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Sebastian Rodriguez Duque (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).
Wednesday 18 March 2026, 13:00-14:30
Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
'Measure once, cut twice': values and validity in youth mental health measurement
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Book symposium on Matteo Vagelli's 'Reconsidering Historical Epistemology: French and Anglophone Styles in History and Philosophy of Science'
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
AI revolution! At whose cost? Towards environmental AI ethics
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A conceptual framework for reactivity in social scientific measurement
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Kuhn and Feyerabend on pluralism, education and history
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The Apgar score, construct realizations, and the scale of clinical judgments
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The myth of the naΓ―ve empiricist
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Does artificial creativity require artificial consciousness?
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Is historical mathematics largely true?
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Do mathematical explanations impose a necessity on the natural world?
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Hacks and explanations via program execution
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The APGAR score, construct realizations, and the scale of clinical judgments
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CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
But what is 'performativity of science'?
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The pragmatic vindication of warranted belief
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Aristotle on what geometry is about
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Precision and active knowledge: measuring the fundamental physical constants, 1967β2018
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The relationship between Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics: the irregular case
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Progress is plural because science is social
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Creativity for the information age: making up minds and machines in the United States and the Soviet Union
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Trust in the fallible: lessons from uncertainty management in the environmental sciences
Coffee with Scientists
Group selection and Ronald Fisher
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Title to be confirmed
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Values in measurement: alternatives to democratic alignment in economic inequality metrics
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Trustworthiness, moral epistemic-duties, and public health guidance: the case of wildfire smoke
Coffee with Scientists
The evolution of sentience
Cabinet of Natural History
Ginger as storied matter: decolonisation and display in Amgueddfa Cymru's Economic Botany collection
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A domino theory of disease
Cabinet of Natural History
The voyage of the sheep from Tibet: animal breeding in the 18th-century French Empire
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Symposium: 'Patient-Centered Measurement' (2024)
Cabinet of Natural History
The first plants changed the planet and they used mud to do it
Cabinet of Natural History
'Indeed it is the thing itself': women and visual culture in the Earth Sciences, 1813β1850
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Is science 'Western' science?
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Examining the possibility of AI Affect in reinforcement learning systems
Cabinet of Natural History
'Where stones remained silent, plants spoke': practising historical biogeography in 19th-century Egypt
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Establishing a scientific fact from complex evidence: the earth's variable rotation
Cabinet of Natural History
Re-enacting past experiments: how and why
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Book symposium: The Edge of Sentience
Cabinet of Natural History
A plague from on high? Comets, disease and meteorology in late medieval England
Cabinet of Natural History
Comets in medieval Arabic astronomical and historical treatise
Cabinet of Natural History
The cannibalized print: deconstructing Charles Estienne's anatomical woodcut illustrations in De dissectione (1545)
Cabinet of Natural History
Jungius and Leibniz on textiles and texture in the 17th century
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Inferring from negative analogies: lessons on analogical reasoning from clinical medical practice
Cabinet of Natural History
Instructions for race-making: skull collecting at Edinburgh University's Natural History Museum
Cabinet of Natural History
Medical diagnoses through geomancy in medieval and early modern Europe
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Is AI generated art really art?
Cabinet of Natural History
Empire, indigenous knowledge and the practice of recording and classifying the plants of New Zealand, 1769β1838
Cabinet of Natural History
Planetary microbes: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, the agency and the politics of microbes, 1840sβ1850s
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Limit objects and emergence
Cabinet of Natural History
The Pomeranian Cabinet of Philipp Hainhofer
Cabinet of Natural History
Fashion in bloom: exploring the presence of artificial flowers in the credit records of an 18th-century French fashion merchant
Cabinet of Natural History
Re-enacting past experiments: how and why
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
When the data cannot speak clearly: Covid-19 and minoritised groups
Cabinet of Natural History
A backwards book? Authorship, eugenics, and the evolution of R.A. Fisher's The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
Cabinet of Natural History
Pierre Gassendi and monocular vision
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Unifying the notion of objectivity
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What explainable AI can learn from philosophy of science
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The case of Ignaz Semmelweis revisited: a plea for Popperian science
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Can anyone be a target of discrimination? Lessons from philosophy of science and work on human kinds
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Why we shouldn't democratise science
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
In defence of dimensions
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The doctor who wasn't there: technology, history, and the limits of telehealth
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Bayesian explanationism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reading modern hands: identity and human types from palmistry to genetics
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Not for me: on the external function of guilt
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Norms are like colours: naturalism and the constitutively perspectival
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Ways of branchmaking
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Can present-day philosophers make scientific contributions? From philosophy in science to conceptual and theoretical thinking in science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A look back at 'Biometrician Versus Mendelian: A Controversy and its Explanation' (1974)
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Laws unconstrained: against minimal primitivism about laws of nature
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Expertise or perspectives in dialogue? The role of lived experience in the mental health context
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CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Realism and technocracy: a working hypothesis
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
How medical data infrastructures materialize oppression
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rationalizing discrimination
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Celebrating an anniversary in the history of science
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CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The causal structure of cultural domination
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
What can Covid modelling during the pandemic teach us about public participation in science?
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Live, and let live: medical recipes and technique of the socialized self across the Ming-Qing transition
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Linguistic discrimination, processing fluency, and the foreign language effect in science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Against presence empiricism
Early Science and Medicine
'Description, figure and colour combined': in search of perfection in zoological representation, c. 1820β1850
Cabinet of Natural History
Domestic frontispieces and the knowledge of the early modern home, 1600β1750
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Identifying future-proof science
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CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Imagination and mathematics in economic modelling
Cabinet of Natural History
Rebuilding collections and reconstructing science: using materiality of the du Bois Herbarium to understand early modern botany
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Knowledge in science and beyond: historiographical challenges and the case of colour history
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The division of cognitive labor and the structure of interdisciplinary problems
Cabinet of Natural History
From Gilead to Peru: balsam in late Renaissance medicine and alchemy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A view of technological change through the magic lantern in Japan
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Perceptual wronging and perceptual injustice
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Population biology and the implicit scientific backing of the 'Human Biodiversity' movement
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Perceived inequality and the strive for standardization
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The philosophical significance of the Representational Theory of Measurement: RTM as semantic foundations
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
'Put on my tomb: this is what she was trying for': the extraordinary life of Margaret Masterman
Cabinet of Natural History
Re-enacting past experiments: how and why
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Coloniality, global health, and reparations
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Worries about philosopher experts
Cabinet of Natural History
'Oute of araby cometh the best': imported jewels, Arabic science and crusading nostalgia in medieval English lapidary traditions
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Science in crisis? Reproducibility and the philosophy of science
Cabinet of Natural History
The household of Carl Linnaeus: organisation and performative practices
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Medical heritage as cultural property: pan-African politics and global IP precedents in the 1960s and 1970s
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CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Learning from sociological case studies
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'I am rhapsodic man': Alexander von Humboldt in search of himself
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Epistemic engagement, aesthetic value and scientific practice
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Twentieth Century Think Tank
Scientific naturalism and the modern empirical occult: historiographical and practical issues
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Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The good news about killing people
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
On pluralism in psychiatry
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Non-Han bodies: anthropology, visuality and biopower in China's southwest borderland during the second Sino-Japanese War (1937β1945)
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The search for invertebrate consciousness
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Pick your poison: insecticides and locust control in colonial Kenya
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Creativity and AI
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How atoms became real
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The tempo of modernity: rethinking the history of modern time
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Nonhuman episodic memory, scepticism and psychological kinds
Coffee with Scientists
Science communication's 'missing masses': scale and symmetry in the study of science communication
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Directed theories of time and the conventionality of simultaneity
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Coffee with Scientists
1 million correlations: steps towards reproducible psychological science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cooperative division of cognitive labour: the social epistemology of photosynthesis research
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Pluralism about actual causation
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Science and the approximation account of knowledge
Twentieth Century Think Tank
'The Ineradicable Eliza Effect and Its Dangers': Weizenbaum, Pygmalion and the implications of gendering AI
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The replication crisis and philosophy
Coffee with Scientists
What works in wildlife conservation? Assessing the evidence to save the planet
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The adoption of Hindu-Arabic numerals in England and Italy, a comparative perspective (13thβ16th centuries)
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
An appraisal of scientific reasoning as therapy in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
CRISPR gene-drive and the war against malaria β the evolutionary ABCs
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The science of childhood: postcolonial development in India, 1950s
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Theories of consciousness and animal minds: a modest theoretical proposal
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
On validators for psychiatric categories
Coffee with Scientists
Pluralism and monism in design fixation research
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Making a name in mid-century mathematics: individuals, institutions and the open secret of Nicolas Bourbaki
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
From Kepler's optics to Spinoza's politics: Descartes' turn to the passions
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Does science progress?
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Thinking/researching/teaching race, genetics and intelligence in HPS and STS
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Early modern history of data and epistemology of form
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Du Bois' plan for scientific inquiry
Twentieth Century Think Tank
How wide and how tall? Genome Wide Association Studies in debate, from height to educational attainment and back
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Follow the measures: conceptualization, measurement and interdisciplinarity in the science of empathy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The instrument of science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rethinking industrial patronage of academic research in the early Cold War
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The view from here, there and nowhere? Situating the observer in the planetarium and in the solar system
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
On a central puzzle in philosophical catoptrics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
V-Dem: measuring democracy
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A surprising epistemic advantage of accommodation over prediction
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
History of S&T need an oil bath: oil, scarcity and technoscience in the 1970s
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Making difference: queer activism and anthropological theory
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Two types of success: epistemic exchange and societal impact in extra-academic research collaborations
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Beyond correspondence: realism for realistic people
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Beauty, truth and understanding
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Past unlimited: the canal of Zabita Khan
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A political history of apolitical science
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Spatial experience: more than mere structure
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Patient reported outcome measures are different
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Non-literal model interpretations
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Bathing, bloodletting and bed-rest in the high medieval monastery
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Constructing the field: power, persona and paper tools
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Negotiating history: contingency, canonicity and case studies
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Newton's methodology meets Humean supervenience about laws of nature
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Explanatory directionality
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Heaven and Earth are within one's grasp: the healer's body-as-technology in classical Chinese medicine
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Decolonising the history of science curriculum
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The thaw in the Pole: Cold War science and showcasing at the Siberian science-city and Antarctic expeditions (1955β1964)
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The C theory of time
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Creating citizen history of science: science, fiction and the future of the 20th century
Twentieth Century Think Tank
'The American soldier' in Jerusalem: on measurement, travel and translation
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CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Time-asymmetry in thermal physics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Being human, being Homo sapiens
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Memory: what is it good for?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Probabilistic actual causation
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Anticipations of the ocean: technological futures of the Cold War ocean
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Temporal binding and the idea of a 'sense of agency': a critical examination
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Material substitutions in historical perspective: the cases of the British Substitutes and Vegetable Drugs Committees during World War Two
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Reconciling the opposing effects of neurobiological evidence on criminal sentencing judgments
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Principia and the air-pump: the social and political roots of Newton's science
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A city of future past: urban planning and urban construction in northeast China after the Communist Revolution
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Leibniz, Mach and the C-Series
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Explanations for medical artificial intelligence
Twentieth Century Think Tank
How US science moved west: Boulder, Colorado and the development of US space sciences in mid-20th century America
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Many Molyneux Questions
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Before Trump: the neoliberalβilliberal alliance of the IMF and WTO with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
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CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Constructing the organism in the age of abstraction
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What can scientific realists think about scientific method(s)?
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Science, scientific method and rationality: Nehru's engagement with Ayurveda
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Giant Power: energy technology and the long history of post-truth
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CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A new way to defend the value free ideal for science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Creatures of Cain: the hunt for human nature in Cold War America
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Understanding protein function through multiple models of structure: barriers to integration
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Explaining the recent 'hiatus' in global warming: models, measurement and media
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Number, probability and community: the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern data model, Monte Carlo simulations and counterfactual futures in cricket
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Guard against temptation: team reasoning and the role of intentions in exercising willpower
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Statistical biases in peer review
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
How archaeologists resolve the inductive risk argument
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Beyond truth-as-correspondence: realism for realistic people
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Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Poison trials, panaceas and proof: debates about testing and testimony in early modern European medicine
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The interpretation of black hole solutions in general relativity
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Disaggregating goods
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Barnum, Bache and Poe: the forging of science in the Antebellum US
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The homelands of the plague: Soviet disease ecology in Central Asia, 1920sβ1950s
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Yikes! Why did past-me say he'd give a talk on future discounting?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Machine learning, social learning and self-driving cars
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
No interpretation of probability
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Sugar, science and the history of capitalism
Twentieth Century Think Tank
People's vital minimum: canteens and nutrition science in industrial China
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Dr Watson: the impending automation of medical diagnosis and treatment
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Modelling at the border of experimental and theoretical practice in physics
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Even observables change in Hamiltonian general relativity
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Making sense of art and science
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Ether: the multiple lives of a resilient concept
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What's the point of Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World?
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Representing and explaining: the eikonic conception of explanation
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Before the big bang of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA): 250 years of astronomy in South Africa
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Quantum Bayesianism: the ineffable reality behind 'participatory realism'
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A bold hypothesis about pursuit
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The structure of structure: how Kuhn establishes that science requires historical explanation
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Reviving analytical philosophy of history
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reforming Naples/how to use a network: Vesuvius and savants in the two kingdoms of Sicily
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Neuro-empire: rise of a medical-scientific discipline in modern Japan
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Causal decision theory and tragic evidence: Death in Damascus revisited
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Yet another unity of science? Latin American challenges to history, philosophy and social studies of scientific knowledge
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
'The battle is on': Lakatos, Feyerabend and the student protests
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A contagious cause: the search for cancer viruses and the growth of American biomedicine
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The principle of stability
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Genres of prediction: astrology between Sanskrit and Hindi print in colonial north India
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A struggle for the Soviet future: the birth of scientific forecasting in the Soviet Union
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The perils of p-hacking and the promise of pre-analysis plans
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What is quantum theory actually telling us about the world? The 'relational' interpretation
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Twentieth Century Think Tank
German Γ©migrΓ© scientists and engineers and aeronautics in India
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Frogs in space: physiological research into metric relationships and laws of nature
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Listening to the chirps: how do the LIGO results test general relativity?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific habits circa 1900
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The Theory Theory 2.0: Bayesian models, causal inference and cognitive development
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Listening to scientists' stories: using the British Library's 'An Oral History of British Science' archive
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
How can we homologize holobionts, and whose lineage matters?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The materials for trust-building in expertise
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Shifting formats, changing priorities in the modern Chinese materia medica genre: from Zhao Yuhuang's single items to drugs in acupuncture channels
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Affine balance: algebraic spacetime functionalism as a guide to identifying spacetime
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Climate in word and image: science and the Austrian idea
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Why the priority rule does not exist
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The gifts of Athena revisited: protectionism, regulation and the British Industrial Revolution, 1700β1800
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The Anthropocene seen by the Anopheles: fighting malarial mosquitoes with chemicals in modern China, 1910sβ1960s
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A biologically informed hylomorphism
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Disappearing big cats and multiplying man-eaters in the Indian Anthropocene
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Ecological factors of attraction and causal explanation in cultural attractor theory
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Animal sentience and human values
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Towards a more realistic subjective decision theory
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
On reasonable doubt
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Pragmatist coherence as the source of truth and reality
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Emblematic alchemy: Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens (1617/18)
Twentieth Century Think Tank
'The Grammar of the Semi-Exact Sciences': Norbert Wiener in India, 1955β1956
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Delusional cognition as explanation
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Only predict? Conscious experience, and the scope and limits of predictive processing
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The greening alliance: environment, development and the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Why common cause explanation is not the main business of historical reconstruction
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Garbage in, garbage out? A history of representations of computers in popular media
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Wishful speaking: science, truth and dictatorship
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Imaging the cytoskeleton β re-defining a biological entity with fluorescent antibodies
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Assessing scientific theories
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Eugenic sterilization in California: from demographic analysis to digital storytelling
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Newton's laws and epistemic amplification
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The hubris of youth? Oxford, Cambridge and the Arctic, c.1920β1940
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A science in translation: homoeopathy in colonial Bengal
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What makes econophysics distinctive?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Embodied and situated moods
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Delusional cognition as explanation
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Mechanisms and natural kinds
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A controlled environment: phytotrons, Cold War life science, and the making of the experimental plant
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Risk aversion and the long run
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Some sociological aspects of the detection of gravitational waves
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Comparative uncertainties: comparing comparisons in anthropology and animal behaviour science
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Belief and statistical evidence
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Patterning within the disturbance of coherence': the practical work of measuring and classifying infant disorganised attachment
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Using organic chemistry to probe the limits of interventionism
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Images as artefacts: film, photography and repatriation in Kenya
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
The emergence of bargaining inequity
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The inconsistency of quantum electrodynamics: a history
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The pre-history of peer review: refereeing practices at the Royal Society
Coffee with Scientists
How to study fire
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Why genetics succeeds: an epistemology of scientific practice
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Unveiling the world? Aerial photographs and the social sciences in interwar France
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
No general structure
Coffee with Scientists
The technological singularity: superintelligent machines and the future of humanity
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Two sovereign masters: pain, pleasure and utility from Bentham to Skinner
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
What's nu? Maxwell's electrical metrology and the electromagnetic theory of light reappraised
Coffee with Scientists
How should scientists quantify academic value?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The science of wishing: Francis Bacon and the magical optative
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Builders of the vision
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Hierarchical transition modes of biological systems are evolvable
Coffee with Scientists
Data-driven versus hypothesis-driven science
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Unifying theories: some lessons from the Cartwright-Smith exchange
Coffee with Scientists
The second messenger concept β how the discovery of cyclic AMP dominated cell biology for 60 years
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reading Rivière in early modern England: tracing early modern epistemic itineraries
Twentieth Century Think Tank
'A day of comparatively small things': spatial anxiety in the high British Empire
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Prediction and medicine
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cunning, killer orchids
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Entangled histories: enactivism, representationalism and Frederic Bartlett
Coffee with Scientists
Did the earth sciences have a 20th-century revolution?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Was geology the first science to inject history into the natural world?
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Brainwashing the cybernetic subject: The Ipcress File and fantasies of interrogation in the 1960s
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Explanatory abstractions
Coffee with Scientists
Are we tackling the causes of global warming effectively?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Translating embodied skill: the politics of writing about making in the early modern period
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Measurement error and the problem of quantity individuation
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Visual tools in seventeenth-century medical education
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The impact of machines
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The problem of confirmation in the Everett interpretation
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Extracting the exotic: global chymical medicine in the seventeenth century
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
CSER and the Leverhulme CFI: how, what and where next
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Travelling texts: notes on early modern geography and Hebraism
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Does time seem to pass?
Coffee with Scientists
The Scharnhorst Effect: faster-than-light propagation and causality in the Casimir vacuum
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Curing diseases and exchanging knowledge: sixteenth-century physicians and their female patients
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
On geometrical concepts, proofs and understanding in pure and applied mathematics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Negotiating 'applied science' in the early 1930s: new media, new discourses, new ideology
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Three junctures of science and democracy: knowledge, value and policy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Electricity and crystallography: the history and philosophy of Curie's Principle
Coffee with Scientists
Behavioural flexibility in birds and beyond
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Magic bullets
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Absolute measures of effectiveness
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Winston's Gestapo': Churchill, the Royal Society and scientific secrecy before the Bomb
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Imprecise credences and the probabilistic liar
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Patents, powders, profits: the background to and legal significance of the patent infringement trial Nobel's Explosives Co. v Anderson (1894)
Coffee with Scientists
A 21st-century biologist looks at Sir Isaac Newton
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Questions and questionnaires: knowledge, evidences and rituals of speaking in the early modern period
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Simulating scientific merit dynamics
Coffee with Scientists
Making archaeological knowledge
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How archaeological evidence bites back: putting old data to work in new ways
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Expecting misleading evidence
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
To explain the Scientific Revolution by means of comparison
β οΈ Special Joint Needham Research Institute and HPS Seminar
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
On the movements and value of research data
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The argument from the good lot: unconceived alternatives and 20th-century genetics
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Idealization, abstraction and the ontic view of explanation
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Filming Fore, shooting scientists: medical research and documentary film
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Intolerant bodies: on biological individuality and writing with scientists
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
There is no problem of interpersonal comparisons
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The beauty of science without the science of beauty
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
International Paretianism: a palatable response to climate change?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Log books and the law of storms: maritime meteorology and the British Admiralty in the 19th century
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Bypassing the brave new world: reporting transgenic mice in the early 1980s
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
From the biological self to psychological self
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Mendel the fraud? A social history of truth in genetics
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The 'Aeroplane Gaze': looking up in 1909
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
From craft to mass production? Design, manufacture and patents for artificial limbs, 1890β1925
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Performing and mediating science on television
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The metaphysics of race: distinctions without any differences
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The shifting economies of measurement uncertainty
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Psychometric validation as theory avoidance
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Towards a history of interactivity (through interactive objects)
Twentieth Century Think Tank
The epidemiologist as culture hero: visualising humanity in the age of 'the next pandemic'
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Emergent chance (jointly authored with Marcus Pivato)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The enigma of environmentalism: the power of knowledge and the power of memory
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Pragmatism and the possibility of (no) naturalistic metaphysics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cause, causatives and theories of causation
Twentieth Century Think Tank
'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' β the myth of the mad scientist in early horror films
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Does the missing fundamental require an inferentialist explanation?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The rationality of science in relation to its history
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Kinds and degrees of (scientific) understanding
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Colour me alchemical, or: form, execution and function in alchemical illustrations
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Poster display tactics as photographic arguments
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The subterranean influence of pragmatism on the Vienna Circle: Peirce, Ramsey, Wittgenstein
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
One-seed, two-seed, three-seed? Reassessing ancient theories of generation
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Causation and prediction in epidemiology
Cabinet of Natural History
Jane Squire's early modern adventures: 'I see not why I should confine myself to needles, cards, and dice'
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Not-knowing about the aetiology of cervical cancer: a puzzle about absence of evidence
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Indecent science: religion, science and movie censorship, 1930β1968
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Interventionist causation and the placement problem
Cabinet of Natural History
Collecting natural history: Sloane's 'Vegetable Substances'
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Age of iron, age of gold: the Thirty Years War, the German reformed diaspora, and the golden age of the Dutch universities
Cabinet of Natural History
W.B. Carpenter and the wonder of microscopy
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Visual STS
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Things don't fall apart: persistence and functional explanation in social science
Cabinet of Natural History
Natural history on the move: John Ray's continental travels, 1663β1666
Cabinet of Natural History
The role of instruments in exploration: the RGS and its explorers, c.1830β1900
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
New perspectives on the Great Exhibition
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Brownian motion pictures
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Farewell to content
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Meso-science and modernism: work at the Royal Society Mond Laboratory, 1933β1972
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Causation as a thermodynamic phenomenon
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Pregnancy testing before DIY: rethinking the patient-doctor-laboratory relationship
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Accuracy-first epistemology
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Inclusive fitness, group selection and human sociality
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
There are mechanisms β and then there are mechanisms
Twentieth Century Think Tank
A sociology of algorithms: high-frequency trading and the shaping of markets
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Why do societies work? Persistence and functional explanation
β οΈ POSTPONED
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Facing facts: the great Tichborne trials and the rise of modern visual evidence
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The special science dilemma and how culture solves it
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'For the sake of ornament': iconography in Tycho Brahe's Astronomiae instauratae mechanica
Twentieth Century Think Tank
X-rayed maize and mutant marigolds: a history of early plant biotechnologies
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The scientific method: ignorance, uncertainty, doubt, failure...
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How trees defy gravity: conceptual and historical remarks on the theory of the ascent of sap
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Nomic truth approximation by revising models and postulates in the light of increasing evidence
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Generic speech acts and social kinds
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Triangulation of phenomena
Early Science and Medicine
From the individual to the collective: changing ideas of complexion in the Italian health-advice literature of the long 16th century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Harrisonomastix: dismantling the connection between experimental religion and experimental science in early modern England
Twentieth Century Think Tank
'The monster'? The British popular press and nuclear culture, 1945β1960s
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Infinitesimal probabilities
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
From reductionism towards integration: systems biology as a scientific social movement
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Science and empire: the view from Beijing, c. 1700
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Inference to the best explanation and paradigms
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Two views of linguistic science and its data
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Acid fallout: the 1980s US scientific and political debates on the atmospheric transport of sulphur dioxide
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
How we manage to manage 'knowledge': using computational infrastructures in semantic systems biology
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Human nature: from theory to practice
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Demotic mathematics and modernism's shipwrecked poetics of insurance
Twentieth Century Think Tank
Framing the nuclear: the psychology of British governmental nuclear decision making
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The epistemic innocence project
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Information channels and biomarkers of disease
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Propensities and pragmatism
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
The multiple inventions of transgenic mice
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
The clinic of the birth: obstetric ultrasound, medical innovation and the clinico-anatomical project
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A California Yankee in King Arthur's Court (with apologies to Mark Twain), or why a molecular neurobiologist landed in HPS
β οΈ Please note change of date
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The plurality of priority
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'VD is no camp': creating and communicating knowledge about same-sex venereal disease transmission in the Anglo-American world, c.1939β1984
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Towards a unified model of a human being
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The love of plants: from love to sex in the history of botany
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
On the evolutionary origins of morality
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Causal assessment and the question of stability
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Gestalt switches in the prize paper: inspiration for, but not an instance of, chaos
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Talking to our selves: reflection, scepticism and agency
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The topology of intertheoretic reduction
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Armchair science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'A trip to Mars by aeroplane': genres of public astronomy and the practice of astrophysics in the fin de siècle
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Individual risk: does it exist?
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A processual perspective on biology
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Epistemic humility
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The problem of inductive risk and the ethics of communication
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Two views on the relation between causality and probability
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Nature concocts and expels': recovery from illness in early modern England, 1580β1720
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Knowing and understanding
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Controversy, mistrust, even witchcraft: the failure of cancer therapy with neutrons
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Isaac Newton's scientific method
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Freud, Russell and Wittgenstein: 'therapeutic positivism', psychoanalysis and the origins of analytic philosophy in Cambridge
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The social epistemology of the International Panel on Climate Change
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Charles Darwin and the margins between flora and fauna in the 1870s: the case of insectivorous plants
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
How autonomous are social scientific explanations?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Herophilus of Chalcedon on the soul and the nervous system
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Does psychological knowledge presuppose self-knowledge? A Kantian perspective
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Kepler's Temple of Urania in the light of Hebenstreit's Idyll
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Real change happens in general relativity, even in Hamiltonian form
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
New light on Descartes's philosophical starting-point: an unknown manuscript of the Rules for the Direction of the Mind
HPS History Workshop
Governing for happiness: Mark Abrams, the Central Statistical Office and the development of subjective social indicators
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Winchgenstein and functional explanation
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Selection and maximization
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Domain specificity in protein classification: a problem for monism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
What pluralism could be and might do
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Dysfunction and biological variation: a problem for SE accounts of functions
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Poet of progress: serendipity and the search for Erasmus Darwin
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The problem of double-counting evidence illustrated by climate science
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Generatio: medieval debates about procreation, heredity and 'bioethics'
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
What the small print in the early medieval penitentials tells us about abortion
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Modality in decision theory
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The knowledge practices of Fortune magazine: leadership, numeracy and poetry, 1930β1945
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Lanford's theorem and the emergence of irreversibility
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Infertility β the making of a modern experience, Germany 1870β1930
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Aesthetics in science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Ingenuity in the gallery
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Altruism and relatedness in microbial populations
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
A Humean alternative on what there is
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reasoning about well-being: between psychometrics and philosophy
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
The meaning of 'kilogram'
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Geographies of knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia, c.800β200 BC
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
Catharine Cockburn on substantival space: a 'new' 18th-century solution
CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar
All possible perspectives: a defence of Eddington's selective subjectivism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The sciences of subjectivity
β οΈ Special seminar: please note this will be held on a Wednesday
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Why did Darwin change his mind about sex ratio?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Urban modernity: reconsidering Paris from 1852 to 1914
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Colonial classification
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Lucretian pessimism' or, what was Kant's critical philosophy critical of?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Textual transmission and hypertextuality in ancient Mesopotamia: the example of the divinatory series Ε‘umma Δlu and Ε‘umma izbu (second to first millennia BC)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Visualizing the geography of diseases in China, 1870sβ1920s
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Metaphors, similarities and inferences
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How to count organisms
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Impossible objects? Towards a history of modern sleep and dream research
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Medical discourse and scientific thought-styles: what changes and what remains constant
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific perspectivism and its foes
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Time's arrow and Eddington's challenge
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Revisiting the Mendelian revolution
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cambridge mathematics in the north: Peter Guthrie Tait, Philip Kelland and the local nature of mathematics in Edinburgh, 1858β65
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rethinking health, disease and modernity: a view from the farm, c.1930β70
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The mathematicians' philosophy: early Italian perspectives on the intellectual appropriation of the mechanical arts
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Singularist semirealism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The rise of modern physics in Spain: knowledge, power and memory
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
No really, it is: 'water' and 'H2O'
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Lacan's conceptualization of the relation between psychoanalysis, science and philosophy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Expertise, endorsement and enlightenment: the trials and tribulations of health foods in late eighteenth-century Paris
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The 'Great Ice Age' of anatomy: learning from frozen sections c. 1900
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Decision making under indeterminacy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Kuhn's education: Wittgenstein, pedagogy, and the road to structure
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Leprosy and identity in medieval Rouen
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Learning by doodling: Augustus De Morgan's logical diagrams
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How much pluralism?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A history of a tenth of a second
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How to carve nature across the joints without abandoning Kripke-Putnam semantics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'In God we trust, all others we monitor': seismology and international affairs during the Cold War
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Encountering Aristotle's Masterpiece, or how to find a racy book about reproduction
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Alchemy as 'practical exegesis' in early-modern England
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Lessons from the history and philosophy of science for research assessment systems
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Health and disease: beyond naturalism and normativism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Wir sind alle Afrikaner': a brief history and philosophy of the biological 'race' concept
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
From rustics to savants: the uses of indigenous materia medica in colonial New Spain
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How to see movement: visual experience in early nineteenth-century physics
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