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27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet Garden Party 2005. The 2005 Cabinet of Natural History Garden Party was held on Monday 13 June in King's College Fellows' Garden and featured a talk by Melanie Keene, 'An object

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet Garden Party 2003. The 2003 Cabinet of Natural History Garden Party was held in King's College Fellows' Garden on 9 June. The event featured a talk by Sujit Sivasundaram on the

27 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

27 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:

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet Garden Party 2001. The 2001 Cabinet of Natural History Garden Party took place in the Fellows' Garden at King's College. HPS graduate student Helen Macdonald gave a talk on the

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet Garden Party 2015. The Cabinet of Natural History held its annual garden party on 12 June 2015. Special thanks to Natalie Lawrence for her splendid talk on 'The Prime Minister and

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of physics. Jeremy Butterfield. The best place to start is with Cushing, J. [1998], Philosophical Concepts in Physics, Cambridge: CUP. But Sklar, L., [1992], Philosophy of

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Pragmatism Reading Group. The Pragmatism Reading Group is held on Mondays at 11am–12noon in the Board Room and on Zoom. Organisers: Niall Roe (nrr32), Damon Kutzin (dtk23), Ruward

27 Jun 2024: Your sources may tell you that when travellers landed on shore with scientific instruments, they were seen by the local people to be devil worshippers, out to cast spells on them. ... Europe. Regardless of the route, you will have to assess why it is

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. A typical day for an MPhil student. What might a typical day look like for an HPS student? This page will hopefully give you some idea of your daily academic life as an MPhil student.

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Essays and dissertation. MPhil students are required to submit two essays and a dissertation. Each of them must be on a topic approved by the Degree Committee that falls within one of the

27 Jun 2024: The Department's Harassment Officer and College Tutors can also intervene in such cases, and students have every right to appeal to these people for help.

27 Jun 2024: For the final weeks, we hope to have people read papers taking different sides of a single debate, hopefully leading to a rich discussion.

27 Jun 2024: Most people have a better ear than eye, and if it sounds good it will usually read well.

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Social epistemology. Martin Kusch. Social epistemology is the philosophical study of the relevance of communities to knowledge. Social epistemology can be done descriptively or

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. HPS Workshop. Fridays, 5–6pm in the Board Room. Organised by by Niall Roe (nrr32). The HPS Workshop seeks to break the isolation of postgraduate research and encourage collaborative

27 Jun 2024: Chapter 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Counterfactual theories. People have known there is a relation between counterfactuals and causation for a long time but counterfactual theories really took off with David ... However several people have

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Academic skills and career development. Researching in museums. Friday 6 October 2023, 1–2pm, Whipple Museum. Joshua Nall. Why is there a museum inside the HPS Department? And how can

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tamara Hug's retirement. Dear Students, Staff, and Friends of Cambridge HPS Past and Present,. I wanted to let everyone in the HPS community know that Tamara Hug, our much-loved

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Coffee with Scientists. The aim of this group is to explore and enhance the interface between HPS and science. Although many of us in HPS engage closely with scientists and their practices

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Essays and dissertation. Part III students are required to submit four essays and a dissertation, as follows:. Two Research Papers, each of not more than 5,000 words, on topics chosen in

27 Jun 2024: peoples. As a destination that consistently attracted migrants, traders, entrepreneurs and aspiring colonizers, its characteristic forms of technological dynamism served the political, social, and economic ambitions of peoples from China to

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Atmospheric Humanities Reading Group. The Atmospheric Humanities Reading Group meets once a fortnight, on Tuesdays in the Board Room, to explore aspects of the air, climate, and

27 Jun 2024: Relevant course managers can also direct students to a variety of people in the HPS Department and beyond with expertise in studying material culture.

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Simon Schaffer wins the 2018 Dan David Prize. The Dan David Prize, a major international prize for lifetime intellectual achievement and innovation, is awarded annually in the three

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Other events and resources. Jobseekers' coffee. Organised by Kim Alexander and Phillip Kieval. PhD students, postdocs and early career scholars in HPS and Philosophy are invited to attend

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cambridge Reading Group on Reproduction. invites all Cambridge researchers to attend a twice-termly reading group to engage with classics and new work across disciplines – all with a

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Scientific manuscripts. Paul White. The use of manuscripts in historical research presents special challenges and also unique advantages. Such materials are often more difficult to access

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. History of Science and Medicine in Southeast Asia Reading Group. This reading group offers an opportunity for anyone interested in the history of science and medicine in Southeast Asia,

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. History of Medicine: past events. Public lectures. Recipes to Improve Your Love Life: Advice from the Eighteenth Century. Lisa Smith (University of Essex), 31 March 2016. After IVF: The

27 Jun 2024: This is a list of people who are willing to supervise Part II dissertations, Part III essays and dissertations, and MPhil essays and dissertations, together with the topics they are prepared ... Dissertations previously supervised by Jacob Stegenga. 'The

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Foundations of Physics Reading Group. For physicists, philosophers and all other intellectuals: in this weekly reading group we look at state-of-the-art articles in the foundations of

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Ethics in science and medicine. Paul Miller. Reference. W Reich, ed., Encyclopedia of Bioethics. R Chadwick, ed., Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics. Books. Bioethics. General/introductory. P

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Anthropocene. The Anthropocene (Climate Histories) offers alternating sessions in the related fields of climate history and Anthropocene studies. Meetings will involve a mix of

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Induction sessions. Induction session for HMS MPhil students. Wednesday 4 October 2023, 10–11am, Seminar Room 1. Philippa Carter (HMS MPhil Manager) and Isla Monk (HMS MPhil

27 Jun 2024: Social History of Medicine. February 2020. The new issue of Social History of Medicine contains two contributions from HPS people: a values statement for the Society for the Social History of ... How did China manage to inoculate almost six hundred

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Early modern medicine. Lauren Kassell. This article was last updated in 1999. Please note that it does not reflect the latest contributions to the field nor digital tools or materials.

27 Jun 2024: Yet for all the overlap and interaction – people sometimes speak of history of STM (science, technology and medicine) – important traditions in history of medicine are very different, and have taken importantly

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Postgraduate Seminars. Postgraduate Seminars. The Postgraduate Seminars offer a sustained and systematic introduction to specific cutting-edge areas of research, led by leading experts in

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of biology. Tim Lewens. The literature on the philosophy of biology is enormous; what follows only scratches the surface. Here I have restricted myself mainly to evolutionary

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Publications. Each book in the Cabinet of Natural History's Garden Party Talks series contains several papers based on talks given at the Cabinet's annual garden party, as well as records

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Ancient Egyptian science. Annette Imhausen. Ancient Egypt is one of the earliest civilizations to have left written, pictorial, and archaeological records of its culture, including

27 Jun 2024: Sounds obvious, but some people like to keep their favourite arguments even in the face of useful criticism. ... required. Finally. If you encounter any problems, let people know right away, particularly your DoS.

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Rationale. There are two ways over the last two centuries that people have made climate: through practices of industrialisation and land exploitation ... Critically we also engage a much wider

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Library resources in the history and philosophy of science. The aim of this guide is to show how to find out about library resources that are available in a particular subject area, and

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Gender and science. Leon Rocha. This expands considerably Paula Gould's 'Gender and Science' section, which previously appeared in the HPS Research Guide. denotes particularly important

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. 20th-century life sciences. Soraya de Chadarevian. This guide focuses on genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology. It is not complete: cross-check with the bibliographies on

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Debating Reproduction: IVF. Thursday 20 October 2011. 5pm – 6.30pm. Cambridge University Library, West Road. In association with the Books and Babies exhibition at Cambridge University

27 Jun 2024: Another work that many people like is:. Torretti, R. 1978: Philosophy of Geometry from Riemann to Poincaré, Dordrecht, Reidel. ... Asking these questions around 1900 took people into a vigorous debate between Kantians and Leibnizians.

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. History of medieval science. Rosamond McKitterick. If you want to work on the history of medieval science you need to think about whether you will want, firstly, to work specifically on