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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. 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

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. generation.jpeg. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Study History and Philosophy of Science. Library and Museum. Research. 2024 University of Cambridge.

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

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Welfare. The information and links on this page have been gathered together to provide staff and students with a one-stop-shop for all matters concerned with welfare. On this page you

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. 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. 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

15 Jul 2024: Selection of cervical keratinocytes containing integrated HPV16 associates with episome loss and an endogenous antiviral response.

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. 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. 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. Tom McClelland. Teaching Associate in Philosophy of Science. I recently joined HPS after three years at the Faculty of Philosophy. Before that I held posts at the universities of Warwick,

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. Medical Publishers, Obscenity Law and the Business of Sexual Knowledge in Victorian Britain. Britain's production of books on all branches of medicine, including volumes that described

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Zsuzsanna Ihar. Will be starting RCC Landhaus Fellowship in October, 2024. PhD student. College: Churchill. Supervisor: Prof. Helen Anne Curry & Prof. Richard Staley. Thesis topic:

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. The Darwin Correspondence Project. The Darwin Correspondence Project was an independently funded research team, jointly managed by Cambridge University Library and the American Council of

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Ruward Mulder. PhD researcher. College: Trinity. Supervisor: Jeremy Butterfield. Advisor: Hasok Chang. Thesis topic: Towards conceptual clarity about the use of functional realism to

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

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

24 May 2021: Peter Atkinson, Head of External Innovation, Neurology Business Group at Eisai, explained why they were so keen to be involved: “Companies have been trying to harness endogenous clearance pathways for years

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tools in Materials Research. The science of materials has contributed to changes in our civilization as pervasive as they are profound. The ways we travel, communicate, build buildings,

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Sophia Crüwell. PhD student . College: St John's. Supervisor: Jacob Stegenga. Thesis topic: A crisis without replication: Replication, the current crisis in psychology, and the Open

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:

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Pamela Mackenzie. Postdoctoral Researcher. Dr Pamela Mackenzie is a SSHRC-funded Postdoctoral Researcher and visiting scholar in the History and Philosophy of Science Department, working

15 Jul 2024: Front Immunol. 2017 Mar 17;8:284. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2017.00284</span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><i>Synthetic mimetics of the endogenous gastrointestinal nanomineral: Silent constructs ... Nanomedicine. 2017 Feb;13(2):619-630. doi:

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Obituary: John Forrester. Professor John Forrester (25 August 1949 – 24 November 2015). John Forrester, Professor in the Department of History of Philosophy of Science, which he joined

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Marabel Riesmeier. PhD student. College: King's. Supervisor: Hasok Chang. Advisor: Anna Alexandrova. Thesis topic: How chemicals matter: the ontology of chemical substance. Research

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. On the origins of Cambridge HPS: A 50th anniversary reflection. Joshua Nall, August 2022. On 1 August 1972, the University of Cambridge welcomed a new department: History and Philosophy

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Frequently asked questions. On this page:. Applying. When should I apply? We will accept applications from 3 September 2024 for admission in October 2025. The deadline for applications is

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Arsham Nejad Kourki. PhD student. College: Clare. Supervisor: Tim Lewens. Thesis topic: The origins of organismal complexity: from animals to societies. Department of History and

23 Feb 2024: Key Research Questions. How do cells distinguish pathogenic viral nucleic acids from non-pathogenic endogenous nucleic acids? ... Pathogenic viral and non-pathogenic endogenous nucleic acids are often difficult to distinguish.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Habib Prize. The Habib Prize is awarded each year for the best performance in the essay component of the MPhil course in Health, Medicine and Society. Winners. 2023: Charlotte Wade. 2022:

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. How to find the Department. The Department of History and Philosophy of Science is on Free School Lane. This is in the centre of Cambridge, between Pembroke Street and Bene't Street. The

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Olesya Bondarenko. PhD student. College: St John's. Supervisors: Tim Lewens, Anna Alexandrova. Thesis: Tempering the Ambition of Social Science Genomics: Causation, Explanation, and

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Sara Caputo. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. Biography. Sara Caputo's general areas of interest are eighteenth- and nineteenth-century transnational maritime history, British and

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Ahmad Elabbar. PhD student. College: St Catharine's. Supervisor: Stephen John and Tim Lewens (advisor). Thesis topic: Justice as an ideal for climate assessment: A study of the

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Key dates and deadlines. Michaelmas Term 2023. 4 October. Meeting for MPhil students at 2pm. 30 October. Submit topic form for Essay 1. 10 November. Last date for changing topic of Essay 1

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Working with human participants: ethical approval and data protection. If you are planning to collect data from human participants (for example, by conducting interviews or administering

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Part III. The Department's Part III course is conducted by means of supervisions and seminars. Students are also encouraged to attend some of the wide range of relevant lectures offered

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Frequently asked questions. When can I study History and Philosophy of Science? Natural Sciences Tripos: You can choose HPS as one of your three Part IB subjects and then as your

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Philipp Spillmann. PhD student. College: Downing College. Supervisor: Tim Lewens and Marta Halina. Thesis topic: Philosophy of Astrobiology. Tentative title: Life in the Shadows: The N =

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

15 Jul 2024: Gene expression and chromatin accessibility will be compared for the donor limb cells in their endogenous vs.

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Podcasts. A selection of podcasts featuring members of the Department. Nick Hopwood, 'History is Always Happening Now', Made the Same Way. 17 February 2023. Nick Hopwood appears on a

14 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)

14 Jul 2024: Search site. Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Lipton Prize. The Peter Lipton Prize was endowed in memory of Professor Peter Lipton, a former Head of Department. It is awarded each year for the best overall performance in the History