Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:36:29 BST CiteULike: heraclitus's Cartwright http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/author/Cartwright CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/2783331 <i>(13 October 1999)</i><br /><br />In this book Nancy Cartwright argues against a vision of a uniform world completely ordered under a single elegant theory, and proposes instead a patchwork of laws of nature. Combining classic and newly written essays, The Dappled World offers important methodological lessons for both the natural and the social sciences, and will interest anyone who wants to understand how modern science works. The Dappled World : A Study of the Boundaries of Science Nancy Cartwright (13 October 1999) 2008-05-10T21:10:52-00:00 1999 Cambridge University Press economics http://www.citeulike.org/user/heraclitus/article/2783329 <i>(18 June 2007)</i><br /><br />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 the currently fashionable Bayes-nets and invariance methods - and it exposes a huge gap in that literature. Almost every account treats either exclusively how to hunt causes or how to use them. But where is the bridge between? It's no good knowing how to warrant a causal claim if we don't know what we can do with that claim once we have it. This book will interest philosophers, economists and social scientists. Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics Nancy Cartwright (18 June 2007) 2008-05-10T21:10:04-00:00 2007 Cambridge University Press economics