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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