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23 Jul 2024: General histories. There are any number of general histories of the twentieth century. ... Whipple) and the Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Science (Washington) (CSL).

23 Jul 2024: Browse and search Simon Forman's and Richard Napier's records of thousands of consultations. ... Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Study History and Philosophy of Science.

23 Jul 2024: The overlap between the two can throw up all sorts of interesting ideas. ... Attend the first few lectures of those papers between which you are deciding.

23 Jul 2024: Is there any sense to be made of the notion of scientific progress? ... Smith, P. (1981) Realism and the Progress of Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

23 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Early modern astronomy/cosmology. ... Curry, Prophecy and Power: Astrology in Early Modern England, Cambridge 1989; B.

23 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Interdisciplinary Workshops on Reproduction. ... The historical geography of abortion in Lancashire, 1860–1930. 12noon. Helen Statham (CFR).

23 Jul 2024: A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. ... Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Study History and Philosophy of Science.

23 Jul 2024: 11 May. Twenty-Second Annual Hans Rausing Lecture. Lissa Roberts (University of Twente). ... The regular programme of papers and discussions takes place on Thursdays over lunch.

23 Jul 2024: America. The scientists who advanced this 'killer ape' vision of humanity capitalized on an expanding postwar market in intellectual paperbacks and widespread faith in the power of science to solve ... This talk examines how European scholars justified

23 Jul 2024: This involves three core theses. First, science makes theoretical progress primarily when it furnishes us with more predictive power or understanding concerning observable things. ... With the increasing power of new datasets, including genetic data from

23 Jul 2024: The regular programme of papers and discussions takes place on Thursdays over lunch. ... Daniel Cardoso Llach will situate this contemporary condition by offering an intellectual genealogy of twentieth century computational design systems linking postwar

23 Jul 2024: 1983. Information Sources in the History of Science and Medicine. New York: Garland. ... London: Cape. [V.547]. Browne, Janet 2002. Charles Darwin, Volume 2: The Power of Place.

23 Jul 2024: We place the provocation of power at the heart of the book through an investigation of futures as both objects of science and objects of the human imagination, creativity, and will. ... Bringing together emerging perspectives on the future from diverse

23 Jul 2024: Barnes, B. (1988), The Nature of Power, Cambridge: Polity Press. Barnes, B. ... ed.) (1991), A Sociology of Monsters: Essays on Power, Technology and Domination, London: Routledge.

23 Jul 2024: The regular programme of papers and discussions takes place over lunch on Mondays. ... the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and the Faculty of Philosophy.

23 Jul 2024: 16 May. Adam Lucas (University of Wollongong). Slaying the demons with steam: power and productivity in the first Industrial Revolution. ... Our historical work has revealed a number of novel insights into the extent to which waterpower continued to be

23 Jul 2024: The view aims to retain the explanatory power of governing laws while divorcing them from any connections to dodgy metaphysics of properties or time which might not be supported by future ... Second, I investigate how the strength of an explanation –

23 Jul 2024: Mass Vaccination: Citizens' Bodies and State Power in Modern China (Cornell University Press) examines China's public health campaigns of the 1950s. ... Professor Stern also led a workshop on the historical genealogy of the 'gay gene' on the same day.

23 Jul 2024: This scholarship describes a form of technological hubris in which scientists rushed to deploy the quick fix of DDT on the widest possible scale, fuelled by belief in the power of ... maternal intrauterine imprint: interest in the power of maternal

23 Jul 2024: As the United States and Russia increased both the power and the range of their nuclear weaponry, it became possible to conceive of a catastrophic, global-scale war, and the ... While ecologists and military planners were tasked with recognizing the

23 Jul 2024: I shall conclude with reflections on some unique features of the human lineage. ... the value of academic research for state administration, and continued US power over Canadian spaces.

23 Jul 2024: The regular programme of papers and discussions takes place on Thursdays over lunch. ... It was through circulation and reception that photography and phrenology became intertwined with evolutionary thought and colonial power.

23 Jul 2024: Big and Open Data exemplify the newest frontier of empirical research, and scientific success in extracting knowledge from such objects is often hailed as demonstrating the power of (increasingly automated) inductive ... The regular programme of papers

23 Jul 2024: One of the major policy concepts of the twentieth century was 'the environment'. ... I will discuss some of the practical challenges of 'whale-watching in the archives', and I also will share some stories from my archival research to raise questions

23 Jul 2024: 21 January. Zur Shalev (University of Haifa; visiting fellow, Clare Hall, 2015–16). ... Practice-led approaches can re-examine marginalized collections by harnessing the power of objects – both old and new – to captivate and engage.

23 Jul 2024: I show how Bourbaki's advocates parodied the period's norms of identification, exploiting newly important ambiguities and challenging newly reconfigured power structures in mathematicians' postwar disciplinary practice. ... as the objectification of women

23 Jul 2024: Thomas P. Hughes, Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880–1930 (Johns Hopkins, 1983). ... CUP, 1992). Z1068. Mark Walker, German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power, 1939–1949 (CUP, 1989).

23 Jul 2024: flu strains' – is of significance to scientists, historians, and tort and criminal lawyers. ... Using previously neglected archival materials, I will argue, in contrast, for a far more complex response to the new drug, centred on a reconfiguration of

23 Jul 2024: The paper shows that at one level translation reified the power and superiority of western science and language (mostly English) as global and universal categories. ... They all formed part of the over-all concept of an early modern elite setting where

23 Jul 2024: This paper attempts to answer these broader questions while also reflecting on the power of the archive for historical actors whose own prognostications were based on fragments of mediated information from ... His journals oscillate between hubris and

23 Jul 2024: I make two arguments: the first concerns the nature of state power in India after independence; and the second is about the specific configuration of the military-industrial-academic complex in ... Scientific forecasting sought to generate knowledge

23 Jul 2024: In this paper, I introduce a new concept – that of the epistemic bunker. ... The regular programme of papers and discussions takes place over lunch on Mondays.

23 Jul 2024: 29 February. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (MPIWG). Split and splice: a phenomenology of experimentation. ... The characteristic temporal, spatial, and narrative dimensions of these articulations will be traced.

23 Jul 2024: Our counterfactual question is: what sort of data would have closed the debate? ... Power and Identity in Philosophy of Science. The Power and Identity group meets every two weeks on Mondays at 2pm on Teams.

23 Jul 2024: Varieties and power of images in psychiatry and mental health care. ... The regular programme of papers and discussions takes place over lunch on Mondays.

23 Jul 2024: The regular programme of papers and discussions takes place over lunch on Mondays. ... Joanne Green (ljg54). 12 October. Catarina Madruga (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & University of Lisbon).

23 Jul 2024: 28 October. Andrew Buskell (University of Cambridge). Cultural groups, essentialism, and ontic risk. ... 25 November. Kate Vredenburgh (London School of Economics). Causal explanation and revealed preferences.

15 Mar 2024: A good. deal of my research effort was devoted to bringing a BJHS Themes issue on Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy. ... of Power to successful publication, including in particular numerous contributions from scholars from backgrounds in.