philosophical and social science perspectives Interface Focus. 7: 20170051. DOI: 10.1098/Rsfs.2017.0051  0.302
2017 Cowen N, Virk B, Mascarenhas-Keyes S, Cartwright N. Randomized Controlled Trials: How Can We Know “What Works”? Critical Review. 29: 265-292. DOI: 10.1080/08913811.2017.1395223  0.333
2016 Cartwright N. Contingency and the order of nature. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. PMID 26762897 DOI: 10.1016/J.Shpsc.2015.12.008  0.349
2016 Cartwright N. Where’s the Rigor When You Need It? Foundations and Trends in Accounting. 10: 106-124. DOI: 10.1561/1400000045  0.412
2016 Cartwright N. Loose Talk Kills: What’s Worrying about Unity of Method Philosophy of Science. 83: 768-778. DOI: 10.1086/687862  0.323
2016 Cartwright N. Scientific models versus social reality Building Research and Information. 44: 334-337. DOI: 10.1080/09613218.2015.1083811  0.349
2014 Pemberton J, Cartwright N. Ceteris Paribus Laws Need Machines to Generate Them Erkenntnis. 79: 1745-1758. DOI: 10.1007/S10670-014-9639-4  0.305
2013 Cartwright N, Stegenga J. A Theory of Evidence for Evidence-Based Policy Evidence, Inference and Enquiry. DOI: 10.5871/bacad/9780197264843.003.0011  0.628
2013 Cartwright N. Knowing what we are talking about: Why evidence doesn't always travel Evidence and Policy. 9: 97-112. DOI: 10.1332/174426413X662581  0.313
2012 Rol M, Cartwright N. Warranting the use of causal claims: A non-trivial case for interdisciplinarity Theoria (Spain). 27: 189-202. DOI: 10.1387/Theoria.4075  0.348
2012 Cartwright N. Presidential Address: Will this policy work for you? Predicting effectiveness better: How philosophy helps Philosophy of Science. 79: 973-989. DOI: 10.1086/668041  0.373
2011 Cartwright N. A philosopher's view of the long road from RCTs to effectiveness. Lancet (London, England). 377: 1400-1. PMID 21520508 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60563-1  0.361
2011 Cartwright N. Predicting 'It will work for us': (Way) beyond statistics Causality in the Sciences. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199574131.003.0035  0.335
2011 Cartwright N, Efstathiou S. Hunting causes and using them: Is there no bridge from here to there? International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. 25: 223-241. DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2011.605245  0.607
2010 Cartwright N, Munro E. The limitations of randomized controlled trials in predicting effectiveness. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 16: 260-6. PMID 20367845 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2753.2010.01382.X  0.379
2010 Fennell D, Cartwright N. Does Roush show that evidence should be probable? Synthese. 175: 289-310. DOI: 10.1007/S11229-009-9510-3  0.353
2009 Cartwright N, Goldfinch A, Howick J. Evidence-based policy: Where is our theory of evidence? Journal of Children's Services. 4: 6-14. DOI: 10.5042/Jcs.2010.0017  0.395
2009 Cartwright N. What are randomised controlled trials good for? Philosophical Studies. 147: 59-70. DOI: 10.1007/S11098-009-9450-2  0.337
2009 Cartwright N. Evidence-based policy: What's to be done about relevance? : f 2008 Oberlin Philosophy Colloquium Philosophical Studies. 143: 127-136. DOI: 10.1007/S11098-008-9311-4  0.369
2009 Cartwright N. If no capacities then no credible worlds. but can models reveal capacities? Erkenntnis. 70: 45-58. DOI: 10.1007/S10670-008-9136-8  0.336
2008 Suárez M, Cartwright N. Theories: Tools versus models Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B - Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 39: 62-81. DOI: 10.1016/J.Shpsb.2007.05.004  0.4
2007 Cartwright N, Alexandrova A, Efstathiou S, Hamilton A, Muntean I. Laws The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199234769.003.0027  0.654
2007 Cartwright N, Frigg R. String theory under scrutiny Physics World. 20: 14-15. DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/20/9/24  0.337
2007 Cartwright N. Are RCTs the Gold Standard? Biosocieties. 2: 11-20. DOI: 10.1017/S1745855207005029  0.317
2006 Cartwright N. Where Is the Theory in Our “Theories” of Causality? The Journal of Philosophy. 103: 55-66. DOI: 10.5840/Jphil2006103227  0.338
2006 Cartwright N. From metaphysics to method: Comments on manipulability and the causal Markov condition British Journal For the Philosophy of Science. 57: 197-218. DOI: 10.1093/Bjps/Axi156  0.306
2006 Cartwright N. Well-ordered science: Evidence for use Philosophy of Science. 73: 981-990. DOI: 10.1086/518803  0.437
2005 Cartwright N. Where Do Laws of Nature Come From?* Dialectica. 51: 65-78. DOI: 10.1111/J.1746-8361.1997.Tb00021.X  0.332
2004 Cartwright N. Causation: One word, many things Philosophy of Science. 71: 805-819. DOI: 10.1086/426771  0.401
2003 Cartwright N. Two Theorems on Invariance and Causality Philosophy of Science. 70: 203-224. DOI: 10.1086/367876  0.335
2002 Cartwright N. Against modularity, the Causal Markov Condition, and any link between the two: Comments on Hausman and Woodward British Journal For the Philosophy of Science. 53: 411-453. DOI: 10.1093/Bjps/53.3.411  0.334
2002 Cartwright N. In favor of laws that are not ceteris paribus after all Erkenntnis. 57: 425-439. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1009-1_8  0.387
2000 Hollinger DA, Cartwright N. Otto Neurath: Philosophy between Science and Politics The American Historical Review. 105: 637. DOI: 10.2307/1431976  0.306
2000 Cartwright N. An empiricist defence of singular causes Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement. 46: 47-58. DOI: 10.1017/S1358246100010365  0.375
1999 Cartwright N. The limits of exact science, from economics to physics Perspectives On Science. 7: 318-336. DOI: 10.1162/Posc.1999.7.3.318  0.392
1997 Cartwright N. Models: The blueprints for laws Philosophy of Science. 64. DOI: 10.1086/392608  0.391
1995 Cartwright N. Reply to Eells, Humphreys and Morrison Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 55: 177. DOI: 10.2307/2108317  0.388
1995 Eells E, Cartwright N. Cartwright on Probabilistic Causality: Types, Tokens, and Capacities@@@Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 55: 169-175. DOI: 10.2307/2108316  0.398
1995 Cartwright N. Precis of Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement@@@Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 55: 153-156. DOI: 10.2307/2108313  0.41
1993 Cartwright N. In Defence of ‘This Worldly’ Causality: Comments on van Fraassen’s Laws and Symmetry Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 53: 423-429. DOI: 10.2307/2107780  0.385
1993 Chang H, Cartwright N. Causality and realism in the EPR experiment Erkenntnis. 38: 169-190. DOI: 10.1007/Bf01128978  0.339
1991 Cartwright N. Can wholism reconcile the inaccuracy of theory with the accuracy of prediction? Synthese. 89: 3-13. DOI: 10.1007/Bf00413796  0.395
1991 Cartwright N, Jones M. How to hunt quantum causes Erkenntnis. 35: 205-231. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-3490-3_11  0.321
1989 Cartwright N. The Born-Einstein debate: Where application and explanation separate Synthese. 81: 271-282. DOI: 10.1007/Bf00869317  0.375
1988 Dupre J, Cartwright N. Probability and Causality: Why Hume and Indeterminism Don't Mix NoûS. 22: 521. DOI: 10.2307/2215455  0.33
1987 Cartwright N. The Shaky Game: Einstein, Reality, and the Quantum Theory. Arthur Fine Isis. 78: 274-275. DOI: 10.1086/354419  0.305
1985 Cartwright N. Quantum Theory and Measurement. John Archibald Wheeler , Wojciech Hubert Zurek Philosophy of Science. 52: 480-481. DOI: 10.1086/289264  0.3
1983 Cartwright N, Nordby J. HOW APPROXIMATIONS TAKE US AWAY FROM THEORY AND TOWARDS THE TRUTH Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. 64: 273-280. DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-0114.1983.Tb00200.X  0.331
1979 Cartwright N. Causal Laws and Effective Strategies NoûS. 13: 419. DOI: 10.2307/2215337  0.339
1978 Cartwright N. Comments on Wesley Salmon's 'science and religion ...' Philosophical Studies. 33: 177-183. DOI: 10.1007/Bf00571885  0.304
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