Nancy Cartwright

Centre member

Nancy is also:

• Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE);
• Associate of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE
• Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California at San Diego;
• Fellow of the British Academy;
• Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina;
• Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
• Recipient of Chancellor's Associates Faculty Excellence Award for Excellence in Research in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of California at San Diego.

Background

Before joining LSE, Nancy was Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Maryland from 1971 to 1973, and then in the Philosophy Department at Stanford University from 1973 to 1991.

Nancy also had visiting appointments at UCLA, Princeton, Pittsburgh, California Institute of Technology and Oslo University, and has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin, at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld, and at the Pittsburgh Center for the Philosophy of Science.

Nancy has received the MacArthur Fellowship. She was recently past president of the Pacific Division of the American philosophical Associations and of the Philosophy of Science Association.

She studied mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh and graduated summa cum laude in 1966. In 1971, Nancy completed her PhD at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

She lives in Oxford, has two daughters and a granddaughter.

Research interests

• History and philosophy of science (especially physics and economics)
• Causal inference;
• Objectivity in science;
• Evidence, especially for evidence-based policy.

More information

• Personal website
• Departmental profile page
• LSE Experts directory listing