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7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tim Lewens. Professor of Philosophy of Science. Research interests: Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, philosophical bioethics. From 2016 to 2019 Tim was an investigator on a

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Information for supervisors. Information for supervisors. Reports and payment. CamCORS (the Cambridge Colleges' Online Reporting System for Supervisions) should be used by everyone

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. FlyBase: Communicating Drosophila Genetics on Paper and Online, 1970–2000. How do scientific communities come together to produce community resources – such as repositories,

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part IB. The Part IB course in History and Philosophy of Science offers a wide-ranging overview of the nature of science and its place in society. The course explores the historical,

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. News and events. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. News and events. March 2024. Edwin Rose on the 200-year-old plant specimens collected on the Beagle voyage. November

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

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Jia Yu. PhD student. College: Lucy Cavendish. Supervisor: Mary Brazelton, Jim Secord (advisor). Thesis topic: Early twentieth century periodicals and natural histories in modern China.

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Becoming an Affiliate. Process. Submit an application to your sponsor (a member of staff in HPS). The sponsor forwards the application form (if they accept it) to

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Before HIV: Homosex and Venereal Disease, c.1939–1984. 1 January 2013 to 30 June 2019. Men who have sex with men currently experience a disproportionately high prevalence of sexually

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. BBS options. Students taking NST Part II Biological and Biomedical Sciences can now choose History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine (HPSM) as their Major Subject. Alternatively, BBS

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Email search. Internal directory. Lookup is the University's internal directory of staff and student email addresses. You can only access this directory if you have a Raven password.

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part II timetable. Part II. Course manager: Dániel Margócsy. are held in the first half of Michaelmas Term. Research methods seminars are held in Michaelmas Term. Writing support

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Niall Roe. PhD student. College: Fitzwilliam. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Thesis topic: Pragmatism and the growth of concepts. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Study History

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Applying for research grants and post-doctoral fellowships. HPS has internal mechanisms for scrutinising research grant applications that enable us to work quickly and efficiently. All

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of Science in Cambridge. Philosophy of Science. Cambridge has a long tradition of seminal work in the philosophy of science, stretching back as far as William Whewell in the

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Frequently asked questions. On this page:. Applying. When should I apply? We will accept applications from 3 September 2024 for admission in October 2025. The deadline for applications is

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. BBS Part II timetable. BBS Part II. Options for students taking the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) course in Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos. Part II students' guide: BBS

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Daniel Ott. PhD student. College: Trinity Hall. Supervisor: Marta Halina. Thesis topic: Nosology of chronic pain: technological innovation catalyzing novel disease categorization.

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Colonial Natures. Colonial Natures. Principal Investigator: Daniel Margocsy. Colonial Natures examines the complex historical relationship between two crucial phenomena that shape

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Lecturing buddies scheme. If you give lectures in the Department you should participate in the lecturing buddies scheme. Find a buddy as soon as possible and let Jane Clare

7 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

7 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

7 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

7 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

7 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

7 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

7 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

7 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

7 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

7 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,

7 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

7 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;

7 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

7 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

7 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'.

7 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

7 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

7 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

7 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

7 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

7 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

7 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.

7 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

7 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.

7 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

7 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.

7 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

7 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

7 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

7 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.