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1 Jul 2024: Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of Social Science. Philosophy of Economics. Methodology of Economics. ... History of Economic Thought. Contact Details. Email address:. Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

1 Jul 2024: Lectures. Philosophy of Economics. Anna Alexandrova, Cristian Larroulet Philippi (8 lectures, Michaelmas Term). ... The guiding question of this course is what sort of science is economics?

1 Jul 2024: The course explores the historical, philosophical and social dimensions of the sciences, the ways in which the sciences are shaped by other aspects of social and economic life, and the role

1 Jul 2024: Economic and Social Research Council: Research Ethics. ... Under the Data Protection Act 1998 there were eight principles, but two of these (about the rights of data subjects and transfers of personal data outside the European Economic Area) are

1 Jul 2024: Yet it is also a story of radical changes to social organizations and economic exchange.

1 Jul 2024: economic relations of science.

29 Nov 2022: Ciarán Mulqueen. Economics and the entanglement of facts and values: against two conceptions of value-neutrality. ... Dissertation. Do cyborgs dream of customer fulfilment? Logistics and economics at RAND, 1946–1960.

1 Jul 2024: Buyer Beware: Robustness Analyses in Economics and Biology', with Jay Odenbaugh, Biology and Philosophy 26 (2011): 757–771. ... It's Just a Feeling: Why Economic Models Do Not Explain" (with Robert Northcott) in The Journal of Economic Methodology.

1 Jul 2024: The course explores the historical, philosophical and social dimensions of the sciences, the ways in which the sciences are shaped by other aspects of social and economic life, and the roles ... Themes running throughout the lectures include the ways in

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

1 Jul 2024: Value. All goods and services should be purchased in the most economic quantity and to the required quality within the necessary delivery period and at the lowest price and with the

1 Jul 2024: Clarke, Christopher (2016). 'Preferences and Positivist Methodology in Economics.' Philosophy of Science 83 (2): 192–212.

1 Jul 2024: Primarily using the work of A.E.S Alcock and Rockefeller's International Basic Economic Corporation (IBEC), this paper traces how different actors found and invented the global village, populating it ... This has also involved questioning some of the

1 Jul 2024: Thesis: Pluralism and social epistemology in economics.

1 Jul 2024: For example, the linguistic role that is played by a computer that passes the Turing Test is the same role as the linguistic behaviour of a human being. ... Thought experiments. History of Medieval Islamic mathematics. Economic feasibility of nuclear

1 Jul 2024: to introduce students to the processes through which medicine was transformed into a major object of economic, political and ethical concern; and. ... Though our medicine had in its essential features been made by World War I, only in the 20th century

15 Mar 2024: September. Some other things. I was on research leave as holder of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for The Many Births of the Test-Tube Baby. ... Could the multiverse exist and if it could, could we test the theories we outline?

1 Jul 2024: Joseph Berkovitz, University of Toronto. Jonathan Birch, London School of Economics.

1 Jul 2024: As sericulture gained popularity, various political, economic, and scientific interests converged as experts, bureaucrats, and industry leaders confronted a need to organize a multiplying number of cocoon-spinners strains. ... peoples. As a destination

1 Jul 2024: HPS Part IB HPS2: Philosophy of Science. HPS Part II Paper 4: Philosophy of Economics.

1 Jul 2024: P4: Philosophy of Economics. 10am.

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.

1 Jul 2024: The toad is slow to let you know'. October 2016. As Parliament debates the hormonal pregnancy test Primodos and its alleged links to birth defects, at the H-Word blog Jesse

1 Jul 2024: of Economics and Political Science, where I was a Faculty Mentor for the local chapter of Minorities and Philosophy. ... and my MSc in Philosophy of the Social Sciences at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

1 Jul 2024: This entanglement of scholarly and economic interests is particularly visible in Gomes' concern about the plant's increasing rarity. ... Additional reading: Karni, Edi, and Marie-Louise Vierø. (2013). '"Reverse Bayesianism": A Choice-Based Theory of

1 Jul 2024: In the 20th century, biomedicine built upon this legacy to become a major object of economic, political and ethical concern. ... Though our medicine had in its essential features been made by World War I, only in the 20th century did it become a major

24 Jul 2023: 4. Must economics be a deductive science? 5. Which value judgments help economics and which harm it? ... 10. What evidence is needed to test the effectiveness of a medical intervention?

1 Jul 2024: We examine the entwined social, physical, and economic timescales of climate change over the entire period it took to remake climate, and to recognise that we are changing it. ... The Economic Explanation', in Paolo Heywood and Matei Candea, eds. Beyond

1 Jul 2024: We test the hypothesis that this kind of physics was specifically born as a science of the global environment, forging a connexion between models of planetary environments and of patterns of ... Similar aims are pursued more technically within current

1 Jul 2024: varying degrees by inductive inferences, and medical research is developed in a complex political and economic nexus.

1 Jul 2024: As sericulture gained popularity, various political, economic, and scientific interests converged as experts, bureaucrats, and industry leaders confronted a need to organize a multiplying number of cocoon-spinners strains. ... This has also involved

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.

1 Jul 2024: Efficiency, Responsibility and Disability: Philosophical Lessons from the Savings Argument for Pre-Natal Diagnosis', Politics, Philosophy and Economics 14 (2015): 3–22.

1 Jul 2024: Changing forms of climate knowledge thus depend on the kinds of potencies attributed to different kinds of social, economic and physical forces. ... Previous historians have rarely attempted to approach these relations over the full period through which

1 Jul 2024: The politics of imperialism and of technological and economic transformations of modernity through the development of industrial capital were crucial for working institutions and practical conduct of physical sciences worldwide. ... Science and

24 Jul 2023: 3. The ‘health of the nation’ has economic and military significance; evaluate the. ... 8. Is human genetic testing eugenics in disguise? 9. Eligibility tests for women’s sports have been called ‘sex tests’, ‘gender tests’.

1 Jul 2024: MIT and Stanford, for instance, cultivated a cosy relationship with both industry and government, at times steering their research towards economic and military interests. ... 9 May. Liam Kofi Bright (London School of Economics). Du Bois' plan for

1 Jul 2024: Lauren Kassell holds a BA in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Haverford College; an MSc in Economic and Social History, University of Oxford; and a DPhil in History from the University

1 Jul 2024: The course explores the historical, philosophical and social dimensions of the sciences, the ways in which the sciences are shaped by other aspects of social and economic life, and the roles

1 Jul 2024: We especially welcome contributions that contextualize CGIAR centers within the political, economic, social, and environmental histories and historiographies of the host locations.

1 Jul 2024: J. Hernández-Orallo (2020), 'Twenty years beyond the Turing test: Moving beyond the human judges too'. ... We explore economic botany and zoology as an important strand of nineteenth-century natural history relying on systematic surveys of national and

1 Jul 2024: 2020 – 'What is Unavailable Evidence?', presentation at the virtual conference 'Lakatos' Undone Work', London School of Economics. ... HPS Part II Paper 4: Philosophy of Economics. Prior Education . 2020 – London School of Economics: M.Sc.

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

5 Apr 2021: ELKAN, E.R. (1938). The Xenopus pregnancy test. Br. Med. J. 2: 1253-1256. ... Africa 22: pt. 2, xvii-xviii. HOGBEN, L. (1939). Xenopus test for pregnancy.

1 Jul 2024: varying degrees by inductive inferences, and medical research is developed in a complex political and economic nexus.

1 Jul 2024: Talks. 2022–2023. 'Distributive epistemic justice and climate economics in the IPCC', invited (forthcoming) talk at the RIVET Project Workshop, Lund University . ... A policy-neutral allocation of emissions? The scientist as policy maker in the

1 Jul 2024: Neil and Winship (2019) correctly point out that the use of such tests is threatened by the phenomenon of Simpson's paradox. ... Simpson's paradox reveals that the statistics employed in benchmark tests will not, in general, be invariant to updating on

1 Jul 2024: Demographers debate the contribution of economic prosperity, female education, employment and other factors that may influence people's decisions about having children. ... population and the tensions caused by regional fertility differences on the EU's

1 Jul 2024: McClurg, 1903). In 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois published a remarkable book that furthered nearly a decade of research and advocacy in history, economics and sociology but that in intent ... It will raise questions about activism and academic work, the relations

1 Jul 2024: Inventing Temperature', Lakatos Award Lecture, at the London School of Economics, 18 April 2007.