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Warfare states, technology and science in the twentieth century. 29 May Matteo Mamelli (London School of Economics) Rethinking heredity. ... Sujit Sivasundaram (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge) Captive elephants, the East India Company’s army and

preservation enabled invisible instruments of economic utility to become visible objects of curiosity and, ultimately, politics; and how enslaved African agency both made and contested knowledge in the Atlantic world. ... 9 June Garden Party: 12noon in

Finally, the claim that for a condition to be pathological it must be potentially medically treatable is needed to distinguish disorders from other types of misfortune, for example economic problems and ... Select meetings will be held in historic

computing at the Moore Clinic, 1955-1973 (supervised by Nick Hopwood) Raj Patel Essays Ontic structural realism and economics: the unwanted gift (supervised by Anna Alexandrova) Epistemic relativisim in Kuhn and ... 23. Jack Wright Essays Double standards

Is ARCH modelling a telling example of a paradigm? A Kuhnian perspective on financial economics. ... between the sweating sickness treatises of Thomas Le Forestier and John Caius (supervised by Peter Jones).

the Economic and Social Science Research Council. ... Cooper, Caius College. Undated, but c. 1890-1900, covering. both invertebrate and vertebrate zoology at undergraduate level.

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

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?

Nadya Kelly (Gonville and Caius) & Hamish. Evans (Girton). Rausing Prize – Best Dissertation. ... social discount rate? The place for ethical. judgement in economics. Dr Martha Annie Whiteley: both an exceptional.

Sujit Sivasundaram was elected to a Research Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College starting October 2002, to continue his research on science, colonialism and post-colonialism.

Nadya Kelly (Gonville and Caius). Willmoth Prize – Best Dissertation. Performance in HPS Part II. ... Commerce'. Natural analogy in English economic thought,. 1622–1672. Dissertation: Metallurgy, agronomy and.

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,

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

Contents The Department. Introduction. 2 Staff and affiliates. 5 Visitors and students. 6 Comings and goings. 7 Roles and responsibilities. 8 Prizes, projects and honours. 10 Seminars and special lectures. 12. Students Student statistics. 14 Part II

19. MPhil and Part III Essay and Dissertation Titles MPhil Essays Callum Agnew Essays Genesis of an economic fact: the making of the World Top Incomes Database (supervised by Tiago Mata) ... rise of supply-side economics, 1972-1982 (supervised by Tiago

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. 10. Students Student statistics. 11 Part II

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

or market- level economics (rather than the financial imperatives of individual scientists). ... Q10. There were few answers to this question, all of which were uniformly weak: students often failed to focus on the concept of rationality as employed in

Saturday 7 ONE DAY WORKSHOP: Nature and Empire December Starting 10am in the Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College (see page 14 for more details). ... in the Senior Parlour at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge on Saturday 7 December 2002 from

While some essays were considered ‘episodic rather than synthetic’ by examiners, stronger essays offered interesting distinctions between military, economic and moral functions of natural sciences, with students prompted to reflect on

7 June Cabinet Garden Party, Gonville and Caius Rose Garden. Details will be circulated.

11 November Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila (Helsinki School of Economics) The relevance of Aristotle’s dialectic to his scientific method. ... 11 November Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila (Helsinki School of Economics). The relevance of Aristotle’s

Morgan, 2012, New York: Cambridge University Press), where we will find a history of modelling practices in economics. ... 24 January Reiss, chap. 2 – Methodology and Expert Judgement in Evidence-Based Economics: Lessons from the CPI Controversy.

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

The history of disease is a multifaceted enterprise in which social, cultural, demographic, economic and sociological approaches have played a dominant role in recent decades. ... would enable the individual to resist the depersonalizing action of the

16 October Sujit Sivasundaram (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge) Botany, empire, religion and collecting in early nineteenth-century north India.

29 October John Worrall (London School of Economics) A philosopher of science looks at medicine: do we ‘need some large, simple randomized trials’?

8 October Jim Moore (Open University). Making livings: the economic worlds of Wallace and Darwin. ... 20 November Simon Chaplin (Wellcome Library) and Christelle Rabier (London School of Economics) Curing things.

Empire, 1860-1900 22 November A Flamsteed Celebration (from 3.30pm) 29 November Nancy Cartwright (London School of Economics) How not to get causes from probabilities.

This is presumably due to politics of display or economic constraints; but it is also related to the use of objects. ... 18 February Christian List (London School of Economics and Political Science) Emergent chance (jointly authored with Marcus Pivato).

3. 9. In what ways was eighteenth-century natural history an economic practice? ... 1. 9. To what extent did the social and economic status of medieval and early modern patients determine how and where they were treated?

Friday 13 June Cabinet Party, 12.30–3pm, Caius Fellows’ Garden Speaker: James Hall (HPS, Cambridge).

Q11 on how anthropologists challenged understandings of “universal economic man” was particularly popular, and received some excellent answers, indicating that students like questions that allow them to develop some critical edge.

historians might revise the understandings of a saltation in twentieth-century political and economic history.

Organised by Michael Bycroft and Minwoo Seo. 27 April Josh Nall introduces Michael Polanyi Michael Polanyi, ‘The Rights and Duties of Science’, Manchester School of Economic and.

I will argue that recent work claiming to identify change in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century notions of generation, and to tie this to very specific social and economic changes, overlooks the

in poetry; some even in economic thought. ... Understanding the book as a physical object is a vital complement to the study of its contents, helping to locate its economic and social context, its audience, and ultimately its historical

Literature and Science 1700-1830 A series of six lectures and classes on Mondays at 10am in the Meade Room, Faculty of Economics, Sidgwick Avenue.

Generations’. Note: This seminar is at 8.30pm in the Senior Parlour, Gonville Court, Gonville and Caius College.

27 February Caroline Cornish (Royal Holloway) Curating science in an age of empire: the Kew Museums of Economic Botany.

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.

19 October Anna Alexandrova: Buyer beware: robustness analyses in theoretical economics 2 November Mark Colyvan: The ins and outs of mathematical explanation 16 November Emily Thomas: The equivocation objection to priority

Lecture Theatre, Trinity College on the subject “Coal, steam and ships: Economic historians versus historians of technology?”. ... Should they? Disputes between conventional normative economics and ‘happiness economics’ (around well-being vs.

Understanding how the book is made is vital to the study of its contents, helping to locate its economic and social context, its audience, and ultimately its historical significance.

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. 7. Seminars and Special Lectures. 8. STUDENTS Student Statistics. 10.

Part III Essay and Dissertation Titles. Joe Bonham-Carter. Essays. Otto Neurath's welfare economics (supervised by Anna Alexandrova).

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

1. Contents. The Department Introduction……………………………………………………….………………………2 Staff and affiliates………………………………………………….…………………….4 Visitors