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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

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

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?

23. Jack Wright Essays Double standards? Why do misrepresentations in economics face stricter criticism than those in other sciences? ... Dissertation Separating theories and entities: the search for middle ground in the scientific realism debate

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

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.

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.

This talk will tell the story of laboratory pregnancy testing in Britain before the first DIY tests of the 1970s. ... 4 November Sophie Page (University College London) Medicine and learned magic in the late middle ages.

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.

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