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18 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

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Supervision norms. Part IB. It is recommended that students have one supervision a week throughout the Part IB course, alternating between history of science (four supervisions per term)

18 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

18 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

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Harry Law. PhD student. College: Fitzwilliam. Supervisor: Richard Staley. Thesis topic: Bell Labs and the History of Complex Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence in the

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Forrester Prize. The Forrester Prize was endowed in memory of Professor John Forrester, a former Head of Department. It is awarded annually for the best performance in the dissertation

18 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

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Progress log. All PhD students must keep a progress log. This should include a record of action plans, meetings with your supervisor and advisor, and attendance at seminars, conferences,

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Nick Jardine. Emeritus Professor. Research interests: Historiography of the sciences; early-modern cosmology; history of natural history; philosophy of the sciences. Nick Jardine was the

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Subject areas. The topics of your essays and dissertation should each fall within the following specified subject areas:. MPhil subject area. Relevant Part II papers. 1. Ancient, medieval

18 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.

18 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

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Single-paper options. The Department of History and Philosophy of Science offers several Part IB and Part II papers as single-paper options. Students taking these options are welcome to

18 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

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. McConnell Prize. The Anita McConnell Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding performance on an essay or dissertation that is based on an object in the Whipple Museum's collection.

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Richard Staley. Hans Rausing Lecturer and Professor in History and Philosophy of Science. I am a faculty member both in Cambridge and at the University of Copenhagen. I complement

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Bronowski Prize. The Jacob Bronowski Prize is awarded each year for the best overall performance in the History and Philosophy of Science Part II course and, from 2018, for the best

18 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

18 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Subject areas. The topics of your Research Papers and Dissertation should each fall within one of the following specified subject areas:. Part III subject area. Relevant Part II papers.

18 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.