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7 Jun 2024: Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist Philosophy of Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022).

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Eoin Carter. PhD student. College: Darwin. Supervisor: Jim Secord. Thesis topic: Radical Politics and Popular Science in Britain, 1815–48. Summary. My research explores the relationship

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Rhianna Elliott. PhD student. PhD research funded by a Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship. College: Newnham. Supervisors: Prof Lauren Kassell; Prof Daniel Margocsy. Advisor: Dr Rebecca

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Anna Alexandrova. Professor in Philosophy of Science. I study how scientists navigate morally charged and complex phenomena and the role of formal tools such as models and indicators in

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Silvia Maria Marchiori. PhD student. College: Trinity. Supervisor: Dániel Margócsy. Advisor: Lauren Kassell. Thesis topic: The reception of Cornelius Celsus' De medicina from the Middle

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Jeremy Schneider. Fellow of Trinity College. PhD, Princeton University. Email: js2897@cam.ac.uk. Jeremy Robin Schneider is a historian of early modern science. He received his PhD from

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Sachiko Kusukawa. College Teaching Officer. Tutor and Fellow in the History and Philosophy of Science, Trinity College. Research interests: History of science, cultural and intellectual

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Florence Adams. PhD student. College: Clare. Supervisor: Jacob Stegenga. Advisor: Anna Alexandrova. Thesis topic: Measuring Discrimination. Research areas: Philosophy of social science,

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. PhD Students. Related pages. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Study History and Philosophy of Science. Library and Museum. Research. 2024 University of Cambridge.

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Andreas Sommer. Research Associate. Research. History of the human sciences and medicine; historiographies of science and the occult; scientific naturalism; William James. I'm interested

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Simon Mitton. College Fellow. Life Fellow, St Edmund's College. Fellow Royal Astronomical Society; Fellow Geological Society of London; Fellow Royal Historical Society. Member

7 Jun 2024: Orchids and Dandelions: Categorisation of People in the Research on Differential Plasticity'.

7 Jun 2024: The people who claim to hear the Northern Lights’, BBC Future Article, 4.

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Olin Moctezuma-Burns. PhD student. College: Pembroke. Supervisor: Lauren Kassell and Staffan Müller-Wille. Thesis topic: Kitchen lists and the construction of botanic knowledge in the

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Adrià Segarra. PhD student. College: St John's. Supervisor: Jacob Stegenga. Advisor: Alexander Bird. Thesis topic: A Hybrid Theory of Induction. Research interests: Induction, Evidence

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Dr. M.A. Diamond-Hunter. Teaching Associate. I am a philosopher of science whose current research programme is concerned with how uses of socially-salient and socially important concepts

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Pamela Mackenzie. Postdoctoral Researcher. Dr Pamela Mackenzie is a SSHRC-funded Postdoctoral Researcher and visiting scholar in the History and Philosophy of Science Department, working

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Sheryl Wombell. PhD student. College: Wolfson. Supervisors: Professor Emma Spary, Professor Lauren Kassell. Thesis topic: Navigating health and healing in a seventeenth-century network of

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Richard Staley. Hans Rausing Lecturer and Professor in History and Philosophy of Science. I am a faculty member both in Cambridge and at the University of Copenhagen. I complement

7 Jun 2024: How is water even real?', Symposium: Realism for realistic people, A Copenhagen-Cambridge symposium on Hasok Chang’s philosophy of science, University of Copenhagen (2022).

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Yijie Huang. PhD student. College: St Catharine's. Supervisor: Lauren Kassell and Dániel Margócsy (advisor). Thesis title: The Clock and the Hand: Taking the Pulse in English Medicine,

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Dmitriy Myelnikov. Teaching Associate. Research interests. History of medicine and the life sciences in the twentieth century, especially genetics, molecular biology, microbiology;

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Lauren Kassell. Professor of History of Science and Medicine. Fellow of Pembroke College. On leave from September 2021 to hold the Chair in History of Science at the European University

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Anne Secord. Affiliated Scholar. Research interests: Practices of natural history; history of nineteenth-century popular science, science education, and working-class engagement with

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Xinyi Wen. Research Project. The Doctrine of Signatures in Early Modern Medical Practice. Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship 221115. A walnut looks like the brain, so it can heal brain

7 Jun 2024: Selected publications. ‘Seafaring, Enslavement and the Longitude Problem’, in: Victoria Avery and Jake Subryan Richards (eds.), Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance (Philip Wilson: 2023): 91–93.

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Sophia Crüwell. PhD student . College: St John's. Supervisor: Jacob Stegenga. Thesis topic: A crisis without replication: Replication, the current crisis in psychology, and the Open

7 Jun 2024: This project is the first systematic study to cast light on how theological aspirations connected the Cambridge Botanic Garden to networks of global trade, enslaved peoples and specimen exchange.

7 Jun 2024: 1 (2023): 3-18. 「中华人民共和国的群众性免疫接种:从全民健康到 全球健康」[Mass immunization in the People’s Republic of China: from national to global health]，trans. ... Review of The People's Health: Health Intervention

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Grace Field. PhD student. College: Trinity Hall. Supervisors: Hasok Chang and Jeremy Butterfield. Thesis topic: Building Black Holes: Analogue experiments and analogical reasoning.

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Philipp Spillmann. PhD student. College: Downing College. Supervisor: Tim Lewens and Marta Halina. Thesis topic: Philosophy of Astrobiology. Tentative title: Life in the Shadows: The N =

7 Jun 2024: Postdoctoral Researchers. (People marked with are holders of independent fellowships and are not employed by the University of Cambridge.).

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Ruward Mulder. PhD researcher. College: Trinity. Supervisor: Jeremy Butterfield. Advisor: Hasok Chang. Thesis topic: Towards conceptual clarity about the use of functional realism to

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Dániel Margócsy. Professor in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Email: dm753@cam.ac.uk. Dániel Margócsy studies the social and cultural history of early modern science,

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Teaching Officers. University Assistant Professor. History of medicine and the life sciences since 1800. Professor Anna Alexandrova. Professor in Philosophy of Science. MPhil Manager (HPSM

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Nick Hopwood. Professor of History of Science and Medicine. On research leave till September 2024. Still supervising PhD students. A historian of biological and medical sciences, I am

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Hamed Tabatabaei Ghomi. I am the Sowerby Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Philosophy at King's College of London Department of Philosophy. I finished my PhD in Cambrdige HPS working with

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tom McClelland. Teaching Associate in Philosophy of Science. I recently joined HPS after three years at the Faculty of Philosophy. Before that I held posts at the universities of Warwick,

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Ahmad Elabbar. PhD student. College: St Catharine's. Supervisor: Stephen John and Tim Lewens (advisor). Thesis topic: Justice as an ideal for climate assessment: A study of the

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Affiliates. Emeritus. Dr Robert Anderson: History of chemistry and scientific instruments. Professor German E. Berrios: History of psychopathology and psychiatry. Dr Jeremy Butterfield:

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Liba Taub. Professor Emerita. Director of Research, Whipple Museum of the History of Science. Research interests: History of scientific instruments and the preservation of material

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cristian Larroulet Philippi. PhD student and Junior Research Fellow at Gonville & Caius. College: St Edmund's. Supervisor: Anna Alexandrova and Jacob Stegenga. Research topics:

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Miguel Ohnesorge. College: Darwin. Supervisor: Hasok Chang  Advisor: Richard Staley. Thesis topic: The Problem of the Earth’s Figure: Measurement, Theory, and Evidence in Physical

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Staffan Müller-Wille. Professor in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. I was trained in the sciences (Geology/Palaeontology) and moved into the History and Philosophy of Science

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Zsuzsanna Ihar. Will be starting RCC Landhaus Fellowship in October, 2024. PhD student. College: Churchill. Supervisor: Prof. Helen Anne Curry & Prof. Richard Staley. Thesis topic:

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Professional Services Staff. Ms Morgan Bell. Collections Manager, Whipple Museum. Mr Toby Bryant. Senior Clerical Assistant and Receptionist. Ms Laura Burgazzi. Senior Library Assistant.

7 Jun 2024: My project radically reorients common accounts of the history of science by showing that several scientific debates typically deemed “European” originated in China, emerging through East Asian peoples’ interactions with Jesuit

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Nader El-Bizri. Affiliated Scholar. Professor Nader El-Bizri is an Affiliated Scholar with the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and an

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Obituary: Peter Lipton. Professor Peter Lipton (9 October 1954 – 25 November 2007). Peter Lipton, the first Hans Rausing Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, and

7 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Obituary: John Forrester. Professor John Forrester (25 August 1949 – 24 November 2015). John Forrester, Professor in the Department of History of Philosophy of Science, which he joined