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8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Frequently asked questions. When can I study History and Philosophy of Science? Natural Sciences Tripos: You can choose HPS as one of your three Part IB subjects and then as your

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Privacy and cookie policies. Privacy. When you visit any of the websites within the University of Cambridge domain we collect certain information about you for service and security reasons

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part III students' guide. Part III students' guide. These pages contain information for students taking the NST Part III course in History and Philosophy of Science. For an introduction

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Chia-Li (Leo) Chu. PhD student. College: Churchill. Supervisor: Helen Curry. Thesis topic: Harvesting Diversity: Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the Transformation of the Green Revolution,

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. How to find the Department. The Department of History and Philosophy of Science is on Free School Lane. This is in the centre of Cambridge, between Pembroke Street and Bene't Street. The

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Many Births of the Test-Tube Baby. Born following in vitro fertilization in Oldham, near Manchester in 1978, Louise Brown made global news. Some five million children later, she won

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Funding for postgraduate students. Some options for obtaining funding are given on this page. See Cambridge Funding Search for details of other awards that are available. We recommend

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Research guide. Research topics and readings in history and philosophy of science. Writing philosophy – Peter Lipton. How to organise a history essay or dissertation – Sachiko Kusukawa

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Jacob Stegenga. Professor of Philosophy of Science. Jacob Stegenga is a Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He has published

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Making Climate History. Making Climate History. Two centuries after the emergence of steam technologies and 170 years after initial suggestions that the atmosphere keeps Earth warm,

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Guidelines for departmental activities. Certain types of scholarly activities of core staff and affiliates of the Department require advance notification and approval by the Head of

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Routes into History and Philosophy of Science. Part IB. Natural Sciences Tripos (NST): We welcome everyone who wants to take HPS Part IB. At the present time there is no upper limit;

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Complaints. Difficulties can usually be resolved informally. Students who have a complaint about supervision or any other aspect of teaching should do the following:. Speak to your

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Hitesh Pant. PhD student. College: Selwyn. Supervisor: Helen Curry. Thesis topic: Historical perspectives on crop diversity and food security. Department of History and Philosophy of

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. History of Medicine events. Events. Seminars in HPS. History of Medicine Seminars meet during Michaelmas and Lent full terms, and include sessions devoted to 'Generation to Reproduction'.

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Social media guidance. Please take care when using social media. The University respects privacy and is committed to the principle of freedom of speech and expression. It understands that

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Plagiarism and academic misconduct. Plagiarism is defined as the unacknowledged use of the work of others as if this were your own original work. A student may be found guilty of an act

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. John Forrester. John Forrester, Professor in the Department of History of Philosophy of Science, died on 24 November 2015. Obituary: Professor John Forrester (1949–2015). Freud in

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Vesalius Census. The Vesalius Census provides a world-wide descriptive census of the first major illustrated atlas of anatomy. We are documenting every known surviving copy of the

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Supervising PhD students. As part of the requirements set by funding bodies, all supervisors are expected to undertake training on the expectations, roles and responsibilities of graduate

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Advice. Advice. In this section:. Some basic strategies to help demystify the process of writing. Answering an exam question – what to do and what to avoid. Learning strategies and exam

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Philippa Carter. University Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine and Health before 1800. Philippa Carter is a historian of early modern Europe and the Atlantic world (c.

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. From Hansa to Lufthansa: Transportation Technologies and the Mobility of Knowledge in Germanic Lands and Beyond, 1300–2018. How do you get from one end of the globe to the other, and

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. HPS Discussion email list. HPS Discussion, the Department's email list, is used for disseminating news of lectures, seminars, conferences and other events of interest to the HPS community.

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Referencing. When writing essays and dissertations, correct and consistent referencing is an important way to avoid accusations of plagiarism and ensure that people reading your work can

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Stephen John. Hatton Lecturer in the Philosophy of Public Health. I am a Senior Lecturer, with research and teaching interests in a variety of topics at the intersection of philosophy of

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Darwin Correspondence Project. The Darwin Correspondence Project was an independently funded research team, jointly managed by Cambridge University Library and the American Council of

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Matt Syd Rosen. PhD student. College: Pembroke. Supervisor: Nick Hopwood. Thesis topic: Celebrity science and the cybernetic vanguard. Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Student representation. Monitoring Committee. The Monitoring Committee is a forum for discussion of matters directly affecting students. The Department finds that obtaining feedback from

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Richard A. McKay. Affiliated Scholar. External College Lecturer and Director of Studies for HPS at Magdalene College. Research interests: Twentieth century history of medicine and public

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Lost Museums of Cambridge Science, 1865–1936. 1 March 2016 to 31 August 2019. This Leverhulme and Newton Trust funded project examines the practices of collecting, display and

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Examiners' reports. Introduction to examiners' reports. Please note that all undergraduate submitted work and examination scripts are marked anonymously; in fact all HPS examinations are

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. L. Joanne Green. PhD student. College: Girton. Supervisor: Jim Secord, advisor: Simon Schaffer. Thesis topic: The British entomological community, 1870–1920: gender, empire, networks.

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Medical Publishers, Obscenity Law and the Business of Sexual Knowledge in Victorian Britain. Britain's production of books on all branches of medicine, including volumes that described

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Timetable for Easter Term 2024. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. 9am. 10am. 11am. 12noon. 1pm. 2pm. 3pm. 4pm. 5pm. Weeks 1–3:. IB: Philosophy of Biology. Week 4:. IB:

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Amelia Urry. PhD student. College: Darwin. Supervisor: Richard Staley. Co-supervisor: Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Centre, Cambridge). Thesis topic: Sensing oceans, mapping ice: a

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Culture at the Macro-Scale: Boundaries, Barriers and Endogenous Change. 6 October 2020 to 30 April 2022. The story of hominin populations over the course of the last two million years is

8 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:

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Simon Schaffer. Professor of History of Science. Simon Schaffer was trained in natural sciences and history & philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University.

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tools in Materials Research. The science of materials has contributed to changes in our civilization as pervasive as they are profound. The ways we travel, communicate, build buildings,

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Computing information. IT facilities in and around the Department. Whipple Library. There are eight PCs in the Whipple Library, including three with full access to Microsoft Office

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Angela V. Gui. PhD student. College: Corpus Christi. Supervisor: Mary Brazelton and Nick Hopwood. Contact me: vag27@cam.ac.uk. My research focuses on lung disease epidemics in twentieth

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Investigating Fake Scientific Instruments in the Whipple Museum Collection. Since its foundation in 1951 the Department's Whipple Museum has pioneered research into fake scientific

8 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

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Costanza Coloni. PhD student. College: Newnham. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Thesis topic: Approximate truths: the conventionalist import into scientific realism. Department of History and

8 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

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Damon Kutzin. PhD student. College: St John's. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Thesis topic: An analysis and development of Michael Polanyi's scientific realism. Department of History and

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Past exam papers. Past exam papers from Part IB, Part II and Part III are available here as PDF files. Part IB papers. Part II HPS papers. Part II BBS papers. 2022–. Major Subject in

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Daniela Sclavo. PhD student. College: Darwin. Supervisor: Helen Curry. Thesis topic: Conservation and flavour: the case of chile (Capsicum spp). Conservation efforts in Mexico from the

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Timetable for Lent Term 2024. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. 9am. 10am. Part III & MPhil Discussion Seminar (10.00–11.30). Part III & MPhil Discussion Seminar