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18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Anna Alexandrova. Professor in Philosophy of Science. I study how scientists navigate morally charged and complex phenomena and the role of formal tools such as models and indicators in

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Eoin Carter. PhD student. College: Darwin. Supervisor: Jim Secord. Thesis topic: Radical Politics and Popular Science in Britain, 1815–48. Summary. My research explores the relationship

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Rhianna Elliott. PhD student. PhD research funded by a Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship. College: Newnham. Supervisors: Prof Lauren Kassell; Prof Daniel Margocsy. Advisor: Dr Rebecca

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Silvia Maria Marchiori. PhD student. College: Trinity. Supervisor: Dániel Margócsy. Advisor: Lauren Kassell. Thesis topic: The reception of Cornelius Celsus' De medicina from the Middle

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Hasok Chang. Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science. Head of Department. Research interests. History and philosophy of chemistry and physics from the 18th century

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Sachiko Kusukawa. College Teaching Officer. Tutor and Fellow in the History and Philosophy of Science, Trinity College. Research interests: History of science, cultural and intellectual

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Benjamin Chin-Yee. PhD student. College: King's. Supervisor: Jacob Stegenga. Advisor: Stephen John. Thesis topic. My thesis focuses on the philosophy of cancer medicine, specifically

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Florence Adams. PhD student. College: Clare. Supervisor: Jacob Stegenga. Advisor: Anna Alexandrova. Thesis topic: Measuring Discrimination. Research areas: Philosophy of social science,

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Zhiyu Chen. PhD student. College: Newnham. Supervisor: Dániel Margócsy. Advisor: Mary Augusta Brazelton. Thesis topic: Translocal Geography: The Selden Map and Cross-Cultural Knowledge

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Andreas Sommer. Research Associate. Research. History of the human sciences and medicine; historiographies of science and the occult; scientific naturalism; William James. I'm interested

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Simon Mitton. College Fellow. Life Fellow, St Edmund's College. Fellow Royal Astronomical Society; Fellow Geological Society of London; Fellow Royal Historical Society. Member

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Adrià Segarra. PhD student. College: St John's. Supervisor: Jacob Stegenga. Advisor: Alexander Bird. Thesis topic: A Hybrid Theory of Induction. Research interests: Induction, Evidence

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Dr. M.A. Diamond-Hunter. Teaching Associate. I am a philosopher of science whose current research programme is concerned with how uses of socially-salient and socially important concepts

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Olin Moctezuma-Burns. PhD student. College: Pembroke. Supervisor: Lauren Kassell and Staffan Müller-Wille. Thesis topic: Kitchen lists and the construction of botanic knowledge in the

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. PhD Students. Related pages. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Study History and Philosophy of Science. Library and Museum. Research. 2024 University of Cambridge.

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Olesya Bondarenko. PhD student. College: St John's. Supervisors: Tim Lewens, Anna Alexandrova. Thesis: Tempering the Ambition of Social Science Genomics: Causation, Explanation, and

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Pamela Mackenzie. Postdoctoral Researcher. Dr Pamela Mackenzie is a SSHRC-funded Postdoctoral Researcher and visiting scholar in the History and Philosophy of Science Department, working

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Sheryl Wombell. PhD student. College: Wolfson. Supervisors: Professor Emma Spary, Professor Lauren Kassell. Thesis topic: Navigating health and healing in a seventeenth-century network of

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Yijie Huang. PhD student. College: St Catharine's. Supervisor: Lauren Kassell and Dániel Margócsy (advisor). Thesis title: The Clock and the Hand: Taking the Pulse in English Medicine,

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Lauren Kassell. Professor of History of Science and Medicine. Fellow of Pembroke College. On leave from September 2021 to hold the Chair in History of Science at the European University

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Dmitriy Myelnikov. Teaching Associate. Research interests. History of medicine and the life sciences in the twentieth century, especially genetics, molecular biology, microbiology;

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Aditya Jha. PhD student. College: Queens'. Supervisors: Hasok Chang and Neil Dewar. Thesis topic: What is Temperature, Really? Email: akj31@cam.ac.uk. Research interests. Foundations of

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Anne Secord. Affiliated Scholar. Research interests: Practices of natural history; history of nineteenth-century popular science, science education, and working-class engagement with

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Marabel Riesmeier. PhD student. College: King's. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Advisor: Anna Alexandrova. Thesis topic: How chemicals matter: the ontology of chemical substance. Research

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Sophia Crüwell. PhD student . College: St John's. Supervisor: Jacob Stegenga. Thesis topic: A crisis without replication: Replication, the current crisis in psychology, and the Open

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Xinyi Wen. Research Project. The Doctrine of Signatures in Early Modern Medical Practice. Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship 221115. A walnut looks like the brain, so it can heal brain

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Joshua Nall. Director and Curator, Whipple Museum of the History of Science. Joshua Nall joined the Whipple Museum as Curator of Modern Sciences in 2013, having previously completed his

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Edwin Rose. AHRC Early Career Research Fellow. Advanced Research Fellow, Darwin College. Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of History. Edwin Rose is currently Principal Investigator on the

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Grace Field. PhD student. College: Trinity Hall. Supervisors: Hasok Chang and Jeremy Butterfield. Thesis topic: Building Black Holes: Analogue experiments and analogical reasoning.

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Obituary: Peter Lipton. Professor Peter Lipton (9 October 1954 – 25 November 2007). Peter Lipton, the first Hans Rausing Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, and

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Mary Augusta Brazelton. University Associate Professor in Global Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine. My research interests lie broadly in historical intersections of science,

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Philipp Spillmann. PhD student. College: Downing College. Supervisor: Tim Lewens and Marta Halina. Thesis topic: Philosophy of Astrobiology. Tentative title: Life in the Shadows: The N =

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Dániel Margócsy. Professor in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Email: dm753@cam.ac.uk. Dániel Margócsy studies the social and cultural history of early modern science,

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Ruward Mulder. PhD researcher. College: Trinity. Supervisor: Jeremy Butterfield. Advisor: Hasok Chang. Thesis topic: Towards conceptual clarity about the use of functional realism to

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Nick Hopwood. Professor of History of Science and Medicine. On research leave till September 2024. Still supervising PhD students. A historian of biological and medical sciences, I am

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Research Fellows and Teaching Associates. Honorary Senior Research Fellow. Histories of 20th and 21st century sciences and technology, especially biology and biotechnology. Teaching

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tom McClelland. Teaching Associate in Philosophy of Science. I recently joined HPS after three years at the Faculty of Philosophy. Before that I held posts at the universities of Warwick,

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Teaching Officers. University Assistant Professor. History of medicine and the life sciences since 1800. Professor Anna Alexandrova. Professor in Philosophy of Science. MPhil Manager (HPSM

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Ahmad Elabbar. PhD student. College: St Catharine's. Supervisor: Stephen John and Tim Lewens (advisor). Thesis topic: Justice as an ideal for climate assessment: A study of the

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Liba Taub. Professor Emerita. Director of Research, Whipple Museum of the History of Science. Research interests: History of scientific instruments and the preservation of material

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Your supervisor and advisor. Supervisor. As a new PhD student, you will be assigned a supervisor, who is responsible for guiding your studies. You are, however, expected to have the

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Affiliates. Emeritus. Dr Robert Anderson: History of chemistry and scientific instruments. Professor German E. Berrios: History of psychopathology and psychiatry. Dr Jeremy Butterfield:

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Industrial Patronage and the Cold War University. Why did industry and academia develop a closer financial relationship during the Cold War? Historians have provided one compelling answer

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Staffan Müller-Wille. Professor in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. I was trained in the sciences (Geology/Palaeontology) and moved into the History and Philosophy of Science

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Miguel Ohnesorge. College: Darwin. Supervisor: Hasok Chang  Advisor: Richard Staley. Thesis topic: The Problem of the Earth’s Figure: Measurement, Theory, and Evidence in Physical

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Sara Caputo. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. Biography. Sara Caputo's general areas of interest are eighteenth- and nineteenth-century transnational maritime history, British and

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Distribution of Part II marks. Year. First. Upper Second. Lower Second. Third. Deserved Honours. Total. Option A. Option B. 2023. 9. 16. 1. —. —. 26. 22. 4. 2022. 12. 24. 1. —. —.

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Zsuzsanna Ihar. Will be starting RCC Landhaus Fellowship in October, 2024. PhD student. College: Churchill. Supervisor: Prof. Helen Anne Curry & Prof. Richard Staley. Thesis topic:

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Obituary: John Forrester. Professor John Forrester (25 August 1949 – 24 November 2015). John Forrester, Professor in the Department of History of Philosophy of Science, which he joined

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Discover gallery opening. The Whipple Museum's 'Discover' gallery was officially opened on 21 June 2001. The gallery is a high-density display area – a sign informs visitors: 'Yes, you