Around 1948
Nancy at… an earlier stage!
1964
Nancy (upper left corner) at 20 with University of Pittsburgh ‘Pitt News’ staff
1979
Nancy at 35, with Ian Hacking
1987
Nancy at 43, with Stuart, Emily, and Sophie
2004
Nancy at 60, in Finland, with a group of Stanford former PhD students
2007
Nancy at the occasion of the defence of Menno Rol, University of Groningen
2012
Nancy receives an honorary degree from Southern Methodist University
2013
Nancy, Eleonora and Carl in San Diego
2014
Nancy at her 70th birthday lunch with Sandy Mitchell in Oxford
Nancy at 70, after a half-marathon in California (with Stepson Daniel)
2019
Nancy at 75, in Durham
2021
Nancy at 77, with Adrian and Omar in CHESS picnic
2022
Nancy at 78, dinner with Eileen Munro, Damien Fennell, Maha Said and Omar El Mawas in Paris
Nancy and Carl before her Hypatia Prize ceremony
2023
Nancy at her 79th birthday afternoon tea with family
Nancy at dinner with her friends in Durham
2024
Nancy at her 80th birthday symposium, with Peter and Elizabeth Fisher
A birthday celebration and philosophical symposium was held on June 22, 2024 in Kenworthy Hall, Durham University to celebrate Nancy’s 80th birthday.
Programme
10:30-11:00 Welcome to the conference: Professor Robin Hendry
11:00-12:30 Dr. Katherine Furman: Distrusting Medicine with All the Feels
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Professor Sandra Mitchell: Role Obligations and Complex Social Systems
15:30-16:00 Tea
16:00-17:30 Professor Sir Angus Deaton: Loose Lips Sink Ships: Are Economists’ Errors Breaking the World?
17:30-17:35 Nancy Cartwright, speaking for herself!
17:35 Drink Reception
Read more about this birthday symposium as well as a recent interview with Nancy: Philosophy of Life: In conversation with Professor Nancy Cartwright (at 80).