A wave of recent work in metaphysics seeks to undermine the anti-reductionist, functionalist
consensus of the past few decades in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. That …

In this sequel to the highly acclaimed Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth, Psillos
discusses recent developments in scientific realism and explores realist theses and …

In recent decades, the analysis of causal relations has become a topic of central importance
in analytic philosophy. More recently, dispositional properties have also become objects of …

Because of the obstacles to experimentation and because of the complexity of the social
world, the social sciences present fertile grounds for investigating issues surrounding …

Nancy Cartwright has been both an empiricist and a realist. Where many philosophers have
thought that these two positions are incompatible (or, at any rate, very strange bedfellows) …

This article defends a realist account of the composition of Newtonian forces, dubbed
'residualism'. According to residualism, the resultant force acting on a body is identical to the …

Do component forces exist in conjoined circumstances? Cartwright (1980) says no; Creary
(1981) says yes. I'm on Cartwright's side in this matter, but find several problems with her …

In this book Emma Ruttkamp demonstrates the power of the full-blown employment of the
model-theoretic paradigm in the philosophy of science. Within this paradigm she gives an …

Nancy Cartwright argues that so-called capacities, not universal laws of nature, best explain
the often complex way events actually unfold. On this view, science would represent a world …

While there are reasons to believe that both component forces and a resultant force operate
on a body in combined circumstances, the threat of overdetermination largely prevents …