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3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Daniela Sclavo. PhD student. College: Darwin. Supervisor: Helen Curry. Thesis topic: Conservation and flavour: the case of chile (Capsicum spp). Conservation efforts in Mexico from the

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Sonia Wigh. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. Sonia Wigh is a British Academy Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Use of Turnitin UK. This page explains how the text-matching software Turnitin UK is used by the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. It also explains the implications for

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Phillip Hintikka Kieval. PhD student. College: Hughes Hall. Supervisor: Marta Halina. Advisor: Hasok Chang. My current research broadly concerns the epistemological and moral significance

3 Jul 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

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. casebook.jpeg. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Study History and Philosophy of Science. Library and Museum. Research. 2024 University of Cambridge.

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Kay Simpson. PhD student. College: Newnham. Supervisor: Nick Hopwood. Thesis topic: Chromotherapy in British design and medicine, 1870–1950. Department of History and Philosophy of

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Janna Müller. PhD student. College: Newnham. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Thesis topic: Of planets, stars and something in between: a conceptual analysis of asteroids in the first half of

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Jeremy Schneider. Fellow of Trinity College. PhD, Princeton University. Email: js2897@cam.ac.uk. Jeremy Robin Schneider is a historian of early modern science. He received his PhD from

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Marina Frasca-Spada. College Fellow. Fellow, Corpus Christi College. Research interests: Hume's Treatise of Human Nature; history of philosophy of science from Descartes to Kant; reading

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Thomas Banbury. PhD student. College: Selwyn College. Supervisors: Prof Dániel Margócsy and Prof Liba Taub. Advisor: Dr Philippa Carter. Thesis topic: Toxic Atmospheres in English

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Monte Cairns. PhD student. College: Peterhouse. Supervisor: Stephen John  Advisor: Anna Alexandrova. Thesis topics: Values in science, scientific classification, public health science.

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Katy Duncan. PhD student. College: Newnham. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Advisor: Simon Schaffer. Thesis: Influence, Instrument and Atmospheric Electricity (1850-1930). Research interests:

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. BBS options. Students taking NST Part II Biological and Biomedical Sciences can now choose History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine (HPSM) as their Major Subject. Alternatively, BBS

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Eoin Carter. PhD student. College: Darwin. Supervisor: Jim Secord. Thesis topic: Radical Politics and Popular Science in Britain, 1815–48. Summary. My research explores the relationship

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3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Nuno Miguel Oliveira. PhD student. College: Christ's. Supervisor: Nick Hopwood. Thesis topic: Luminous Cold War: military patronage as a forgotten driver of bioluminescence science.

3 Jul 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

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3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Miles Kempton. PhD student. College: Robinson. Supervisor: Nick Hopwood. Thesis topic: London Zoo, Television, and Primate Ethology: From the Launch of ITV to The Naked Ape.

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Myesha Jemison. PhD student. College: Trinity. Supervisor: Richard Staley. Advisor: Charu Singh. Thesis topic: Building Credibility: The Story of the Behavioural Dynamics Institute,

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Seminars and reading groups. Seminars and reading groups. Seminars and reading groups are open to all members of the University (including academic staff, postdocs, postgraduate and

3 Jul 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;

22 Jan 2024: HPS Guidelines for online open book exams 2024. When examinations are conducted online, we recommend that students bear in mind the following guidelines:. ... Unlike in previous years, there is no additional window for the completion of the exam.

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Fiona Amery. PhD student. College: Selwyn. Supervisor: Richard Staley and Simon Schaffer (advisor). Thesis topic: The visualisation and investigation of the aurora borealis during the

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Rhianna Elliott. PhD student. PhD research funded by a Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship. College: Newnham. Supervisors: Prof Lauren Kassell; Prof Daniel Margocsy. Advisor: Dr Rebecca

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Theo Di Castri. PhD student. College: King's. Supervisor: Dr. Helen Anne Curry. Thesis Topic: History of prevention science, 1960-present. Research interests: Risk; prevention; history

2 Jul 2024: NST2PC HPS/1, HPT2 HPS/1, PBT1 HPS/1 NST1 Natural Sciences Tripos Part IB (2024) Paper HPS/1 HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (1) History of Science You should answer four questions in total. Answer one question from Section A and three questions

3 Jul 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

3 Jul 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

3 Jul 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,

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. generation.jpeg. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Study History and Philosophy of Science. Library and Museum. Research. 2024 University of Cambridge.

3 Jul 2024: mark. The set essays are completed in February, and are the only exam component. ... the essays, and then panic come exam-week (bitter experience makes us want to ensure you all circumvent this).

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Computing information. IT facilities in and around the Department. Whipple Library. There are eight PCs in the Whipple Library, including three with full access to Microsoft Office

3 Jul 2024: Candidates will be required to answer questions from both sections of each exam paper. ... Exam revision. The Part II Manager holds a general revision session early in Easter Term (after the dissertation deadline).

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Epsilon: A Collaborative Digital Framework for Nineteenth-Century Letters of Science. is both a research consortium and a developing, flexible, technical infrastructure for recreating the

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. FlyBase: Communicating Drosophila Genetics on Paper and Online, 1970–2000. How do scientific communities come together to produce community resources – such as repositories,

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Sachiko Kusukawa. College Teaching Officer. Tutor and Fellow in the History and Philosophy of Science, Trinity College. Research interests: History of science, cultural and intellectual

3 Jul 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

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of Science in Cambridge. Philosophy of Science. Cambridge has a long tradition of seminal work in the philosophy of science, stretching back as far as William Whewell in the

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Silvia Maria Marchiori. PhD student. College: Trinity. Supervisor: Dániel Margócsy. Advisor: Lauren Kassell. Thesis topic: The reception of Cornelius Celsus' De medicina from the Middle

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Oscar Westerblad. PhD student. College: Queens'. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Thesis topic: Formulating a pragmatist account of scientific understanding. Department of History and Philosophy

3 Jul 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

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Lecturing buddies scheme. If you give lectures in the Department you should participate in the lecturing buddies scheme. Find a buddy as soon as possible and let Jane Clare

3 Jul 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.

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Timetable for Lent Term 2024. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. 9am. 10am. Part III & MPhil Discussion Seminar (10.00–11.30). Part III & MPhil Discussion Seminar

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Timetable for Easter Term 2024. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. 9am. 10am. 11am. 12noon. 1pm. 2pm. 3pm. 4pm. 5pm. Weeks 1–3:. IB: Philosophy of Biology. Week 4:. IB:

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Before HIV: Homosex and Venereal Disease, c.1939–1984. 1 January 2013 to 30 June 2019. Men who have sex with men currently experience a disproportionately high prevalence of sexually

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Fieldwork, working away, risk assessment and insurance. Many postgraduate students will want to carry out some fieldwork at some point which will involve undertaking an essential piece of

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Casebooks Project. A digital edition of Simon Forman's and Richard Napier's medical records, 1596–1634. The Casebooks Project aims to make available the astrological records of