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30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Fungus Hunt 2016. Nick Jardine reports on the 2016 Cabinet of Natural History Fungus Hunt, which was held in Bradfield Woods on 24 October. Photos by Charissa Varma. This was the 26th HPS

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part-time PhD. The PhD in History and Philosophy of Science is now offered as a part-time degree. It is normally expected that applicants for the part-time PhD would be employed in a

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of Science people. The philosophy of science community in Cambridge is comprised of permanent teaching and research staff in HPS and in Philosophy, fixed-term lecturers,

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. History of Medicine people. The people listed here work centrally in history of medicine and allied sciences. Many other colleagues have relevant interests; see the full list ofand

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Funding for travel grants, research expenses, language training, workshops and seminars. 1. Research and conference travel. The following research and conference travel expenses can be

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Values in Science Reading Group. We meet on Wednesdays from 11am to 12noon in Seminar Room 1. Organised by Ahmad Elabbar and Cristian Larroulet Philippi. Easter Term 2024. Week 1, 1 May.

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Retirement event: Secord – Taub – Schaffer – Hug. In 2022, the Cambridge HPS Department marks the retirement of several of our esteemed colleagues: Professors Simon Schaffer, James

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Science in the media. Jim Secord. The literature on mass communication is very large, variable in quality, and rarely in the Whipple. Most of the important texts are available in the SPS

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Supervising MPhil and Part III students. In HPS the MPhil and Part III Course Managers act as the principal supervisors for all that year's cohort of students and are responsible for

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Seven Ages of Nick Jardine. The Department held a special event on 30 June 2010 to celebrate the work of Professor Nick Jardine. Sessions held at Peterhouse focused on six areas of

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Staff review and development scheme. 1. Purpose of the scheme. The purpose of the Staff Review and Development Scheme (SRD) is to enhance work effectiveness and facilitate career

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Operation of the HPS plagiarism policy. Much emphasis in University policy is placed on raising student awareness of what constitutes plagiarism rather than dealing with the consequences

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Book launch and garden party. The Department celebrated the launch of Nick Hopwood's book Haeckel's Embryos: Images, Evolution and Fraud on 19 June 2015. A talk by Dr Hopwood was followed

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Advice from students. Welcome to Cambridge and a warm welcome to the Department on behalf of last year's MPhils! It has been an exciting year and we are reluctant to leave. In parting, we

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. CamPoS. CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) is a network of academics and students working in the philosophy of science in various parts of the University of Cambridge, including the

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part II primary source seminars. Seminars are held in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Michaelmas Term. Japan Day by Day. Lewis Bremner. Thu 10am (weeks 1–4). Does AI

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Examination advice. Peter Lipton. Show that you know the material by using it as a tool for your own arguments. A well-rehearsed production. Don't think of a paper as something that tests

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Learning strategies and exam skills. You must practise doing questions at the right speed so that you will be used to it when you sit the exam. Approaches to exams vary. Not all the

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Language Groups. Language Groups. German Therapy. German Therapy is an informal reading group, and all levels are welcome. This is an opportunity, among other things, to understand how

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet trip to Stowe. Photos from the Cabinet of Natural History field trip to Stowe Landscape Gardens, including the Temple of British Worthies and a bust of Isaac Newton, 14 May 2008.

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The history of the book. Adrian Johns. General texts. The best-known anglophonic treatment of the effects of printing is E.L. Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change:

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet trip to Orford Ness. Photos from the Cabinet of Natural History field trip to Orford Ness, 21 October 2008. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Study History and

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Oral history. Michael Bravo and Sophia Davis. Written texts tend to deal with limited types of issues, and tend to be available only from limited social groups. If your historical

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Michael Hoskin (1930–2021). Michael Hoskin, pre-eminent historian of astronomy, fellow of St Edmund's College, sometime Librarian and President of Churchill College, and former head of

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Teaching Global HPSTM. Following an idea that grew out of the 'Decolonise HPS' reading group that met at the Department from 2019 to 2023, 'Teaching Global HPSTM' will consist of a series

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet Garden Party 2017. The 2017 Cabinet of Natural History Garden Party was held on Friday 16 June in the garden at Finella, part of Gonville and Caius College. Sujit Sivasundaram

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet Garden Party 2013. The Cabinet of Natural History's end-of-year garden party for 2012–13 was held in Gonville and Caius College Fellows' Garden on 14 June. The event included a

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet Garden Party 2011. The Cabinet of Natural History's end-of-year garden party for 2010–11 was held at Christ's College on 10 June. The event included a talk by Vanessa Heggie:

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet Garden Party 2005. The 2005 Cabinet of Natural History Garden Party was held on Monday 13 June in King's College Fellows' Garden and featured a talk by Melanie Keene, 'An object

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet Garden Party 2003. The 2003 Cabinet of Natural History Garden Party was held in King's College Fellows' Garden on 9 June. The event featured a talk by Sujit Sivasundaram on the

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet Garden Party 2001. The 2001 Cabinet of Natural History Garden Party took place in the Fellows' Garden at King's College. HPS graduate student Helen Macdonald gave a talk on the

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Measurement Reading Group. Fridays at 11am–12noon (except for the first two weeks) in Seminar Room 1. Organised by Cristian Larroulet Philippi (cl792) and Miguel Ohnesorge (mo459).

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet Garden Party 2015. The Cabinet of Natural History held its annual garden party on 12 June 2015. Special thanks to Natalie Lawrence for her splendid talk on 'The Prime Minister and

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. A typical day for an MPhil student. What might a typical day look like for an HPS student? This page will hopefully give you some idea of your daily academic life as an MPhil student.

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Gerd Buchdahl (1914–2001). The Department was saddened to learn of the death of Gerd Buchdahl, one of the principal architects of History and Philosophy of Science in Cambridge and our

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Pragmatism Reading Group. The Pragmatism Reading Group is held on Mondays at 11am–12noon in the Board Room and on Zoom. Organisers: Niall Roe (nrr32), Damon Kutzin (dtk23), Ruward

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of physics. Jeremy Butterfield. The best place to start is with Cushing, J. [1998], Philosophical Concepts in Physics, Cambridge: CUP. But Sklar, L., [1992], Philosophy of

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. History of nutrition. Emma Spary. Food for thought: researching the history of nutrition. Unlike most of other areas covered in this guide, food isn't solely, or perhaps even principally,

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Essays and dissertation. MPhil students are required to submit two essays and a dissertation. Each of them must be on a topic approved by the Degree Committee that falls within one of the

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Writing. Adapted from an article originally written by Emm Barnes. Remember that good critics justify their criticism by careful argument. For many of you starting HPS Part II the

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Academic skills and career development. Researching in museums. Friday 6 October 2023, 1–2pm, Whipple Museum. Joshua Nall. Why is there a museum inside the HPS Department? And how can

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. HPS Workshop. Fridays, 5–6pm in the Board Room. Organised by by Niall Roe (nrr32). The HPS Workshop seeks to break the isolation of postgraduate research and encourage collaborative

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tamara Hug's retirement. Dear Students, Staff, and Friends of Cambridge HPS Past and Present,. I wanted to let everyone in the HPS community know that Tamara Hug, our much-loved

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Rationale. There are two ways over the last two centuries that people have made climate: through practices of industrialisation and land exploitation which launched the carbon economy and

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Social epistemology. Martin Kusch. Social epistemology is the philosophical study of the relevance of communities to knowledge. Social epistemology can be done descriptively or

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Purpose and Progress in Science. Thursdays at 11am in the Board Room. Organisers: Niall Roe (nrr32) and Nikki Levesley (nml46). This group meets weekly and discusses questions related to

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Coffee with Scientists. The aim of this group is to explore and enhance the interface between HPS and science. Although many of us in HPS engage closely with scientists and their practices

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Supervising Part IB and Part II students. The Department has many resources for supervising undergraduates taking our courses in the Natural Sciences Tripos. Often these supervisions are

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Other events and resources. Jobseekers' coffee. Organised by Kim Alexander and Phillip Kieval. PhD students, postdocs and early career scholars in HPS and Philosophy are invited to attend

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Atmospheric Humanities Reading Group. The Atmospheric Humanities Reading Group meets once a fortnight, on Tuesdays in the Board Room, to explore aspects of the air, climate, and