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should be agreed in advance at the Lent meeting at which the exam questions are set.

In the exam, answers to section A questions were widely spread in terms of quality and choice: five out of eleven Part II candidates attempted question 1, and three each attempted

Number sitting the exam/s outside the main exam hall/s: 1 HPS, 9 BBS SpLD Conduct of the Examination:  Candidates sitting papers in the Titan Suite on the morning ... Paper 10 Candidates on this paper achieved three Firsts and two Upper Seconds, and

Examination administration In the light of strike action called by the UCU we were not able to provide Examiners to start three exams on 25 and 26 May. ... Paper 10 The most popular questions were on philosophy of social science and cognitive science,

Warfare states, technology and science in the twentieth century. 29 May Matteo Mamelli (London School of Economics) Rethinking heredity. ... 29 May Matteo Mamelli (London School of Economics) Rethinking heredity. Fifty years ago, in Cambridge, Watson and

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

They hypothesized about degeneration and endocrinology, tracked venereal disease, set up a special infertility clinic, performed pelvic exams and salpingectomies, and experimented with psychological tests designed to diagnose a desire for

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.

The History of Science exam took place on Monday 6 July 2011, and Philosophy of Science on Tuesday 7 July.

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).

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.

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

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