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27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Examinations data retention policy. The Board of History and Philosophy of Science has agreed the following data retention policy for University examinations taken in:. Natural Sciences

27 Jun 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.

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine. Minor Subject 107 in Part II Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS). Part II students' guide: BBS options. Paper manager: Stephen John. Lectures are

27 Jun 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

27 Jun 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

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Key dates and deadlines. Michaelmas Term 2023. 4 October. 11am: Introductory meeting. 18 October. Submit form with choice of primary source. 23 October. Option A: Submit form with

27 Jun 2024: Orchids and Dandelions: Categorisation of People in the Research on Differential Plasticity'.

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Subject areas. The topics of your Research Papers and Dissertation should each fall within one of the following specified subject areas:. Part III subject area. Relevant Part II papers.

27 Jun 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

27 Jun 2024: The people who claim to hear the Northern Lights’, BBC Future Article, 4.

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Key dates and deadlines. Michaelmas Term 2023. 4 October. Meeting for Part III students at 2pm. 30 October. Submit topic form for Research Paper 1. 10 November. Last date for changing

27 Jun 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

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Statement on recording of lectures. Statement of Policy on the Recording of Lectures, 2023–24. Department approach. Within the Department of History and Philosophy of Science there is

27 Jun 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

27 Jun 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

27 Jun 2024: Why do people believe what physicians, engineers or scientists say? Is science universally true, or has it developed in different ways in different cultures?

27 Jun 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

27 Jun 2024: How is water even real?', Symposium: Realism for realistic people, A Copenhagen-Cambridge symposium on Hasok Chang’s philosophy of science, University of Copenhagen (2022).

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Richard Staley. Hans Rausing Lecturer and Professor in History and Philosophy of Science. I am a faculty member both in Cambridge and at the University of Copenhagen. I complement

27 Jun 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,

27 Jun 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;

27 Jun 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

27 Jun 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

27 Jun 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

27 Jun 2024: Selected publications. ‘Seafaring, Enslavement and the Longitude Problem’, in: Victoria Avery and Jake Subryan Richards (eds.), Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance (Philip Wilson: 2023): 91–93.

27 Jun 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

27 Jun 2024: The Darwin Family and Cambridge: Preliminary Research Scoping', The Darwinian Alumni Newsletter, February 2021. ... This project is the first systematic study to cast light on how theological aspirations connected the Cambridge Botanic Garden to networks

27 Jun 2024: 1 (2023): 3-18. 「中华人民共和国的群众性免疫接种:从全民健康到 全球健康」[Mass immunization in the People’s Republic of China: from national to global health]，trans. ... Review of The People's Health: Health Intervention

27 Jun 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.

27 Jun 2024: 2019 – STS Alumni Prize for outstanding contribution to life in the department, University College London.

27 Jun 2024: Postdoctoral Researchers. (People marked with are holders of independent fellowships and are not employed by the University of Cambridge.).

27 Jun 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

27 Jun 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

27 Jun 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,

27 Jun 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

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Hamed Tabatabaei Ghomi. I am the Sowerby Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Philosophy at King's College of London Department of Philosophy. I finished my PhD in Cambrdige HPS working with

27 Jun 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,

27 Jun 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

27 Jun 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:

27 Jun 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

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cristian Larroulet Philippi. PhD student and Junior Research Fellow at Gonville & Caius. College: St Edmund's. Supervisor: Anna Alexandrova and Jacob Stegenga. Research topics:

27 Jun 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

27 Jun 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

27 Jun 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

27 Jun 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:

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Professional Services Staff. Ms Morgan Bell. Collections Manager, Whipple Museum. Mr Toby Bryant. Senior Clerical Assistant and Receptionist. Ms Laura Burgazzi. Senior Library Assistant.

27 Jun 2024: My project radically reorients common accounts of the history of science by showing that several scientific debates typically deemed “European” originated in China, emerging through East Asian peoples’ interactions with Jesuit

27 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Nader El-Bizri. Affiliated Scholar. Professor Nader El-Bizri is an Affiliated Scholar with the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and an

27 Jun 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

27 Jun 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