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Morgan, 2012, New York: Cambridge University Press), where we will find a history of modelling practices in economics. ... 24 January Reiss, chap. 2 – Methodology and Expert Judgement in Evidence-Based Economics: Lessons from the CPI Controversy.

The very best candidates excelled by distinguishing different ways in which philosophy might have “lessons” for scientific practice. ... Q10. There were few answers to this question, all of which were uniformly weak: students often failed to focus on

23 May Eighteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College Crosbie Smith (University of Kent) Coal, steam and ships: economic historians versus historians of technology? ... 16 May Keith Breckenridge (Wits Institute for

Lecture Theatre, Trinity College on the subject “Coal, steam and ships: Economic historians versus historians of technology?”. ... Should they? Disputes between conventional normative economics and ‘happiness economics’ (around well-being vs.

Empire, 1860-1900 22 November A Flamsteed Celebration (from 3.30pm) 29 November Nancy Cartwright (London School of Economics) How not to get causes from probabilities. ... Lubar, ‘Learning from Technological Things’, and J. Corn, ‘Object.

Finally, the claim that for a condition to be pathological it must be potentially medically treatable is needed to distinguish disorders from other types of misfortune, for example economic problems and ... 15 March Patricia Soley Beltran (University

Understanding how the book is made is vital to the study of its contents, helping to locate its economic and social context, its audience, and ultimately its historical significance. ... 21 October Hasok Chang, ‘Operationalism: Old Lessons and New

Laws of nature in biology Lessons from Kuhn Mental illness and motherhood Nanotechnology, government policy and the call for public participation New planets – models of scientific discovery Nutrition in Britain during ... by Tony Lawson, Faculty of

Lessons about intellectual property rights in the developing world from the Novartis v. ... Is ARCH modelling a telling example of a paradigm? A Kuhnian perspective on financial economics.

Contents THE DEPARTMENT. Introduction. 2. Staff and Affiliates. 3. Visitors and Students. 4. Comings and Goings. 5. Roles and Responsibilities. 6. Prizes, Projects and Honours. 7. Seminars and Special Lectures. 8. STUDENTS Student Statistics. 10.

Reperta? Boas, The Mind of Primitive Man. The Mind of Primitive Man and the lessons of. ... social discount rate? The place for ethical. judgement in economics. Dr Martha Annie Whiteley: both an exceptional.

Part III Essay and Dissertation Titles. Joe Bonham-Carter. Essays. Otto Neurath's welfare economics (supervised by Anna Alexandrova).

pluralistic and disunified science?  Responses from relativism to Cartwright  Epistemological lessons from The Disorder of Things. ... 23. Jack Wright Essays Double standards? Why do misrepresentations in economics face stricter criticism than

ERC Economics in the Public Sphere: USA, UK, France, Poland and Brazil since 1945. ... scientific discovery (supervised by Hasok Chang) William Peden Essays How does economic history progress?

the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration Domestic science: making school meals and cookery lessons into scientific subjects Governmentality, power and the state in the 1904 Report How ... Melanie Keene ‘Object lessons:

Rickets: a new disease in seventeenth-century England? Using the London Bills of Mortality 1593-1664, is there a relationship between parochial death rates and economic. ... Submitted Catherine Eagleton ‘Instruments in context: telling the time in

instrument and object in postwar US. philosophy and economics. Measurement and value in Restoration credit. ... Commerce'. Natural analogy in English economic thought,. 1622–1672. Dissertation: Metallurgy, agronomy and.

the Economic and Social Science Research Council.

Contents THE DEPARTMENT. Introduction. 2 Staff and Affiliates. 3 Visitors and Students. 4 Comings and Goings. 5 Roles and Responsibilities. 6 Prizes, Projects and Honours. 7 Seminars and Special Lectures. 8. STUDENTS. Student Statistics. 10 Part II

Deterioration? What were the measures suggested by the Committee for cookery lessons and why might they have been chosen? ... Schaffer) Melanie Keene ‘Object lessons: sensory science education, 1830-1870’ (supervised by Jim Secord) Elselijn Kingma

The second of these projects will be managed by Tiago Mata, who will be exploring ‘Economics in the Public Sphere: USA, UK, France, Poland and Brazil since 1945’ looking at how ... European Research Council: Economics in the Public Sphere: USA, UK,

Sorin Bangu) Dissertation The memetic gambit: lessons from chess for conceptual evolution (supervised by Tim.

19. MPhil and Part III Essay and Dissertation Titles MPhil Essays Callum Agnew Essays Genesis of an economic fact: the making of the World Top Incomes Database (supervised by Tiago Mata) ... rise of supply-side economics, 1972-1982 (supervised by Tiago

Contents The Department. Introduction. 2 Staff and affiliates. 3 Visitors and students. 4 Comings and goings. 5 Roles and responsibilities. 6 Prizes, projects and honours. 8 Seminars and special lectures. 9. Students Student statistics. 10 Part II

Contents The Department. Introduction. 2 Staff and affiliates. 3 Visitors and students. 4 Comings and goings. 5 Roles and responsibilities. 6 Prizes and projects. 8 Seminars and special lectures. 9. Students Student statistics. 10 Part II primary

Further information is available from David Chart. 10 October Lessons 1 & 2 (pp. ... 50–68) 31 October Lessons 9 & 10 (pp. 68–82). 7 November Lesson 11 (pp.

practical lessons that teach them how to search literature using databases like the university library catalogue, obviously, but also WorldCat.

25 February Donald Gillies (UCL) Lessons from the history and philosophy of science for research assessment systems. ... 5. 25 February Donald Gillies (UCL) Lessons from the history and philosophy of science for research assessment systems.

While some essays were considered ‘episodic rather than synthetic’ by examiners, stronger essays offered interesting distinctions between military, economic and moral functions of natural sciences, with students prompted to reflect on

Warfare states, technology and science in the twentieth century. 29 May Matteo Mamelli (London School of Economics) Rethinking heredity. ... 29 May Matteo Mamelli (London School of Economics) Rethinking heredity. Fifty years ago, in Cambridge, Watson and

11 November Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila (Helsinki School of Economics) The relevance of Aristotle’s dialectic to his scientific method. ... 11 November Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila (Helsinki School of Economics). The relevance of Aristotle’s

The history of disease is a multifaceted enterprise in which social, cultural, demographic, economic and sociological approaches have played a dominant role in recent decades. ... would enable the individual to resist the depersonalizing action of the

18 November Donald Gillies (UCL) Lessons from the history and philosophy of science for research assessment systems. ... 18 November Donald Gillies (UCL). Lessons from the history and philosophy of science for research assessment systems.

Budgen], Episodes of Insect Life (1849), vol. I, chapter 9. ‘A Lesson of Faith’ and ‘Knowledge not the Limit of Belief’, Margaret Gatty, Parables From.

29 October John Worrall (London School of Economics) A philosopher of science looks at medicine: do we ‘need some large, simple randomized trials’?

8 October Jim Moore (Open University). Making livings: the economic worlds of Wallace and Darwin. ... 20 November Simon Chaplin (Wellcome Library) and Christelle Rabier (London School of Economics) Curing things.

topic was the most important lesson. In general, those that were more effective were those that highlighted specific aspects of scientific practice;

This is presumably due to politics of display or economic constraints; but it is also related to the use of objects. ... 18 February Christian List (London School of Economics and Political Science) Emergent chance (jointly authored with Marcus Pivato).

preservation enabled invisible instruments of economic utility to become visible objects of curiosity and, ultimately, politics; and how enslaved African agency both made and contested knowledge in the Atlantic world.

This may be an important way in which IB students have generally not been able to make methodological lessons their own even if they are expressed clearly in lecture.  Meanwhile,

3. 9. In what ways was eighteenth-century natural history an economic practice? ... 1. 9. To what extent did the social and economic status of medieval and early modern patients determine how and where they were treated?

historians might revise the understandings of a saltation in twentieth-century political and economic history.

Q11 on how anthropologists challenged understandings of “universal economic man” was particularly popular, and received some excellent answers, indicating that students like questions that allow them to develop some critical edge.

All welcome. Organised by Alex Broadbent. 19 January The View from Nowhen; and ‘More Apt to Be Lost than Got’: The Lessons of the.

Organised by Michael Bycroft and Minwoo Seo. 27 April Josh Nall introduces Michael Polanyi Michael Polanyi, ‘The Rights and Duties of Science’, Manchester School of Economic and.

I will argue that recent work claiming to identify change in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century notions of generation, and to tie this to very specific social and economic changes, overlooks the

in poetry; some even in economic thought. ... Understanding the book as a physical object is a vital complement to the study of its contents, helping to locate its economic and social context, its audience, and ultimately its historical

Literature and Science 1700-1830 A series of six lectures and classes on Mondays at 10am in the Meade Room, Faculty of Economics, Sidgwick Avenue.

27 February Caroline Cornish (Royal Holloway) Curating science in an age of empire: the Kew Museums of Economic Botany.

19 October Anna Alexandrova: Buyer beware: robustness analyses in theoretical economics 2 November Mark Colyvan: The ins and outs of mathematical explanation 16 November Emily Thomas: The equivocation objection to priority