Nancy Cartwright#
| Membership Number: | 4798 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.dur.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/?id=10659 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 - present Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Durham University
- 1997 Professor of Philosophy, University of San Diego (Winter Quarter)
- 1991 - 2012 Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London
- 1973 - 1989 Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University, California
Fields of Scholarship
- History and philosophy of science (especially physics and economics)
- Evidence, especially for evidence-based policy
- Causal inference
- Objectivity in science
- Philosophy of social technology
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Carus Lectures (APA 2017 Pacific Division Meeting), Seattle:
- 2017 The Martin R. Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement of the Phi Beta Kappa Society (alongside Elliott Sober)
- 2016 Associate Member, Senior Common Room at Wadham College, Oxford
- 2016 Fellow, The Academy of Social Sciences
- 2015 John Dewey Lecture: 2015 Pacific Division APA meeting
- 2014 Tsing Hua Honorary Distinguished Chair Professor, awarded by the National Tsing Hua University
- 2013 Honorary Degree, Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, University of St Andrews
- 2012 Medallion, Distinguished Alumna, University of Pittsburgh
- 2008 President, American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division)
- 2008 President, Philosophy of Science Association
- 2007 Titular Member, Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences (A.I.P.S.)
- 2002 Associate Member, Nuffield College, Oxford
- 2001 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Science
- 1999 Member, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (The German National Academy of Natural Science)
- 1996 Fellow, British Academy
- 1996 Old Dominion Fellow, Philosophy, Princeton University
- 1993 Fellow, MacArthur Foundation
- 1987 Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), Berlin
- 1982 Fellow, ZiF (Center for Interdisciplinary Research), Bielefeld, Germany
- 1971 Postdoctoral Fellow, U.S. National Science Foundation, Cambridge University
