Media Events & Interviews

Interview: Philosophy of Life: In conversation with Professor Nancy Cartwright (at 80)

HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 2020, Hay-on-Wye:
Discussion Panel: “Beyond Material.”

HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 2019, Hay-on-Wye:
Talk: “Science, Trust & Truth.”
Discussion Panel: “The End of All Things (with John Dupré and Subir Sarkar).”
Discussion Panel: Sense and Nonsense

HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 2018, Hay-on-Wye:
Discussion Panel: “The Edge of Reality.”

UC San Diego Professor Recognized as One of World’s Most Influential Living Philosopher

Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection (PHAP), Learning Stream on Humanitarian Coordination: NGOs in government-led and refugee coordination contexts (via Webinar)

BBC Radio 4, Whodunnit? ‘The Pregnant Teen Vanishes: Conspiracy to Commit’ discussing social policy in relation to the decline in teen pregnancy figures in the UK

HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 2016, Hay-on-Wye:
Discussion Panel: “The Elegant Truth.”
Discussion Panel: “Explaining the Inexplicable.”
Discussion Panel: “Language and the World.”
IAI Academy: “Evidence and Ideology.”

HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 2015, Hay-on-Wye:
Discussion Panel: “Seeing Things Whole.”
Discussion Panel: “The Comedy of Errors.”
Discussion Panel: “Unnatural Laws and Unexplained Events.”

HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 2014, Hay-on-Wye:
Discussion Panel: “Ultimate Proof.”
Discussion Panel: “The Elegant Universe.”

Tea, Cake and Philosophy: Should we see independent evidence as an illusion? (discussion panel)

BBC Radio 4 with Ben Goldacre, discussing her new book (written with Jeremy Hardie) Evidence Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing it Better

Linus Pauling Memorial Lecture, Institute for Science, Engineering and Public Policy, ‘From Science to Policy.  What’s so Good about Evidence?’

BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, ‘Logical Positivism’

Filosofisk Supplement, ‘Philosophy of Dappled Things – A Conversation with Nancy Cartwright’ by Gry Oftedal

BBC Radio 4, Science Friction series, ‘The Trouble with Physics’

RSA, Symposium ‘The Trouble with Physics – The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next’, Lecture ‘Physics in Conflict’

BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, ‘Karl Popper’

Sciences et Avenir, Interview, ‘Les lois de la physique sont fictives’

‘Professor Nancy Cartwright’, House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee, Scientific Advice, Risk and Evidence Based Policy Making: Seventh Report, Session 2005-2006, Vol 2, p. EV 96, November 2006

‘The Place of Philosophy and History of Science in the Science Curriculum’, House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee, Science Education from 14 to 19: Third Report of Session 2001–02, appendix 44, pp. 190 –191, February 2002

BBC Radio 4, Start the Week, ‘The Myth of Universalism in Science and Politics’

BBC Radio 4, In Our Time, ‘“Ubiquity” The Science of History…or Why the World is Simpler than we Think’

BBC Radio 4 series, ‘A Brief History of the End of Everything’

Prospect – Roundtable Discussions, 5th Anniversary Issue, 56 – ‘The Meaning of Genome’

BBC Radio 4, Analysis, ‘Wrong, Scary or the Greatest Thing?’

BBC/Open University programme, ‘The Mother of all Collisions’

Interview by Jonathan Walmsley in the Philosophers’ Magazine, Autumn 1998, pp. 36–38.

BBC Radio 4, Analysis, ‘2+2=5’

BBC Radio 3, Living Ideas, on Otto Neurath

American TV series, In Search of Wisdom, Interview

‘The Cartwright Discussion’ in In Conversation: Donald Davidson, video and monograph by Philosophy International

BBC2 Television, Brains Trust

Cogito, ‘An Interview with Nancy Cartwright’