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8 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

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Sonia Wigh. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. Sonia Wigh is a British Academy Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

8 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

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power. Community Research Seminars.

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. 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. 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: DNA ancestry testing and genealogy. Anthropology of naming practices. Histories and legacies of transatlantic slavery. ... Genealogy 2, no. 1. Abel, Sarah and Marcela Sandoval-Velasco. 2016. ‘Crossing Disciplinary Lines: Reconciling Social and Genomic

8 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

8 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

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Phillip Hintikka Kieval. PhD student. College: Hughes Hall. Supervisor: Marta Halina. Advisor: Hasok Chang. My current research broadly concerns the epistemological and moral significance

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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. 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

8 Jul 2024: microbial genealogies, and cross-species comparative analyses.

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. casebook.jpeg. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Study History and Philosophy of Science. Library and Museum. Research. 2024 University of Cambridge.

8 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;

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Marina Frasca-Spada. College Fellow. Fellow, Corpus Christi College. Research interests: Hume's Treatise of Human Nature; history of philosophy of science from Descartes to Kant; reading

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Monte Cairns. PhD student. College: Peterhouse. Supervisor: Stephen John  Advisor: Anna Alexandrova. Thesis topics: Values in science, scientific classification, public health science.

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Janna Müller. PhD student. College: Newnham. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Thesis topic: Of planets, stars and something in between: a conceptual analysis of asteroids in the first half of

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Kay Simpson. PhD student. College: Newnham. Supervisor: Nick Hopwood. Thesis topic: Chromotherapy in British design and medicine, 1870–1950. Department of History and Philosophy of

8 Jul 2024: Burma Star Memorial Fund Archive: resources for genealogy and research related to the 1941-1945 Burma Campaign, including membership records, its magazine Dekho!, maps, propaganda and personal stories.

8 Jul 2024: Key publications:. Books. Colonialism and Islam in German East Africa, 1885–1918: A Genealogy of Colonial Religion.

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Seminars and reading groups. Seminars and reading groups. Seminars and reading groups are open to all members of the University (including academic staff, postdocs, postgraduate and

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Thomas Banbury. PhD student. College: Selwyn College. Supervisors: Prof Dániel Margócsy and Prof Liba Taub. Advisor: Dr Philippa Carter. Thesis topic: Toxic Atmospheres in English

8 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

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Katy Duncan. PhD student. College: Newnham. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Advisor: Simon Schaffer. Thesis: Influence, Instrument and Atmospheric Electricity (1850-1930). Research interests:

8 Jul 2024: For example, in a performing arts event in the Netherlands that engages families’ complex intergenerational, interracial genealogies, aspirations to make visible past injustices are challenged by the artists’ family’s embeddedness

8 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,

8 Jul 2024: local identity but also creating a political genealogy that linked the pre-Columbian world to Spanish imperial power.

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Miles Kempton. PhD student. College: Robinson. Supervisor: Nick Hopwood. Thesis topic: London Zoo, Television, and Primate Ethology: From the Launch of ITV to The Naked Ape.

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Myesha Jemison. PhD student. College: Trinity. Supervisor: Richard Staley. Advisor: Charu Singh. Thesis topic: Building Credibility: The Story of the Behavioural Dynamics Institute,

8 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

8 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

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Nuno Miguel Oliveira. PhD student. College: Christ's. Supervisor: Nick Hopwood. Thesis topic: Luminous Cold War: military patronage as a forgotten driver of bioluminescence science.

8 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

8 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

8 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

8 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Theo Di Castri. PhD student. College: King's. Supervisor: Dr. Helen Anne Curry. Thesis Topic: History of prevention science, 1960-present. Research interests: Risk; prevention; history

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. Grace Field. PhD student. College: Trinity Hall. Supervisors: Hasok Chang and Jeremy Butterfield. Thesis topic: Building Black Holes: Analogue experiments and analogical reasoning.

1 Apr 2020: With their similarity to family trees, I call this second kind of story a “genealogy of blame”.

8 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

8 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

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

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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. 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

8 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

8 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