Nancy at Her 80th: The Journey of a Philosopher

1947

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, with Hasok Chang

Nancy with a group of Stanford former PhD students in Finland

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 and Hilary Clinton on the University of St Andrews 500th anniversary when she received an honorary degree from St Andrews

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, St Mary’s College, 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).