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14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Jeremy Schneider. Fellow of Trinity College. PhD, Princeton University. Email: js2897@cam.ac.uk. Jeremy Robin Schneider is a historian of early modern science. He received his PhD from

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Zhiyu Chen. PhD student. College: Newnham. Supervisor: Dániel Margócsy. Advisor: Mary Augusta Brazelton. Thesis topic: Translocal Geography: The Selden Map and Cross-Cultural Knowledge

14 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

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Kay Simpson. PhD student. College: Newnham. Supervisor: Nick Hopwood. Thesis topic: Chromotherapy in British design and medicine, 1870–1950. Department of History and Philosophy of

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14 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

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Staffan Müller-Wille. Professor in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. I was trained in the sciences (Geology/Palaeontology) and moved into the History and Philosophy of Science

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Marina Frasca-Spada. College Fellow. Fellow, Corpus Christi College. Research interests: Hume's Treatise of Human Nature; history of philosophy of science from Descartes to Kant; reading

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Aditya Jha. PhD student. College: Queens'. Supervisors: Hasok Chang and Neil Dewar. Thesis topic: What is Temperature, Really? Email: akj31@cam.ac.uk. Research interests. Foundations of

14 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

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Monte Cairns. PhD student. College: Peterhouse. Supervisor: Stephen John  Advisor: Anna Alexandrova. Thesis topics: Values in science, scientific classification, public health science.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Katy Duncan. PhD student. College: Newnham. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Advisor: Simon Schaffer. Thesis: Influence, Instrument and Atmospheric Electricity (1850-1930). Research interests:

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Xinyi Wen. Research Project. The Doctrine of Signatures in Early Modern Medical Practice. Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship 221115. A walnut looks like the brain, so it can heal brain

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Eoin Carter. PhD student. College: Darwin. Supervisor: Jim Secord. Thesis topic: Radical Politics and Popular Science in Britain, 1815–48. Summary. My research explores the relationship

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Dmitriy Myelnikov. Teaching Associate. Research interests. History of medicine and the life sciences in the twentieth century, especially genetics, molecular biology, microbiology;

14 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

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Myesha Jemison. PhD student. College: Trinity. Supervisor: Richard Staley. Advisor: Charu Singh. Thesis topic: Building Credibility: The Story of the Behavioural Dynamics Institute,

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Miles Kempton. PhD student. College: Robinson. Supervisor: Nick Hopwood. Thesis topic: London Zoo, Television, and Primate Ethology: From the Launch of ITV to The Naked Ape.

14 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.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Rhianna Elliott. PhD student. PhD research funded by a Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship. College: Newnham. Supervisors: Prof Lauren Kassell; Prof Daniel Margocsy. Advisor: Dr Rebecca

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Andreas Sommer. Research Associate. Research. History of the human sciences and medicine; historiographies of science and the occult; scientific naturalism; William James. I'm interested

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Yijie Huang. PhD student. College: St Catharine's. Supervisor: Lauren Kassell and Dániel Margócsy (advisor). Thesis title: The Clock and the Hand: Taking the Pulse in English Medicine,

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Simon Mitton. College Fellow. Life Fellow, St Edmund's College. Fellow Royal Astronomical Society; Fellow Geological Society of London; Fellow Royal Historical Society. Member

14 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

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Industrial Patronage and the Cold War University. Why did industry and academia develop a closer financial relationship during the Cold War? Historians have provided one compelling answer

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Benjamin Chin-Yee. PhD student. College: King's. Supervisor: Jacob Stegenga. Advisor: Stephen John. Thesis topic. My thesis focuses on the philosophy of cancer medicine, specifically

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14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Computing information. IT facilities in and around the Department. Whipple Library. There are eight PCs in the Whipple Library, including three with full access to Microsoft Office

15 Jul 2024: Collectively, these findings indicate that naked mole-rats possess a robust and hard-to-penetrate gastrointestinal barrier, that is resistant to environmental and endogenous irritants.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Adrià Segarra. PhD student. College: St John's. Supervisor: Jacob Stegenga. Advisor: Alexander Bird. Thesis topic: A Hybrid Theory of Induction. Research interests: Induction, Evidence

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Philosophy of Science in Cambridge. Philosophy of Science. Cambridge has a long tradition of seminal work in the philosophy of science, stretching back as far as William Whewell in the

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Anne Secord. Affiliated Scholar. Research interests: Practices of natural history; history of nineteenth-century popular science, science education, and working-class engagement with

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Sachiko Kusukawa. College Teaching Officer. Tutor and Fellow in the History and Philosophy of Science, Trinity College. Research interests: History of science, cultural and intellectual

14 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. Part IB papers. Part II HPS papers. Part II BBS papers. 2022–. Major Subject in

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Obituary: Peter Lipton. Professor Peter Lipton (9 October 1954 – 25 November 2007). Peter Lipton, the first Hans Rausing Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science, and

14 Jul 2024: Detection of endogenous magnetic nanoparticles with a TMR sensor. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS A, 368: Art.

15 Jul 2024: Galectin-3, a novel endogenous TREM2 ligand, detrimentally regulates inflammatory response in Alzheimer's disease.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part IB. The Part IB course in History and Philosophy of Science offers a wide-ranging overview of the nature of science and its place in society. The course explores the historical,

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Grace Field. PhD student. College: Trinity Hall. Supervisors: Hasok Chang and Jeremy Butterfield. Thesis topic: Building Black Holes: Analogue experiments and analogical reasoning.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Sheryl Wombell. PhD student. College: Wolfson. Supervisors: Professor Emma Spary, Professor Lauren Kassell. Thesis topic: Navigating health and healing in a seventeenth-century network of

14 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

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Silvia Maria Marchiori. PhD student. College: Trinity. Supervisor: Dániel Margócsy. Advisor: Lauren Kassell. Thesis topic: The reception of Cornelius Celsus' De medicina from the Middle

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Scott Partington. PhD student. College: Queens'. Supervisor: Marta Halina. Thesis topic: The origins and emergence of norms. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Study History

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Oscar Westerblad. PhD student. College: Queens'. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Thesis topic: Formulating a pragmatist account of scientific understanding. Department of History and Philosophy

15 Jul 2024: Single-molecule analysis of endogenous β-actin mRNA trafficking reveals a mechanism for compartmentalized mRNA localization in axons.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Contingency in the History and Philosophy of Science. How can contingent historical cases be used in support of normative philosophical claims? Contingency often appears as a key sticking

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Timetable for Lent Term 2024. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. 9am. 10am. Part III & MPhil Discussion Seminar (10.00–11.30). Part III & MPhil Discussion Seminar

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Timetable for Easter Term 2024. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. 9am. 10am. 11am. 12noon. 1pm. 2pm. 3pm. 4pm. 5pm. Weeks 1–3:. IB: Philosophy of Biology. Week 4:. IB:

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14 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