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My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy
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In My Life As A 10 Year Old Boy Nancy Cartwright exposes the behind-the-scenes world of The Simpsons through her own 'rather curious' perspective, and charts its stratospheric rise from a tiny slot on The Tracey Ullman Show to its Emmy-Award-winning ubiquity of today. The Simpsons is now aired in 95 countries worldwide and celebrities beg to play ...
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The Large, the Small and the Human Mind
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Roger Penrose, Malcolm Longair
Roger Penrose's original and provocative ideas about the large-scale physics of the Universe, the small-scale world of quantum physics and the physics of the mind have been the subject of controversy and discussion. These ideas were proposed in his best-selling books The Emperor's New Mind and Shadows of the Mind. In this book, he summarises and ...
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How the Laws of Physics Lie
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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, ...
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Swords for Hire: Two of the Most Unlikely Heroes Youll Ever Meet
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William Stuart Allen, Nancy Cartwright (Foreword by), David Michael Beck (Illustrator)
(NATIONAL BOOK/CENTER PUNCH PRESS--1 title--SPECIFIC COPY)William Stuart AllenIllustrated David Michael BeckThis BookSense Top 10 Fantasy Pick teams young Sam Hatcher with Rigby Skeet, a wisecracking Royal Guardsman. The two must rescue King Olive, who was betrayed by his odd, worm-loving brother, and is imprisoned in the dungeon of the superhuman ...
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Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement
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This book argues for the place of capacities within an grounds of meaning, not method. Yet it is questions of method that should concern the modern empiricist: can capacities be measured? Cartwright argues that they are measured if anything is. Stanford University's Gravity-Probe-B will measure capacities in a cryogenic dewar deep in space. More ...
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The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science
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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 empiricism teaches us we should - we end up with ...
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The Large, the Small AMD the Human Mind
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Roger Penrose, Abner Shimony (Contributions by), Nancy Cartwright (Contributions by)
In this book, Roger Penrose presents a masterly summary of those areas of physics in which he feels there are major unsolved problems. These ideas are then challenged by three distinguished experts from different backgrounds - Abner Shimony and Nancy Cartwright as Philosophers of science and Stephen Hawking as a theoretical physicist and ...
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Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics
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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 ...
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Hunting Causes and Using Them
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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 ...
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Otto Neurath: Philosophy Between Science and Politics
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Nancy Cartwright, Jordi Cat, Lola Fleck
An international team of four authors, led by distinguished philosopher of science, Nancy Cartwright, and leading scholar of the Vienna Circle, Thomas E. Uebel, have produced this lucid and elegant study of a much-neglected figure. The book, which depicts Neurath's science in the political, economic and intellectual milieu in which it was ...
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Lo Grande, Lo Pequeno y La Mente Humana
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Roger Penrose, Malcolm Longair (Editor), Nancy Cartwright (Contributions by)
Roger Penrose's original and provocative ideas about the large-scale physics of the Universe, the small-scale world of quantum physics and the physics of the mind have been the subject of controversy and discussion. These ideas were set forth in his best-selling books The Emperor's New Mind and Shadows of the Mind. In this book, he summarises and ...
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The Dappled World
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Otto Neurath: Philosophy Between Science and Politics
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Lola Fleck, Nancy Cartwright, Quentin Skinner (Editor)
An international team of four authors, led by distinguished philosopher of science, Nancy Cartwright, and leading scholar of the Vienna Circle, Thomas E. Uebel, have produced this lucid and elegant study of a much-neglected figure. The book, which depicts Neurath's science in the political, economic and intellectual milieu in which it was ...
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Idealization XII : correcting the model : idealization and abstraction in the sciences
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Martin R. Jones, Nancy Cartwright
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