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3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. News and events. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. News and events. March 2024. Edwin Rose on the 200-year-old plant specimens collected on the Beagle voyage. November

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Becoming a Visiting Scholar or Visiting Student. Becoming a Visiting Scholar or Visiting Student. Every year we are approached by scholars from all over the world who want to spend short

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part II. Part II. The Part II course in History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) gives students an insight into the historical development of science, medicine and technology. It addresses

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Email search. Internal directory. Lookup is the University's internal directory of staff and student email addresses. You can only access this directory if you have a Raven password.

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Information for examiners and assessors. Information for examiners and assessors. Guidelines on examinations. Claim forms. Assessors and examiners who are eligible to receive a fee should

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. PhD in History and Philosophy of Science. PhD in History and Philosophy of Science. Students in history and philosophy of science and medicine write substantial, focused and independent

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Past exam papers. ... Past exam papers from Part IB, Part II and Part III are available here as PDF files.

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Applying for research grants and post-doctoral fellowships. HPS has internal mechanisms for scrutinising research grant applications that enable us to work quickly and efficiently. All

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Funding for postgraduate students. Some options for obtaining funding are given on this page. See Cambridge Funding Search for details of other awards that are available. We recommend

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Becoming an Affiliate. Process. Submit an application to your sponsor (a member of staff in HPS). The sponsor forwards the application form (if they accept it) to

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. Our MPhil (Master of Philosophy) provides students with an unparalleled

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: Not all the exams are held at the same venue, so be sure to make a note of where each exam will take place. ... The week before the exams. Sleep, eat and drink sensibly. Keep doing exam questions to time to break up your revision schedule and show which

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Research projects. Research projects. Tracing the story of Hugh Cuming's voyage to the Philippines during the 1830s. Examining the complex historical relationship between European

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. History of Medicine. History of Medicine. The Department of History and Philosophy of Science is a major centre for research, teaching and public engagement in history of medicine. The

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. Part II timetable. Part II. Course manager: Dániel Margócsy. are held in the first half of Michaelmas Term. Research methods seminars are held in Michaelmas Term. Writing support

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: We take the marking of exams very seriously and therefore errors in the calculation of exam results are very rare. ... However, if you believe your exam result is not correct, you may request a marks review.

3 Jul 2024: Answering an exam question – what to do and what to avoid. ... Practical advice on how to prepare for the exams.

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Jim Secord. Emeritus Professor. Director, Darwin Correspondence Project. Research interests: Social history of science since 1750; life and earth sciences; history of science communication

3 Jul 2024: The same as BBS Subject 113; students take NST2BBS Paper 65 in the exam). ... They take NST1 Paper HPS/1 and NST1 Paper HPS/2 in the exams.

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Salim Al-Gailani. University Assistant Professor. Research interests. History of medicine and the life sciences since 1800, especially obstetrics, midwifery and childbirth; public health

3 Jul 2024: Guidance about writing, preparing for exams and other aspects of the course.

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Peter Jones. College Fellow. Research interests: Medieval medicine and science; image-making in medicine; medical books and the circulation of medical information. Peter Murray Jones is a

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Student prizes. Willmoth Prize. The Frances Willmoth Prize is awarded each year for the best performance in the dissertation component of the History and Philosophy of Science Part II

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Richard A. McKay. Affiliated Scholar. External College Lecturer and Director of Studies for HPS at Magdalene College. Research interests: Twentieth century history of medicine and public

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part IB students' guide. Part IB students' guide. These pages contain information for students taking the NST Part IB course in History and Philosophy of Science. For an introduction to

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. John Forrester. John Forrester, Professor in the Department of History of Philosophy of Science, died on 24 November 2015. Obituary: Professor John Forrester (1949–2015). Freud in

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Plagiarism and academic misconduct. Plagiarism is defined as the unacknowledged use of the work of others as if this were your own original work. A student may be found guilty of an act

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Marta Halina. University Associate Professor in the Philosophy of Cognitive Science. I am a University Associate Professor in the Philosophy of Cognitive Science. I received my PhD in

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. MPhil students' guide. MPhil students' guide. These pages contain information and advice for current students on the MPhil course in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. For

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Charu Singh. University Assistant Professor in Non-Western History of the Sciences. I am an Assistant Professor in Non-Western History of the Sciences Before 1900. Trained as a historian

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part III students' guide. Part III students' guide. These pages contain information for students taking the NST Part III course in History and Philosophy of Science. For an introduction

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tim Lewens. Professor of Philosophy of Science. Research interests: Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, philosophical bioethics. From 2016 to 2019 Tim was an investigator on a

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Timetable 2023–24. Timetable. Timetable by course. Timetable by term. Where do the lectures take place? The venue is shown on the page for each course. Links. Related pages. Department

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. Jacob Stegenga. Professor of Philosophy of Science. Jacob Stegenga is a Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He has published

3 Jul 2024: The Department appoints an external examiner for each part of the exams.

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Simon Schaffer. Professor of History of Science. Simon Schaffer was trained in natural sciences and history & philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge and Harvard University.

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Directors of Studies. College. Director of Studies for HPS. Christ's College. Churchill College. Clare College. Corpus Christi College. Downing College. Emmanuel College. Fitzwilliam

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Nick Hopwood. Professor of History of Science and Medicine. On research leave till September 2024. Still supervising PhD students. A historian of biological and medical sciences, I am

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. PhD students' guide. PhD students' guide. These pages contain information and advice for current PhD students in the Department. For information about applying to become a PhD student

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Peter Lipton. Professor Peter Lipton died suddenly of natural causes on the evening of Sunday 25 November 2007. His funeral was held on 28 November 2007, and a memorial service was held

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Research guide. Research topics and readings in history and philosophy of science. Writing philosophy – Peter Lipton. How to organise a history essay or dissertation – Sachiko Kusukawa

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Matt Farr. Associate Teaching Professor in Philosophy of Physics. Matt Farr is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department. Before joining the University of Cambridge, Matt was a

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Referencing. When writing essays and dissertations, correct and consistent referencing is an important way to avoid accusations of plagiarism and ensure that people reading your work can

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Helen Anne Curry. Honorary Senior Research Fellow. I’m the Kranzberg Professor in the History of Technology in the School of History and Sociology at Georgia Tech. I research and teach

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. BBS Part II timetable. BBS Part II. Options for students taking the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) course in Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos. Part II students' guide: BBS

3 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Jia Yu. PhD student. College: Lucy Cavendish. Supervisor: Mary Brazelton, Jim Secord (advisor). Thesis topic: Early twentieth century periodicals and natural histories in modern China.