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30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Writing philosophy. Peter Lipton. Style is the feather in the arrow, not the feather in the cap. I. Awkwardness. Awkward writing makes the reader uncomfortable. It is ungrammatical,

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Essays and dissertation. Part III students are required to submit four essays and a dissertation, as follows:. Two Research Papers, each of not more than 5,000 words, on topics chosen in

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Science Fiction & HPS Reading Group (SF-HPS). This reading group uses science fiction (and its associated genres, such as fantasy, speculative fiction, and dystopia) as a lens to explore

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Simon Schaffer wins the 2018 Dan David Prize. The Dan David Prize, a major international prize for lifetime intellectual achievement and innovation, is awarded annually in the three

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Cambridge Reading Group on Reproduction. invites all Cambridge researchers to attend a twice-termly reading group to engage with classics and new work across disciplines – all with a

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Science and empire. Sujit Sivasundaram. Science and imperialism is a field of the future: an excellent reason to write a thesis or essay on this subject. The archival sources for this

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. History of Science and Medicine in Southeast Asia Reading Group. This reading group offers an opportunity for anyone interested in the history of science and medicine in Southeast Asia,

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Scientific manuscripts. Paul White. The use of manuscripts in historical research presents special challenges and also unique advantages. Such materials are often more difficult to access

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Departmental Seminars. Seminars take place on Thursdays from 3.30pm to 5pm in the Large Lecture Theatre in the Botany Building on the Downing Site, except for the Rausing Lecture on 30 May

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Scientific instruments. Boris Jardine and Joshua Nall, October 2017. Introduction. This guide is aimed at researchers who want to start working on an instrument, or a group or general

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Causation. Alex Broadbent. Pros and cons. Causation features heavily on many reading lists and in many lecture courses. This piece therefore takes a more discursive approach. It is

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. History of Medicine: past events. Public lectures. Recipes to Improve Your Love Life: Advice from the Eighteenth Century. Lisa Smith (University of Essex), 31 March 2016. After IVF: The

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Induction sessions. Induction session for HMS MPhil students. Wednesday 4 October 2023, 10–11am, Seminar Room 1. Philippa Carter (HMS MPhil Manager) and Isla Monk (HMS MPhil

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Foundations of Physics Reading Group. For physicists, philosophers and all other intellectuals: in this weekly reading group we look at state-of-the-art articles in the foundations of

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Anthropocene. The Anthropocene (Climate Histories) offers alternating sessions in the related fields of climate history and Anthropocene studies. Meetings will involve a mix of

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Ethics in science and medicine. Paul Miller. Reference. W Reich, ed., Encyclopedia of Bioethics. R Chadwick, ed., Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics. Books. Bioethics. General/introductory. P

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Works cited and project literature. Anderson, Katharine (2005) Predicting the weather: Victorians and the science of meteorology (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press). Antonello, Alessandro

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Publications. Each book in the Cabinet of Natural History's Garden Party Talks series contains several papers based on talks given at the Cabinet's annual garden party, as well as records

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Postgraduate Seminars. Postgraduate Seminars. The Postgraduate Seminars offer a sustained and systematic introduction to specific cutting-edge areas of research, led by leading experts in

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Early modern medicine. Lauren Kassell. This article was last updated in 1999. Please note that it does not reflect the latest contributions to the field nor digital tools or materials.

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. History of modern medicine. Nick Hopwood. This entry is an introduction to reference resources for the large field concerned with how, and with what consequences, the medical institutions,

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Dissertation and essay supervisors. This is a list of people who are willing to supervise Part II dissertations, Part III essays and dissertations, and MPhil essays and dissertations,

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Ancient Egyptian science. Annette Imhausen. Ancient Egypt is one of the earliest civilizations to have left written, pictorial, and archaeological records of its culture, including

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of biology. Tim Lewens. The literature on the philosophy of biology is enormous; what follows only scratches the surface. Here I have restricted myself mainly to evolutionary

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Challenge of Conservation: Colonial Natures II. 11–12 June 2024. The Challenge of Conservation conference explores how political commitments and material constraints interact in the

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Project summary. Context. This project uses new historical, oral and material methods to analyse the relation between making climates and knowing them. Its guiding principle is that the

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Calculating People. Calculating People is a reading group on current and past social sciences with a special focus on their methodological controversies. All postgraduate researchers are

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Debating Reproduction: IVF. Thursday 20 October 2011. 5pm – 6.30pm. Cambridge University Library, West Road. In association with the Books and Babies exhibition at Cambridge University

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. 20th-century life sciences. Soraya de Chadarevian. This guide focuses on genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology. It is not complete: cross-check with the bibliographies on

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Library resources in the history and philosophy of science. The aim of this guide is to show how to find out about library resources that are available in a particular subject area, and

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Gender and science. Leon Rocha. This expands considerably Paula Gould's 'Gender and Science' section, which previously appeared in the HPS Research Guide. denotes particularly important

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. History of medieval science. Rosamond McKitterick. If you want to work on the history of medieval science you need to think about whether you will want, firstly, to work specifically on

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. History of Medicine news. Hanna Rion and The Weekly Dispatch's twilight sleep crusade'. June 2023. Congratulations to Eleanor Taylor on her article in the latest issue of Medical

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Call for papers. Historical Perspectives on the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR): CFP for workshop and edited volume. Organized by Helen Anne Curry

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Workstreams. Making Climate History will engage collaborative work in four distinct workstreams together with the collection of participant histories from leading climate scientists. 1.

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. PhD placement record. Please contact the Department if you would like to update or correct the information about you on this page or if you would like to join our alumni email list. 2022.

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Advice from students. Welcome! HPS is brilliant. If we can say that, having just sat our exams, it must be true! We guarantee you will have a great time this coming year. And before you

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Latin Therapy. Latin Therapy. Latin Therapy is an informal reading group. All levels of Latin are very welcome. We meet to translate and discuss a text from the history of science,

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. History of modern mathematics. Jeremy Gray. Introduction: getting near the history of fairly modern mathematics. While much of the history of mathematics requires an understanding of the

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Bibliographical directions: ancient period. Serafina Cuomo. The first question you may ask yourself is: what do I work on? My suggestion is that you read G.E.R. Lloyd's two slim volumes

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Easter Term 2020. Departmental Seminars: Virtual Conversations. During Easter Term we are holding a special series of virtual conversations on the relevance of the history and philosophy

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. History and philosophy of psychoanalysis. John Forrester. 1. Basic bibliographical tools for work on Freud. A. Freud. The essential starting-point is the work of Freud, available in the

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Images of Science Postgraduate Seminar. Weeks 1–4, Friday at noon, Seminar Room 2. Organisers: Sachiko Kusukawa (sk111) and Daniel Margocsy (dm753). This is a reading seminar that is

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Sciences of mind in 19th-century Britain. Alison Winter. Note: this is a highly selective bibliography of an enormous literature. Madness and psychiatry. Bynum, W., Porter R., and M.

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Environmental history in HPS. Helen Macdonald. What is it? In its broadest sense, Environmental History is history focusing on the interactions that humans have – and have had – with

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Reproduction on Film: Outlaws. What do a human fly, alien pod people and talking apes from the future all have in common? They are just some of the transgressively reproductive heroes,

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Conference: Reproduction on Film. 23–25 September 2015. Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. Reproduction is one of the most persistently generative

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Medieval and early modern mathematics. Jacqueline Stedall. There is much fascinating material to be explored in the history of medieval and early modern mathematics, but perhaps the first

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Making Human Heredity: Populations and Public Health in the Postwar Era. 28–30 June 2012. Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. The postwar study of

30 Jun 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Recipes to Improve Your Love Life: Advice from the Eighteenth Century. Thursday 31 March 2016. 6.00–7.30pm. Whipple Museum, Free School Lane, Cambridge. In the eighteenth century