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The Tangle of Science argues that the scientific method, rigour, and objectivity are insufficient to guarantee reliability. It shows how reliable science is underpinned by a vast network of other scientific products, brings into focus neglected areas of science, and emphasizes how every product works together to support results we can trust.

What is science and what can it do? This innovative book uses examples from the physical, life, and social sciences to focus on all the products of science and how they work together. It will interest anyone who thinks about science and how it is practised in our society.

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Exposes the behind-the-scenes world of "The Simpsons" through the author's own 'rather curious' perspective, and charts its stratospheric rise from a tiny slot on the "Tracey Ullman Show" to Emmy award winning status.

Ever since David Hume, empiricists have barred powers and capacities from nature. In this book Cartwright argues that capacities are essential in our scientific world, and, contrary to empiricist orthodoxy, that they can meet sufficiently strict demands for testability. Econometrics is one discipline where probabilities are used to measure causal capacities, and the technology of modern physics provides several examples of testing capacities (...

In this sequence of philosophical essays about natural science, Nancy Cartwright argues that fundamental explanatory laws, the deepest and most admired successes of modern physics, do not in fact describe the regularities that exist in nature. Yet she is not `anti-realist'. Rather, she draws a novel distinction, arguing that theoretical entities, and the complex and localized laws that describe them, can be interpreted realistically, but that ...

A study of Neurath's theory of science in its economic, political and social contexts.

This is a much-needed new introduction to a field that has been transformed in recent years by exciting new subjects, ideas, and methods. It is designed for students in both philosophy and the social sciences. Topics include ontology, objectivity, method, measurement, and causal inference, and such issues as well-being and climate change.

This is a much-needed new introduction to a field that has been transformed in recent years by exciting new subjects, ideas, and methods. It is designed for students in both philosophy and the social sciences. Topics include ontology, objectivity, method, measurement, and causal inference, and such issues as well-being and climate change.

Die Rock-Ikone Susanna (Julianne Moore) und der herb-charmante Kunsthändler Beale (Steve Coogan) waren einst ein glückliches New Yorker Ehepaar. Doch Susannas Ruhm ist verblasst und der Reiz ihrer Beziehung auch. Die beiden lassen sich scheiden. Der Schatten dieser Trennung fällt auf ihre zauberhafte sechsjährige Tochter Maisie, um die ein heftiger Streit entsteht. Maisies Leben gerät aus den Fugen. Während Beale eine Beziehung mit dem Kinderm...

Die Rock-Ikone Susanna (Julianne Moore) und der herb-charmante Kunsthändler Beale (Steve Coogan) waren einst ein glückliches New Yorker Ehepaar. Doch Susannas Ruhm ist verblasst und der Reiz ihrer Beziehung auch. Die beiden lassen sich scheiden. Der Schatten dieser Trennung fällt auf ihre zauberhafte sechsjährige Tochter Maisie, um die ein heftiger Streit entsteht. Maisies Leben gerät aus den Fugen. Während Beale eine Beziehung mit dem Kinderm...

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Over the last twenty or so years, it has become standard to require policy makers to base their recommendations on evidence. That is now uncontroversial to the point of triviality¿of course, policy should be based on the facts. But are the methods that policy makers rely on to gather and analyze evidence the right ones? In Evidence-Based Policy, Nancy Cartwright, an eminent scholar, and Jeremy Hardie, who has had a long and successful career i...

This important and innovative collection of essays argues for a patchwork of laws of nature.

This important and innovative collection of essays argues for a patchwork of laws of nature.

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Hunting Causes and Using Them argues that causation is not one thing, as commonly assumed, but many. There is a huge variety of causal relations, each with different characterizing features, different methods for discovery and different uses to which it can be put. In this collection of new and previously published essays, Nancy Cartwright provides a critical survey of philosophical and economic literature on causality, with a special focus on...

Hunting Causes and Using Them argues that causation is not one thing, as commonly assumed, but many. There is a huge variety of causal relations, each with different characterizing features, different methods for discovery and different uses to which it can be put. In this collection of new and previously published essays, Nancy Cartwright provides a critical survey of philosophical and economic literature on causality, with a special focus on...

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