As loyal readers of this blog know, we have been following the LSE-Gadaffi story closely on this blog (and here).The Independent of London runs a useful blog on the story. A passage in the March 13 story, caught my attention and filled me with sadness. Before I quote it without further comment, let me note that Nancy Cartwright is one of the greatest philosophers of science we have, and her work is clearly animated by a strong moral compass:
"Meanwhile, amid continued allegations of plagiarism by Saif Gaddafi, his formal PhD supervisor, Professor Nancy Cartwright, admitted that she could not be entirely confident that he didn't have help with his thesis. "I can hardly be confident that nobody else helped him since there's evidence that he lifted bits, but I'm confident that it isn't in the sense done by anybody else start to finish," she said."
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