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Dissertation. Social epistemology meets science policy: a model driven proposal to test science funding strategies (supervised by Shahar Avin and Stephen John). ... Part III Essay and Dissertation Titles. Joe Bonham-Carter. Essays. Otto Neurath's welfare

Year’.  One plague, two visions: A Journal of the Plague Year and Samuel Pepys’ Diary. ... Should they? Disputes between conventional normative economics and ‘happiness economics’ (around well-being vs.

Is ARCH modelling a telling example of a paradigm? A Kuhnian perspective on financial economics. ... supervised by Marina Frasca-Spada) Can economics be modelled? A consensus undermines a paradox (supervised by Christopher.

the Superconducting Super Collider?  Safe science for Catholics: Sir Bertram Windle (1858-1929) on evolution and religion  The Turing Test through time  Anthropology at war: a critique of ... the Coombs test  A time to be born? Induction in

Contents The Department. Introduction. 2 Staff and affiliates. 3 Visitors and students. 4 Comings and goings. 5 Roles and responsibilities. 6 Prizes, projects and honours. 8 Seminars and special lectures. 9. Students Student statistics. 10 Part II

A study of Topsell’s The Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes (1607) Falsifiability and Intelligent Design Genius sperm and test tube babies Images of Kuhn: five responses to The Structure of

The examiners remarked that this allowed the examinations to act as a better test of students’ abilities to construct well-structured essays than the typical closed-book three-hour exam format. ... While some essays were considered ‘episodic rather

Scientists, on the other hand, validate their constructs and measures using psychometric tests. ... 8 October Jim Moore (Open University). Making livings: the economic worlds of Wallace and Darwin.

23 May Eighteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College Crosbie Smith (University of Kent) Coal, steam and ships: economic historians versus historians of technology? ... 16 May Keith Breckenridge (Wits Institute for

This problem, to be sure, is widespread across the sciences. According to the ‘received view’, invariance under intervention provides the crucial test to decide whether X causes Y. ... Meehl, P.E. (1955). Construct Validity in Psychological Tests.

Answers to question 3 were very varied, covering alchemy and the economics ofchemistry, as well as the location and roles of naturalists, natural philosophers and their patrons. ... In question 8 (19 answers) many candidates conflated the two important

This talk will tell the story of laboratory pregnancy testing in Britain before the first DIY tests of the 1970s. ... Understanding how the book is made is vital to the study of its contents, helping to locate its economic and social context, its audience

Computing machinery and intelligence’ ‘The search for intelligent life?’ Turing’s test for acculturation How right was Turing? ... How Turing missed the point about consciousness Is Turing’s imitation game a valid test for intelligence?

9 November Salim Al-Gailani: Private science and public morals: the diary of a late-Victorian teratologist. ... 19 October Anna Alexandrova: Buyer beware: robustness analyses in theoretical economics 2 November Mark Colyvan: The ins and outs of

an egg in a test-tube?  ''Early stages of fertilization in vitro of human oocytes matured in vitro' and the changing face of Nature in. ... 23. Jack Wright Essays Double standards? Why do misrepresentations in economics face stricter criticism than

instrument and object in postwar US. philosophy and economics. Measurement and value in Restoration credit. ... Commerce'. Natural analogy in English economic thought,. 1622–1672. Dissertation: Metallurgy, agronomy and.

machine rights Psychotherapy, autism and the imitation game ‘Stolen thought’ and the Turing test Turing’s smoke screen: why the need for the nine objections? ... supervised by Sarah Hodges) ‘Am I depressed?’: shifting self-reporting tests for

Putting the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis. to the Test’ Andrew Buskell, one of the. ... Between Men and Women’, 1887. Dissertation. Screening for syphilis: how blood syphilis tests.

ERC Economics in the Public Sphere: USA, UK, France, Poland and Brazil since 1945. ... scientific discovery (supervised by Hasok Chang) William Peden Essays How does economic history progress?

Rickets: a new disease in seventeenth-century England? Using the London Bills of Mortality 1593-1664, is there a relationship between parochial death rates and economic. ... Submitted Catherine Eagleton ‘Instruments in context: telling the time in

The second of these projects will be managed by Tiago Mata, who will be exploring ‘Economics in the Public Sphere: USA, UK, France, Poland and Brazil since 1945’ looking at how ... European Research Council: Economics in the Public Sphere: USA, UK,

the Economic and Social Science Research Council.

by Tony Lawson, Faculty of Economics and Politics) Michael Michael ‘Akrasia: an essay on what it means to act without self-restraint’ (supervised by Peter Lipton) Sadiah Qureshi ‘Living curiosities: human

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in the diagnostic laboratory: the rise and fall of living pregnancy tests in Britain.