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17 May 2024: local identity but also creating a political genealogy that linked the pre-Columbian world to Spanish imperial power.

17 May 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,

1 Apr 2020: With their similarity to family trees, I call this second kind of story a “genealogy of blame”.

17 May 2024: For example, in a performing arts event in the Netherlands that engages families’ complex intergenerational, interracial genealogies, aspirations to make visible past injustices are challenged by the artists’ family’s embeddedness

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Making Climate History. Making Climate History. Two centuries after the emergence of steam technologies and 170 years after initial suggestions that the atmosphere keeps Earth warm,

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Miles Kempton. PhD student. College: Robinson. Supervisor: Nick Hopwood. Thesis topic: London Zoo, Television, and Primate Ethology: From the Launch of ITV to The Naked Ape.

17 May 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

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Myesha Jemison. PhD student. College: Trinity. Supervisor: Richard Staley. Advisor: Charu Singh. Thesis topic: Building Credibility: The Story of the Behavioural Dynamics Institute,

17 May 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

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of Science in Cambridge. Philosophy of Science. Cambridge has a long tradition of seminal work in the philosophy of science, stretching back as far as William Whewell in the

17 May 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

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Nuno Miguel Oliveira. PhD student. College: Christ's. Supervisor: Nick Hopwood. Thesis topic: Luminous Cold War: military patronage as a forgotten driver of bioluminescence science.

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Past exam papers. Past exam papers from Part IB, Part II and Part III are available here as PDF files. Part IB papers. Part II HPS papers. Part II BBS papers. 2022–. Major Subject in

17 May 2024: Women’s Voices and Genealogies in Literary Studies in English. Cambridge Scholars, pp.

17 May 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

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Zsuzsanna Ihar. PhD student. College: Churchill. Supervisor: Prof. Helen Anne Curry & Prof. Richard Staley. Thesis topic: Knowledge making practices and scientific expertise in

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Theo Di Castri. PhD student. College: King's. Supervisor: Dr. Helen Anne Curry. Thesis Topic: History of prevention science, 1960-present. Research interests: Risk; prevention; history

17 May 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.

17 May 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

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part IB. The Part IB course in History and Philosophy of Science offers a wide-ranging overview of the nature of science and its place in society. The course explores the historical,

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Single-paper options. The Department of History and Philosophy of Science offers several Part IB and Part II papers as single-paper options. Students taking these options are welcome to

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Computing information. IT facilities in and around the Department. Whipple Library. There are eight PCs in the Whipple Library, including three with full access to Microsoft Office

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Welfare. The information and links on this page have been gathered together to provide staff and students with a one-stop-shop for all matters concerned with welfare. On this page you

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. generation.jpeg. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Study History and Philosophy of Science. Library and Museum. Research. 2024 University of Cambridge.

17 May 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

17 May 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

17 May 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,

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Timetable for Lent Term 2024. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. 9am. 10am. Part III & MPhil Discussion Seminar (10.00–11.30). Part III & MPhil Discussion Seminar

17 May 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

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Lecturing buddies scheme. If you give lectures in the Department you should participate in the lecturing buddies scheme. Find a buddy as soon as possible and let Jane Clare

17 May 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

17 May 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

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Fieldwork, working away, risk assessment and insurance. Many postgraduate students will want to carry out some fieldwork at some point which will involve undertaking an essential piece of

17 May 2024: Search site. Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power. Susie Gates.

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Vesalius Census. The Vesalius Census provides a world-wide descriptive census of the first major illustrated atlas of anatomy. We are documenting every known surviving copy of the

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Oscar Westerblad. PhD student. College: Queens'. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Thesis topic: Formulating a pragmatist account of scientific understanding. Department of History and Philosophy

17 May 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

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Timetable for Easter Term 2024. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. 9am. 10am. 11am. 12noon. 1pm. 2pm. 3pm. 4pm. 5pm. Weeks 1–3:. IB: Philosophy of Biology. Week 4:. IB:

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Frequently asked questions. On this page:. Applying. When should I apply? We will accept applications from 3 September 2024 for admission in October 2025. The deadline for applications is

17 May 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

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Lost Museums of Cambridge Science, 1865–1936. 1 March 2016 to 31 August 2019. This Leverhulme and Newton Trust funded project examines the practices of collecting, display and

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Bronowski Prize. The Jacob Bronowski Prize is awarded each year for the best overall performance in the History and Philosophy of Science Part II course and, from 2018, for the best

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Working with human participants: ethical approval and data protection. If you are planning to collect data from human participants (for example, by conducting interviews or administering

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Marabel Riesmeier. PhD student. College: King's. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Advisor: Anna Alexandrova. Thesis topic: How chemicals matter: the ontology of chemical substance. Research

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part III. The Department's Part III course is conducted by means of supervisions and seminars. Students are also encouraged to attend some of the wide range of relevant lectures offered

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Arsham Nejad Kourki. PhD student. College: Clare. Supervisor: Tim Lewens. Thesis topic: The origins of organismal complexity: from animals to societies. Department of History and

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. On the origins of Cambridge HPS: A 50th anniversary reflection. Joshua Nall, August 2022. On 1 August 1972, the University of Cambridge welcomed a new department: History and Philosophy

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. How to find the Department. The Department of History and Philosophy of Science is on Free School Lane. This is in the centre of Cambridge, between Pembroke Street and Bene't Street. The

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Key dates and deadlines. Michaelmas Term 2023. 4 October. Meeting for MPhil students at 2pm. 30 October. Submit topic form for Essay 1. 10 November. Last date for changing topic of Essay 1

17 May 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Olesya Bondarenko. PhD student. College: St John's. Supervisors: Tim Lewens, Anna Alexandrova. Thesis: Tempering the Ambition of Social Science Genomics: Causation, Explanation, and