Nancy Cartwright

Nancy Cartwright is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham, UK and at the University of California, San Diego, USA. She is former president of the Philosophy of Science Association and a MacArthur fellow and Fellow of the Brtish Academy and of the American Philosophical Society. She has authored several books, including The Dappled World (1999), Hunting Causes and Using Them (2007), and Philosophy of Social Science: A New Introduction, with Eleonora Montuschi (2014).