Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics

摘要

For the past thirty years, Nancy Cartwright has been one of the most significant philosophers of science. Beginning with a focus on physics, she was at the forefront of the movement to use philosophy to help to understand the practices of physics as seen from the working physicists' point of view rather than simply to pronounce on those practices from an Olympian, but perhaps irrelevant, perspective. Starting with her Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement (1989), she has steadily taken in a wider scope of sciences, including social sciences.