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The examiners remarked that this allowed the examinations to act as a better test of students’ abilities to construct well-structured essays than the typical closed-book three-hour exam format. ... While some essays were considered ‘episodic rather

Scientists, on the other hand, validate their constructs and measures using psychometric tests. ... 8 October Jim Moore (Open University). Making livings: the economic worlds of Wallace and Darwin.

This problem, to be sure, is widespread across the sciences. According to the ‘received view’, invariance under intervention provides the crucial test to decide whether X causes Y. ... Meehl, P.E. (1955). Construct Validity in Psychological Tests.

Answers to question 3 were very varied, covering alchemy and the economics ofchemistry, as well as the location and roles of naturalists, natural philosophers and their patrons. ... In question 8 (19 answers) many candidates conflated the two important

This talk will tell the story of laboratory pregnancy testing in Britain before the first DIY tests of the 1970s. ... Understanding how the book is made is vital to the study of its contents, helping to locate its economic and social context, its audience

Computing machinery and intelligence’ ‘The search for intelligent life?’ Turing’s test for acculturation How right was Turing? ... How Turing missed the point about consciousness Is Turing’s imitation game a valid test for intelligence?

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.

Dissertation. Social epistemology meets science policy: a model driven proposal to test science funding strategies (supervised by Shahar Avin and Stephen John). ... Part III Essay and Dissertation Titles. Joe Bonham-Carter. Essays. Otto Neurath's welfare

an egg in a test-tube?  ''Early stages of fertilization in vitro of human oocytes matured in vitro' and the changing face of Nature in. ... 23. Jack Wright Essays Double standards? Why do misrepresentations in economics face stricter criticism than

Is ARCH modelling a telling example of a paradigm? A Kuhnian perspective on financial economics. ... supervised by Marina Frasca-Spada) Can economics be modelled? A consensus undermines a paradox (supervised by Christopher.

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.

machine rights Psychotherapy, autism and the imitation game ‘Stolen thought’ and the Turing test Turing’s smoke screen: why the need for the nine objections? ... supervised by Sarah Hodges) ‘Am I depressed?’: shifting self-reporting tests for

Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis. to the Test’ Andrew Buskell, one of the. ... Between Men and Women’, 1887. Dissertation. Screening for syphilis: how blood syphilis tests.

the Superconducting Super Collider?  Safe science for Catholics: Sir Bertram Windle (1858-1929) on evolution and religion  The Turing Test through time  Anthropology at war: a critique of ... the Coombs test  A time to be born? Induction in

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

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,

the Economic and Social Science Research Council.

by Tony Lawson, Faculty of Economics and Politics) Michael Michael ‘Akrasia: an essay on what it means to act without self-restraint’ (supervised by Peter Lipton) Sadiah Qureshi ‘Living curiosities: human

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

1905 Master Test Circle, cut on the No.1 Dividing Engine of E.R.

in the diagnostic laboratory: the rise and fall of living pregnancy tests in Britain.

A study of Topsell’s The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes (1607) Falsifiability and Intelligent Design Genius sperm and test tube babies Images of Kuhn: five responses to The Structure of

or market- level economics (rather than the financial imperatives of individual scientists). ... Q10. There were few answers to this question, all of which were uniformly weak: students often failed to focus on the concept of rationality as employed in

I thus suggest that as information-seeking was the priority for some of the key actors involved in negotiating a test ban, the striking of an international moratorium was made conditional ... In fact these intelligence activities represented a major

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

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.

A litmus test for the relevant kind of historical sensitivity in relation to this question was awareness of the difference between ‘classical’ genetics and ‘molecular biology’.

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

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

which does not obviously fit well into the categories of ‘belief’ or ‘desire’. There was a considerable amount of tangential material, with trails leading off to the Turing Test, anomalous monism,

They hypothesized about degeneration and endocrinology, tracked venereal disease, set up a special infertility clinic, performed pelvic exams and salpingectomies, and experimented with psychological tests designed to diagnose a desire for

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

Contents The Department. Introduction. 2 Staff and affiliates. 5 Visitors and students. 6 Comings and goings. 7 Roles and responsibilities. 8 Prizes, projects and honours. 10 Seminars and special lectures. 12. Students Student statistics. 14 Part II