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13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Email search. Internal directory. Lookup is the University's internal directory of staff and student email addresses. You can only access this directory if you have a Raven password.

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Information for supervisors. Information for supervisors. Reports and payment. CamCORS (the Cambridge Colleges' Online Reporting System for Supervisions) should be used by everyone

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. Our MPhil (Master of Philosophy) provides students with an unparalleled

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Applying for research grants and post-doctoral fellowships. HPS has internal mechanisms for scrutinising research grant applications that enable us to work quickly and efficiently. All

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Funding for postgraduate students. Some options for obtaining funding are given on this page. See Cambridge Funding Search for details of other awards that are available. We recommend

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Becoming an Affiliate. Process. Submit an application to your sponsor (a member of staff in HPS). The sponsor forwards the application form (if they accept it) to

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. BBS options. Students taking NST Part II Biological and Biomedical Sciences can now choose History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine (HPSM) as their Major Subject. Alternatively, BBS

13 Jul 2024: Instead, he proposes that many great scientific discoveries come from a lack of knowledge, and a desire to investigate and test unlikely hypotheses.

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Research projects. Research projects. Tracing the story of Hugh Cuming's voyage to the Philippines during the 1830s. Examining the complex historical relationship between European

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Epsilon: A Collaborative Digital Framework for Nineteenth-Century Letters of Science. is both a research consortium and a developing, flexible, technical infrastructure for recreating the

13 Jul 2024: From 2016 to 2019 Tim was an investigator on a large, multi-institution project 'Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis to the Test', funded by the John Templeton Foundation.

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. FlyBase: Communicating Drosophila Genetics on Paper and Online, 1970–2000. How do scientific communities come together to produce community resources – such as repositories,

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Student prizes. Willmoth Prize. The Frances Willmoth Prize is awarded each year for the best performance in the dissertation component of the History and Philosophy of Science Part II

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Before HIV: Homosex and Venereal Disease, c.1939–1984. 1 January 2013 to 30 June 2019. Men who have sex with men currently experience a disproportionately high prevalence of sexually

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. MPhil students' guide. MPhil students' guide. These pages contain information and advice for current students on the MPhil course in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. For

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Casebooks Project. A digital edition of Simon Forman's and Richard Napier's medical records, 1596–1634. The Casebooks Project aims to make available the astrological records of

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Plagiarism and academic misconduct. Plagiarism is defined as the unacknowledged use of the work of others as if this were your own original work. A student may be found guilty of an act

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. History of Medicine. History of Medicine. The Department of History and Philosophy of Science is a major centre for research, teaching and public engagement in history of medicine. The

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Timetable 2023–24. Timetable. Timetable by course. Timetable by term. Where do the lectures take place? The venue is shown on the page for each course. Links. Related pages. Department

13 Jul 2024: As holder of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2021–4, I am researching and writing The Many Births of the Test-Tube Baby: Proof and Publicity in Claims to a ... Franklin and Matthew Cottingham, Human Reproduction 25 (2010): 2157–2174.

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Colonial Natures. Colonial Natures. Principal Investigator: Daniel Margocsy. Colonial Natures examines the complex historical relationship between two crucial phenomena that shape

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Directors of Studies. College. Director of Studies for HPS. Christ's College. Churchill College. Clare College. Corpus Christi College. Downing College. Emmanuel College. Fitzwilliam

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Jim Secord. Emeritus Professor. Director, Darwin Correspondence Project. Research interests: Social history of science since 1750; life and earth sciences; history of science communication

13 Jul 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,

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. PhD students' guide. PhD students' guide. These pages contain information and advice for current PhD students in the Department. For information about applying to become a PhD student

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Salim Al-Gailani. University Assistant Professor. Research interests. History of medicine and the life sciences since 1800, especially obstetrics, midwifery and childbirth; public health

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Research guide. Research topics and readings in history and philosophy of science. Writing philosophy – Peter Lipton. How to organise a history essay or dissertation – Sachiko Kusukawa

13 Jul 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

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Richard A. McKay. Affiliated Scholar. External College Lecturer and Director of Studies for HPS at Magdalene College. Research interests: Twentieth century history of medicine and public

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part IB students' guide. Part IB students' guide. These pages contain information for students taking the NST Part IB course in History and Philosophy of Science. For an introduction to

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. John Forrester. John Forrester, Professor in the Department of History of Philosophy of Science, died on 24 November 2015. Obituary: Professor John Forrester (1949–2015). Freud in

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part II students' guide. Part II students' guide. These pages contain information for students taking the NST Part II course in History and Philosophy of Science. For an introduction to

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Peter Jones. College Fellow. Research interests: Medieval medicine and science; image-making in medicine; medical books and the circulation of medical information. Peter Murray Jones is a

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Referencing. When writing essays and dissertations, correct and consistent referencing is an important way to avoid accusations of plagiarism and ensure that people reading your work can

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Marta Halina. University Associate Professor in the Philosophy of Cognitive Science. I am a University Associate Professor in the Philosophy of Cognitive Science. I received my PhD in

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part II timetable. Part II. Course manager: Dániel Margócsy. are held in the first half of Michaelmas Term. Research methods seminars are held in Michaelmas Term. Writing support

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Charu Singh. University Assistant Professor in Non-Western History of the Sciences. I am an Assistant Professor in Non-Western History of the Sciences Before 1900. Trained as a historian

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. BBS Part II timetable. BBS Part II. Options for students taking the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) course in Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos. Part II students' guide: BBS

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Seminars and reading groups. Seminars and reading groups. Seminars and reading groups are open to all members of the University (including academic staff, postdocs, postgraduate and

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Jacob Stegenga. Professor of Philosophy of Science. Jacob Stegenga is a Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He has published

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part III students' guide. Part III students' guide. These pages contain information for students taking the NST Part III course in History and Philosophy of Science. For an introduction

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Complaints. Difficulties can usually be resolved informally. Students who have a complaint about supervision or any other aspect of teaching should do the following:. Speak to your

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Simon Schaffer. Professor of History of Science. Simon Schaffer was trained in natural sciences and history & philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University.

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Peter Lipton. Professor Peter Lipton died suddenly of natural causes on the evening of Sunday 25 November 2007. His funeral was held on 28 November 2007, and a memorial service was held

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Examiners' reports. Introduction to examiners' reports. Please note that all undergraduate submitted work and examination scripts are marked anonymously; in fact all HPS examinations are

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Matt Farr. Associate Teaching Professor in Philosophy of Physics. Matt Farr is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department. Before joining the University of Cambridge, Matt was a

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Advice. Advice. In this section:. Some basic strategies to help demystify the process of writing. Answering an exam question – what to do and what to avoid. Learning strategies and exam

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Jia Yu. PhD student. College: Lucy Cavendish. Supervisor: Mary Brazelton, Jim Secord (advisor). Thesis topic: Early twentieth century periodicals and natural histories in modern China.

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Student representation. Monitoring Committee. The Monitoring Committee is a forum for discussion of matters directly affecting students. The Department finds that obtaining feedback from

13 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Helen Anne Curry. Honorary Senior Research Fellow. I’m the Kranzberg Professor in the History of Technology in the School of History and Sociology at Georgia Tech. I research and teach