Nancy Cartwright: 4 books
Evidence-Based Policy
A Practical Guide to Doing It Better
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
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...
The Dappled World
A Study of the Boundaries of Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 1999
It is often supposed that the spectacular successes of our modern mathematical sciences support a lofty vision of a world completely ordered by one single elegant theory. In this book Nancy Cartwright argues to the contrary. When we draw our image of the world from the way modern science works - as...
Nature, the Artful Modeler
Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World and How We Can Arrange It Better
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
This is a volume in the highly respected Carus Lectures Series. Previous volumes have sold well, for example: Dependent Rational Animals by MacIntyre has sold 6, 039 and The Abuse of Beauty by Danto has sold 3,615.
Video Enhanced Reflective Practice
Professional Development through Attuned Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Video Enhanced Reflective Practice (VERP), an application of Video Interaction Guidance, supports individuals or groups to reflect on and develop their professional communication, teaching or therapeutic skills with their clients through shared review of moments of attuned interaction in video clips...