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CHESS Working Paper Series

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Working Paper	Author(s)	PDF
Does this policy work here? Using evidence for better policy design, prediction and evaluation CHESS Working Paper No. 2025-01 March 2025	Nancy Cartwright (Durham University), Eileen Munro (London School of Economics) and Brendan Kelters, Durham University	CWP_2025_01
How to trust the experts without being one of them? CHESS Working Paper No. 2023-02 September 2023	Eleonora Montuschi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)	CHESS Working Paper - Montuschi
Modelling Objectively CHESS Working Paper No. 2023-01 February 2023	Nancy Cartwright (Durham University and University of California, San Diego) and Faron Ray (University of California, San Diego)	CHESS Working Paper No. 2023-01
Not for profit, but for use: is philosophy good for practice? CHESS Working Paper No. 2020-05 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project] December 2020	Eleonora Montuschi, Ca' Foscari University	Not for profit, but for use: is philosophy good for practice?
Causality and its implications for Theories of Change and evaluations of complex systems CHESS Working Paper No. 2020-04 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project] December 2020	Eileen Munro, London School of Economics and Political Science	CWP_2020_04
Using Middle-Level Theory to Improve Programme and Evaluation Design CHESS Working Paper No. 2020-03 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project] September 2020	Nancy Cartwright, Durham University	CWP_2020_03
Making predictions of programme success more reliable CHESS Working Paper No. 2020-02 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project] September 2020	Nancy Cartwright (Durham University), Lucy Charlton, Matt Juden (University of London), Tamlyn Munslow (Durham University) and Richard Beadon Williams (Durham University)	CWP_2020_02
Causal processes – a social policy example CHESS Working Paper No. 2020-01 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project] August 2020	Nancy Cartwright, Durham University and UCSD and John Pemberton, London School of Economics	CWP_2020_01
Theory and Evidence in Economics CHESS Working Paper No. 2019-06 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project] July 2019	Julian Reiss, Durham University	CWP_2019_06
What Are the Drivers of Induction? Towards a Material Theory+ CHESS Working Paper No. 2019-05 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project] July 2019	Julian Reiss, Durham University	CWP_2019_05
For whom does ‘what works’ work? The political economy of evidence-based education CHESS Working Paper No. 2019-04 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project] April 2019	Nick Cowen, New York University School of Law	CWP_2019_04
Predictive analytics in child protection CHESS Working Paper No. 2019-03 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project] April 2019	Eileen Munro, Durham University and LSE	CWP_2019_03
Street-level Theories of Change: Adapting the Medical Model of Evidence-based Practice for Policing CHESS Working Paper No. 2019-02 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project] February 2019	Nick Cowen, New York University School of Law and Nancy Cartwright, Durham University and UCSD	CWP_2019_02
Objectivity in Science and Law: A Shared Rescue Strategy CHESS Working Paper No. 2019-01 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project] February 2019	Matt Burch, University of Essex and Katherine Furman, University College Cork	CWP_2019_01
Mechanisms, ceteris paribus laws and covering-law explanation CHESS Working Paper No. 2018-04 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project] October 2018	Nancy Cartwright, Durham University and UCSD, John Pemberton, London School of Economics and Sarah Wieten, Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics	CWP_2018_04
Trade-offs between Epistemic and Moral Values in Evidence-Based Policy CHESS Working Paper No. 2018-03 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project] March 2018	Donal Khosrowi, Durham University	CHESSK4UWP_2018_03
A Technical Overview of the Evidence Framework Approach: Practical Ways of Thinking about Evidence CHESS Working Paper No. 2018-02 March 2018	Paul Pearce, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory UK	CHESSWP_2018_02
Constructed Objectivity and Realist Presuppositions: a Kantian Framework CHESS Working Paper No. 2018-01 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project] March 2018	Eleonora Montuschi, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice	CHESSK4UWP_2018_01
How to Learn about Causes in the Single Case CHESS Working Paper No. 2017-04 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project] December 2017	Prof Nancy Cartwright, Durham University	CHESSK4UWP_2017_04
Against External Validity CHESS Working Paper No. 2017-03 November 2017	Prof Julian Reiss, Durham University	CHESSK4UWP_2017_03
Fact-Value Entanglement in Positive Economics CHESS Working Paper No. 2017-02 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project] April 2017	Prof Julian Reiss, Durham University
Improving Child Safety: deliberation, judgement and empirical research [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project] February 2017	Munro, E., Cartwright, N., Hardie, J. and Montuschi, E.	CWP-2017-01
What’s so special about empirical adequacy? CHESS Working Paper No. 2016-08 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project] September 2016	Sindhuja Bhakthavatsalam, California State University and Prof Nancy Cartwright, Durham University and UCSD	CHESSK4UWP_2016_08
A Theory of Measurement CHESS Working Paper No. 2016-07 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project] September 2016	Prof Norman M. Bradburn, NORC and University of Chicago, Prof Nancy Cartwright, Durham University and UCSD and Jonathan Fuller, University of Toronto	CHESSK4UWP_2016_07
Are laws of nature consistent with contingency? CHESS Working Paper No. 2016-06 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project] September 2016	Prof Nancy Cartwright, Durham University and UCSD and Pedro Merlussi, Durham University	CHESSK4UWP_2016_06
Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials CHESS Working Paper No. 2016-05 [Produced as part of the Knowledge for Use (K4U) Research Project] August 2016	Prof Sir Angus Deaton, Princeton University and Prof Nancy Cartwright, Durham University and UCSD	CHESSK4UWP_2016_05
The Poetry of Science: Creativity and Constraint CHESS Working Paper No. 2016-04 April 2016	Prof Tom McLeish, Professor, Department of Physics, Durham University	CHESSWP_2016_04
Iraq's Dark Shadow: Tony Blair's moment of truth? CHESS Working Paper No. 2016-03 April 2016	Marie-Hélène Labbé, Visiting Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Durham University	CWP-Labbev2-2016-03
Causality, Teleology and Explanation in Social Sciences CHESS Working Paper No. 2016-02 February 2016	Ricardo F. Crespo, IAE Universidad Austral and National Council of Scientific Research (Argentina)	CHESS_WP_2016_02
Objectivity – What it is for, when we can have it and when we can’t CHESS Working Paper No. 2016-01 February 2016	Jeremy Hardie, London School of Economics	CWP_Hardie_2016-01
Archaeological Modeling, Representational and Experimental CHESS Working Paper No. 2015-04 December 2015	Alison Wylie, University of Washington (Seattle) and Durham University	CWP04-15
Making the Most of the Evidence: Evidence-based policy in the classroom CHESS Working Paper No. 2015-03 July 2015	Nick Cowen, Kings College London and Nancy Cartwright, Durham University with Baljinder Virk and Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes	Making the Most of the Evidence: Evidence-based policy in the classroom
Single Case Causes: What is Evidence and Why CHESS Working Paper No. 2015-02 March 2015	Nancy Cartwright, Durham University	CHESSWP_2015_02
A Pragmatist Theory of Evidence CHESS Working Paper No. 2015-01 February 2015	Julian Reiss, Durham University	CHESS Working Paper No. 2015-01
Making the Most of the Evidence in Education: A Guide for Working Out What Works...Here and Now CHESS Working Paper No. 2014-03 October 2014	Nick Cowen, King's College London, and Nancy Cartwright, Durham University	CHESS Working Paper No. 2014-03
Deliberating Policy: Where morals and methods mix – and not always for the best CHESS Working Paper No. 2014-02 July 2014	Nancy Cartwright, Durham University	Cartwright 2014-02
Struggling Over the Soul of Economics: Objectivity vs Expertise CHESS Working Paper No. 2013-01 September 2013	Julian Reiss, Durham University	Reiss WP 2013-01

CHESS Working Paper Series

(Online) ISSN 2053-2660

Modelling Objectively

Not for profit, but for use: is philosophy good for practice?

Causality and its implications for Theories of Change and evaluations of complex systems

Using Middle-Level Theory to Improve Programme and Evaluation Design

Making predictions of programme success more reliable

Causal processes – a social policy example

Theory and Evidence in Economics

What Are the Drivers of Induction? Towards a Material Theory+

For whom does ‘what works’ work? The political economy of evidence-based education

Predictive analytics in child protection

Street-level Theories of Change: Adapting the Medical Model of Evidence-based Practice for Policing

Objectivity in Science and Law: A Shared Rescue Strategy

Mechanisms, ceteris paribus laws and covering-law explanation

Trade-offs between Epistemic and Moral Values in Evidence-Based Policy

A Technical Overview of the Evidence Framework Approach: Practical Ways of Thinking about Evidence

Constructed Objectivity and Realist Presuppositions: a Kantian Framework

How to Learn about Causes in the Single Case

Against External Validity

Fact-Value Entanglement in Positive Economics

Improving Child Safety: deliberation, judgement and empirical research

What’s so special about empirical adequacy?

A Theory of Measurement

Are laws of nature consistent with contingency?

Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials

The Poetry of Science: Creativity and Constraint

Iraq's Dark Shadow: Tony Blair's moment of truth?

Causality, Teleology and Explanation in Social Sciences

Objectivity – What it is for, when we can have it and when we can’t

Archaeological Modeling, Representational and Experimental

Making the Most of the Evidence: Evidence-based policy in the classroom

Single Case Causes: What is Evidence and Why

A Pragmatist Theory of Evidence

Making the Most of the Evidence in Education: A Guide for Working Out What Works...Here and Now

Deliberating Policy: Where morals and methods mix – and not always for the best

Struggling Over the Soul of Economics: Objectivity vs Expertise