Na Wang is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at Beihang University. She is Deputy Director of Youth Work Committee of The Chinese Society for Dialectics of Nature/Philosophy of Nature, Science and Technology (from2012 ).
She holds a PhD in Philosophy of Science from Tsinghua University, China and B.A in Philosophy from Beijing Normal University, China. Her research interests lie in general philosophy of science and Feminist Philosophy of Science, and she has published papers on contextuality of knowledge, contexts of discovery and justification, contextual empiricism. Her current work focuses on contexts of discovery and justification, disunity of scientific theory and practice.
Dates of Visit: September 2014 - September 2015
Project Title: On Nancy Cartwright’s thought of disunity of scientific theory and practice
Project Description: New Empiricism is an influential approach. Cartwright is one of the influential representatives of New Empiricism and the most important and influential philosopher of science today. She emphasizes the perspective of experiences and promotes that the world is dappled; scientific theory and practice are disunited. My project attempts to study the thoughts of disunity of scientific theory and practice systematically. It asks: Where do laws come from? What is the relationship between the theories and models in scientific practice? And I will also study the criticism of the thought further in the research.
My research is funded by China Scholarship Council.