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11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Habib Prize. The Habib Prize is awarded each year for the best performance in the essay component of the MPhil course in Health, Medicine and Society. Winners. 2023: Charlotte Wade. 2022:

11 Jul 2024: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, November 2018. with Ryan Nehring, eds. "The History of Crop Science and the Future of Food." Special issue of Plants, People, Planet, in press. ... 2 (December 2019). Recent peer-reviewed publications. 'The

11 Jul 2024: The consumption of sexual-medical knowledge encapsulated in these texts shaped people's experiences of their bodies and sexual being.

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Single-paper options. The Department of History and Philosophy of Science offers several Part IB and Part II papers as single-paper options. Students taking these options are welcome to

11 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

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Lipton Prize. The Peter Lipton Prize was endowed in memory of Professor Peter Lipton, a former Head of Department. It is awarded each year for the best overall performance in the History

11 Jul 2024: I am particularly interested in scientific and technological innovations that emerge from unexpected or marginalised places, and in the interconnectivities that are formed by the movement of technologies, people, knowledge, ideas,

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Supervision norms. Part IB. It is recommended that students have one supervision a week throughout the Part IB course, alternating between history of science (four supervisions per term)

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Theo Di Castri. PhD student. College: King's. Supervisor: Dr. Helen Anne Curry. Thesis Topic: History of prevention science, 1960-present. Research interests: Risk; prevention; history

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Scott Partington. PhD student. College: Queens'. Supervisor: Marta Halina. Thesis topic: The origins and emergence of norms. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Study History

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Key dates and deadlines. Michaelmas Term 2023. 4 October. Meeting for MPhil students at 2pm. 30 October. Submit topic form for Essay 1. 10 November. Last date for changing topic of Essay 1

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Oscar Westerblad. PhD student. College: Queens'. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Thesis topic: Formulating a pragmatist account of scientific understanding. Department of History and Philosophy

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Rausing Prize. The Rausing Prize, endowed by the Rausing family, is awarded annually for the best performance in the dissertation component of the MPhil course in History and Philosophy

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Marina Frasca-Spada. College Fellow. Fellow, Corpus Christi College. Research interests: Hume's Treatise of Human Nature; history of philosophy of science from Descartes to Kant; reading

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Miles Kempton. PhD student. College: Robinson. Supervisor: Nick Hopwood. Thesis topic: London Zoo, Television, and Primate Ethology: From the Launch of ITV to The Naked Ape.

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Whipple Museum. The Whipple Museum of the History of Science is a world-renowned collection of scientific instruments, apparatus and models dating from the Middle Ages to the present day.

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Myesha Jemison. PhD student. College: Trinity. Supervisor: Richard Staley. Advisor: Charu Singh. Thesis topic: Building Credibility: The Story of the Behavioural Dynamics Institute,

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Redhead Prize. The Jennifer Redhead Prize was endowed by Professor Michael Redhead when he retired as Head of the Department. It is awarded each year for the best performance in the essay

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Monte Cairns. PhD student. College: Peterhouse. Supervisor: Stephen John  Advisor: Anna Alexandrova. Thesis topics: Values in science, scientific classification, public health science.

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Arsham Nejad Kourki. PhD student. College: Clare. Supervisor: Tim Lewens. Thesis topic: The origins of organismal complexity: from animals to societies. Department of History and

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. 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 course. Winners.

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Katy Duncan. PhD student. College: Newnham. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Advisor: Simon Schaffer. Thesis: Influence, Instrument and Atmospheric Electricity (1850-1930). Research interests:

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Forrester Prize. The Forrester Prize was endowed in memory of Professor John Forrester, a former Head of Department. It is awarded annually for the best performance in the dissertation

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Seb Falk. College Fellow. Fellow, Girton College. Email: sldf2@cam.ac.uk. Research interests: History of astronomy, late medieval sciences, scientific instruments and history of the book

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Timothy Sim. PhD student. College: Fitzwilliam. Supervisor: Mary Brazelton. Advisor: Helen Curry. Thesis topic: The history of dengue fever in Singapore after 1965. Thesis summary: From

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. McConnell Prize. The Anita McConnell Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding performance on an essay or dissertation that is based on an object in the Whipple Museum's collection.

11 Jul 2024: Realism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist Philosophy of Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022).

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Bronowski Prize. The Jacob Bronowski Prize is awarded each year for the best overall performance in the History and Philosophy of Science Part II course and, from 2018, for the best

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Eoin Carter. PhD student. College: Darwin. Supervisor: Jim Secord. Thesis topic: Radical Politics and Popular Science in Britain, 1815–48. Summary. My research explores the relationship

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Rhianna Elliott. PhD student. PhD research funded by a Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship. College: Newnham. Supervisors: Prof Lauren Kassell; Prof Daniel Margocsy. Advisor: Dr Rebecca

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Timetable for Michaelmas Term 2023. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. 9am. P4: Philosophy of Economics. 10am. Part III & MPhil Discussion Seminar (10.00–11.30). Weeks 1–4:.

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Silvia Maria Marchiori. PhD student. College: Trinity. Supervisor: Dániel Margócsy. Advisor: Lauren Kassell. Thesis topic: The reception of Cornelius Celsus' De medicina from the Middle

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Subject areas. The topics of your essays and dissertation should each fall within the following specified subject areas:. MPhil subject area. Relevant Part II papers. 1. Ancient, medieval

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Anna Alexandrova. Professor in Philosophy of Science. I study how scientists navigate morally charged and complex phenomena and the role of formal tools such as models and indicators in

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Examinations data retention policy. The Board of History and Philosophy of Science has agreed the following data retention policy for University examinations taken in:. Natural Sciences

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Jeremy Schneider. Fellow of Trinity College. PhD, Princeton University. Email: js2897@cam.ac.uk. Jeremy Robin Schneider is a historian of early modern science. He received his PhD from

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Sachiko Kusukawa. College Teaching Officer. Tutor and Fellow in the History and Philosophy of Science, Trinity College. Research interests: History of science, cultural and intellectual

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Progress log. All PhD students must keep a progress log. This should include a record of action plans, meetings with your supervisor and advisor, and attendance at seminars, conferences,

11 Jul 2024: Email address: zc305@cam.ac.uk. Research summary. The Selden Map is a crucial source for understanding the movement of people, goods, and ideas in the early modern South China Sea.

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Benjamin Chin-Yee. PhD student. College: King's. Supervisor: Jacob Stegenga. Advisor: Stephen John. Thesis topic. My thesis focuses on the philosophy of cancer medicine, specifically

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Florence Adams. PhD student. College: Clare. Supervisor: Jacob Stegenga. Advisor: Anna Alexandrova. Thesis topic: Measuring Discrimination. Research areas: Philosophy of social science,

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. PhD Students. Related pages. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Study History and Philosophy of Science. Library and Museum. Research. 2024 University of Cambridge.

11 Jul 2024: Orchids and Dandelions: Categorisation of People in the Research on Differential Plasticity'.

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Andreas Sommer. Research Associate. Research. History of the human sciences and medicine; historiographies of science and the occult; scientific naturalism; William James. I'm interested

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Simon Mitton. College Fellow. Life Fellow, St Edmund's College. Fellow Royal Astronomical Society; Fellow Geological Society of London; Fellow Royal Historical Society. Member

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Olin Moctezuma-Burns. PhD student. College: Pembroke. Supervisor: Lauren Kassell and Staffan Müller-Wille. Thesis topic: Kitchen lists and the construction of botanic knowledge in the

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Adrià Segarra. PhD student. College: St John's. Supervisor: Jacob Stegenga. Advisor: Alexander Bird. Thesis topic: A Hybrid Theory of Induction. Research interests: Induction, Evidence

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Dr. M.A. Diamond-Hunter. Teaching Associate. I am a philosopher of science whose current research programme is concerned with how uses of socially-salient and socially important concepts

11 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Pamela Mackenzie. Postdoctoral Researcher. Dr Pamela Mackenzie is a SSHRC-funded Postdoctoral Researcher and visiting scholar in the History and Philosophy of Science Department, working

11 Jul 2024: How is water even real?', Symposium: Realism for realistic people, A Copenhagen-Cambridge symposium on Hasok Chang’s philosophy of science, University of Copenhagen (2022).