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7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet trip to Down House. The Cabinet of Natural History visited Down House in Kent, the home of Charles Darwin, on 22 May 2015. Photos by Margaret Carlyle, Dmitriy Myelnikov, Anne

7 Jul 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

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part II research methods seminars. Tuesdays at 3pm in weeks 2, 4–6 of Michaelmas Term. Part II students are strongly encouraged to attend these sessions, which provide crucial advice

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Professor Mary Hesse (1924–2016). We deeply regret to announce the death on Sunday 2 October of Professor Mary Hesse, ScD FBA. Mary Brenda Hesse, born 15 October 1924, studied first at

7 Jul 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

7 Jul 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

7 Jul 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

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Modern Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Minor Subject 114 in Part II Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS). Part of the BBS Major SubjectPaper manager: Salim Al-Gailani. Lectures are

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Supervisions. Colleges appoint Directors of Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, or nominate someone else to manage supervision arrangements for the College. At the start of the

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. From Collection to Cultivation: Historical Perspectives on Crop Diversity and Food Security. From Collection to Cultivation: Historical Perspectives on Crop Diversity and Food Security.

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of Science events. Ongoing seminars include CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science), Wednesdays from 1.00 to 2.30, and the Departmental Seminar, Thursdays from 3.30 to 5.00.

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Professor Rupert Hall (1920–2009). Professor A.R. (Rupert) Hall, a founder member of the Department, died on 5 February 2009, aged 88. Rupert Hall was the first Curator of the Whipple

7 Jul 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.

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part II Paper 4: Philosophy and Scientific Practice. Paper manager: Tom McClelland. Also offered as an optional paper in Part II of the Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos (PBS).

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Ethics of Medicine. This paper is part of the BBS Major Subject History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. Lectures are held in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part II Paper 3: Modern Medicine and Life Sciences. Paper manager: Salim Al-Gailani. Lectures are held in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Michaelmas Term. Science in

7 Jul 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

7 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. About the course. The MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine is a nine-month course that starts in October each year. The course is conducted by means of supervisions and

7 Jul 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,

7 Jul 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