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24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Archive. Archive. Details of the Department's seminars and reading groups in previous terms are available here. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Study History and

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet trip: Natural History Museum. The Cabinet of Natural History visited the Natural History Museum, London, on 30 May 2017. Cabinet members got to see a selection of historical

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet trip to Sutton Hoo. The Cabinet of Natural History visited the Anglo-Saxon burial site of Sutton Hoo in Suffolk on 9 May 2011, led by Claire Wallace of the Whipple Museum. Claire

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Fungus Hunt 2009. Nick Jardine reports on the 2009 Cabinet of Natural History Fungus Hunt, which was held on 26 October. Thanks to Tamara and a minibus, a record number of HPSers explored

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet trip to Down House. The 2005 Cabinet of Natural History expedition, organised with Darwin College, was to Down House, the home of Charles Darwin. The garden has been restored to

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet trip to Stowe. The Cabinet of Natural History visited Stowe Landscape Gardens in Buckinghamshire on 5 May 2010. Photos by Michael Bravo and Allison Ksiazkiewicz. 'Grotesque

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Fungus Hunt 2010. Nick Jardine reports on the 2010 Cabinet of Natural History Fungus Hunt, which was held on 25 October. This was the 22nd of our annual fungus hunts. Eighteen of us

24 Jun 2024: Ongoing reading groups include Calculating People and Values in Science.

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Examining. Each essay and dissertation is read by two senior members or associates of the Department, neither of whom will have supervised the work being marked. Both will submit

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Fungus Hunt 2015. Nick Jardine reports on the 2015 Cabinet of Natural History Fungus Hunt, which was held on 26 October. There was a record turnout for this year's Fungus Hunt: 30 if

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Fungus Hunt 2006. Nick Jardine's report on the Annual Cabinet of Natural History Fungus Hunt, which was held on 23 October 2006. We visited Bradfield Woods where there was a remarkable

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Examining. Exam papers. Each paper will be assessed by a 3-hour online open book examination with a word limit. There will be additional time for students with disabilities who have made

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Lauren Kassell's Inaugural Lecture. Professor Lauren Kassell gave her Inaugural Lecture, 'You, Me and the Moon: Magic, Medicine and the History of Science', on 28 June 2019 at Peterhouse.

24 Jun 2024: Interested students should make preliminary inquiries with potential supervisors (see People).

24 Jun 2024: The current practice allows for payment of a tutor at 'Class' teaching rates only if there is an established regular participation of 6+ people.

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Fungus Hunt 2014. Nick Jardine reports on the 2014 Cabinet of Natural History Fungus Hunt, which was held on 27 October. Photos by Melanie Keene, Natalie Lawrence and Harriet Rix. Our

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Professor Tom Whiteside (1932–2008). Professor Derek Thomas (Tom) Whiteside, FBA, a long-standing member of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, from the early 1960s on,

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Research data management. Research data management is an important topic, and even more so with the enactment of the General Data Protection Regulations 2018 (GPDR). Poor data management

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Fungus Hunt 2016. Nick Jardine reports on the 2016 Cabinet of Natural History Fungus Hunt, which was held in Bradfield Woods on 24 October. Photos by Charissa Varma. This was the 26th HPS

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Dissertation. Students taking Option A write a dissertation on a topic approved by the HPS Board and prepared under the supervision of a teaching officer or postdoctoral researcher. The

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Primary sources. All students taking Part II HPS must write one primary source essay, as a piece of submitted coursework. These sources are supported by seminars (running in weeks 1–4

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part-time PhD. The PhD in History and Philosophy of Science is now offered as a part-time degree. It is normally expected that applicants for the part-time PhD would be employed in a

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Values in Science Reading Group. We meet on Wednesdays from 11am to 12noon in Seminar Room 1. Organised by Ahmad Elabbar and Cristian Larroulet Philippi. Easter Term 2024. Week 1, 1 May.

24 Jun 2024: Before the eighteenth, even the nineteenth century, learned people wrote not of 'reproduction', but of 'generation', a larger, looser framework for discussing procreation and descent.

24 Jun 2024: P. Bourdieu, 'The uses of the people', in his In other words: essays towards a reflexive sociology (1990), 150-55.

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Retirement event: Secord – Taub – Schaffer – Hug. In 2022, the Cambridge HPS Department marks the retirement of several of our esteemed colleagues: Professors Simon Schaffer, James

24 Jun 2024: time. But how reliable are his accounts of his activities and the places, people, and things that he encountered, and what insights can be gained from them? ... over time, his later work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Staff review and development scheme. 1. Purpose of the scheme. The purpose of the Staff Review and Development Scheme (SRD) is to enhance work effectiveness and facilitate career

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Digitising Philippine Flora. is an interdisciplinary collaborative project between the Cambridge University Herbarium and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, with team

24 Jun 2024: People. Principal Investigator: Dr Edwin Rose, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Seven Ages of Nick Jardine. The Department held a special event on 30 June 2010 to celebrate the work of Professor Nick Jardine. Sessions held at Peterhouse focused on six areas of

24 Jun 2024: Listen to what people say, then make up your own mind about what you are going to do. ... Generally aim to make life pleasant for the people marking your paper; they may reward your efforts!

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Supervising MPhil and Part III students. In HPS the MPhil and Part III Course Managers act as the principal supervisors for all that year's cohort of students and are responsible for

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Book launch and garden party. The Department celebrated the launch of Nick Hopwood's book Haeckel's Embryos: Images, Evolution and Fraud on 19 June 2015. A talk by Dr Hopwood was followed

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Operation of the HPS plagiarism policy. Much emphasis in University policy is placed on raising student awareness of what constitutes plagiarism rather than dealing with the consequences

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. CamPoS. CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) is a network of academics and students working in the philosophy of science in various parts of the University of Cambridge, including the

24 Jun 2024: to situations where people ignore the most obvious questions simply because they are operating within a conceptual framework that directs attention only in certain ways'.

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Histories of Biodiversity and Agriculture. Endangered Maize: Indigenous Corn, Industrial Agriculture and the Spectre of Extinction. July 2017–July 2020. This three-year project,

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The history of the book. Adrian Johns. General texts. The best-known anglophonic treatment of the effects of printing is E.L. Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change:

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Language Groups. Language Groups. German Therapy. German Therapy is an informal reading group, and all levels are welcome. This is an opportunity, among other things, to understand how

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Varieties of Social Knowledge. Varieties of Social Knowledge pulls together recent trends in social sciences to revisit classic epistemological questions such as whether knowledge of the

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet trip to Stowe. Photos from the Cabinet of Natural History field trip to Stowe Landscape Gardens, including the Temple of British Worthies and a bust of Isaac Newton, 14 May 2008.

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Examination advice. Peter Lipton. Show that you know the material by using it as a tool for your own arguments. A well-rehearsed production. Don't think of a paper as something that tests

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Oral history. Michael Bravo and Sophia Davis. Written texts tend to deal with limited types of issues, and tend to be available only from limited social groups. If your historical

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet trip to Orford Ness. Photos from the Cabinet of Natural History field trip to Orford Ness, 21 October 2008. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Study History and

24 Jun 2024: The Production, Taxation, Distribution and Consumption of Food and Drink; their Use and Abuse in all Times and Among all Peoples.

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Teaching Global HPSTM. Following an idea that grew out of the 'Decolonise HPS' reading group that met at the Department from 2019 to 2023, 'Teaching Global HPSTM' will consist of a series

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet Garden Party 2017. The 2017 Cabinet of Natural History Garden Party was held on Friday 16 June in the garden at Finella, part of Gonville and Caius College. Sujit Sivasundaram

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet Garden Party 2013. The Cabinet of Natural History's end-of-year garden party for 2012–13 was held in Gonville and Caius College Fellows' Garden on 14 June. The event included a

24 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet Garden Party 2011. The Cabinet of Natural History's end-of-year garden party for 2010–11 was held at Christ's College on 10 June. The event included a talk by Vanessa Heggie: