Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Slave trading and the imagination of the quantifiable body in the early modern South Atlantic

User Pablo F. Gómez (University of Wisconsin–Madison).

Thursday 08 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

In defense of the medical model of obesity

User Andreas De Block (KU Leuven).

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

PhD Showcase

User Various speakers.

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 15:30-17:00

Pious labour: Islam, artisanship, and technology in colonial India

User Amanda Lanzillo (Brunel University London).

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 15:30-17:00

The dream of orderly development: selling the importance of science in Arctic North America after 1945

User Peder Roberts (University of Stavanger).

Thursday 23 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

Lifecycle of a constant: e

User Alistair Isaac (University of Edinburgh).

Thursday 16 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

Where inattention pays

User Jingyi Wu (London School of Economics).

Thursday 09 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

If technology was the answer, what was the question? Digitisation and digital engagement with scientific collections

McConnell Lecture

User Catherine Eagleton (University of St Andrews).

Thursday 02 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

Lineages as evolving processes

User John Dupré (University of Exeter).

Thursday 26 October 2023, 15:30-17:00

Photography and the art of science in nineteenth-century India

User David Arnold (University of Warwick).

Thursday 19 October 2023, 15:30-17:00

House The Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

Technology eats history: time and techno-metabolism in the Anthropocene

Twenty-Seventh Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Paul N. Edwards (Stanford University).

Thursday 01 June 2023, 16:30-18:00

The doctor who wasn't there: technology, history, and the limits of telehealth

User Jeremy Greene (Johns Hopkins University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

Reading modern hands: identity and human types from palmistry to genetics

User Alison Bashford (University of New South Wales).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

Norms are like colours: naturalism and the constitutively perspectival

User Denis Walsh (University of Toronto).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

Expertise as perspectives in dialogue

User Michael Larkin, Lisa Bortolotti, Michele Lim (University of Birmingham).

House Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

A look back at 'Biometrician Versus Mendelian: A Controversy and its Explanation' (1974)

User Gregory Radick (University of Leeds).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 15:30-17:00

Expertise or perspectives in dialogue? The role of lived experience in the mental health context

CANCELLED

User Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 15:30-17:00

Rationalizing discrimination

User Zeynep Pamuk (LSE).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 15:30-17:00

Celebrating an anniversary in the history of science

CANCELLED

User Samir Boumediene (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 15:30-17:00

What can Covid modelling during the pandemic teach us about public participation in science?

User Eric Winsberg (University of South Florida).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Live, and let live: medical recipes and technique of the socialized self across the Ming-Qing transition

User He Bian (Princeton University).

Thursday 26 January 2023, 16:00-17:30

Against presence empiricism

User Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 15:30-17:00

Identifying future-proof science

CANCELLED

User Peter Vickers (Durham University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 15:30-17:00

Knowledge in science and beyond: historiographical challenges and the case of colour history

User Friedrich Steinle (Technische Universitaet Berlin).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 15:30-17:00

A view of technological change through the magic lantern in Japan

User Lewis Bremner (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 15:30-17:00

Population biology and the implicit scientific backing of the 'Human Biodiversity' movement

User Michael Diamond-Hunter (London School of Economics).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 15:30-17:00

The philosophical significance of the Representational Theory of Measurement: RTM as semantic foundations

User Jo Wolff (University of Edinburgh).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 15:30-17:00

Coloniality, global health, and reparations

User Eugene Richardson (Harvard University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 15:30-17:00

Sham matings and other shenanigans: on animal homosexuality

User Pieter R. Adriaens (KU Leuven, Belgium).

House Hopkinson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 15:30-17:00

House Department of Zoology, Main Lecture Theatre.

Environing technologies – shaping, seeing, sense-making

Twenty-Sixth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Sverker Sörlin (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

Thursday 12 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

Brave new future: a realistic ELSI of ectogestation

User Elselijn Kingma-Vermeer (King's College London).

House Hopkinson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 15:30-17:00

Imitation as innovation: recasting the history of technology in modern Korea

User Hyungsub Choi (Seoul National University of Science and Technology; Needham Research Institute).

House Hopkinson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 15:30-17:00

Learning (to learn) from others

User Richard Moore (University of Warwick).

Thursday 10 March 2022, 15:30-17:00

When models migrate: the epistemic pitfalls of model transfer

User Axel Gelfert (Technische Universität Berlin).

Thursday 03 March 2022, 15:30-17:00

Epistemic bunkers

User Katherine Furman (University of Liverpool).

Thursday 24 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

The news from Glozel: media, scandal and the making of French archaeology, ca. 1927

CANCELLED

User Daniel J. Sherman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).

Thursday 17 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

'Navigators...will worship at our shrine': making map history at the National Maritime Museum, 1928–1955

CANCELLED

User Megan Barford (Royal Museums Greenwich).

Thursday 10 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

On the value of the creative imagination in the arts and in the sciences

User Alexander Bird (Faculty of Philosophy).

Thursday 03 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

Exhibiting imperial entanglements in science museums

User Eleanor S. Armstrong (Stockholm University / University of Delaware).

Thursday 27 January 2022, 15:30-17:00

Seeds, a dying river, and an experiment station: re-examining 1960s global solutions to hunger from Sonora, Mexico

User Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard University).

Thursday 20 January 2022, 16:00-17:30

Causal explanation and revealed preferences

User Kate Vredenburgh (London School of Economics).

Thursday 25 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Physical computations are idealisations

User Mark Sprevak (University of Edinburgh).

Thursday 18 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Charlatans and the making of research: the undisciplining and redisciplining of experimental philosophy in seventeenth-century Europe

User Vera Keller (University of Oregon).

Thursday 11 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Tracing scientific instrument makers: the importance of researching the actual objects they made or sold

McConnell Lecture

User Gloria Clifton (Emeritus Curator, National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, Greenwich).

Thursday 04 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cultural groups, essentialism, and ontic risk

User Andrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Thursday 28 October 2021, 15:30-17:00

House The Theatre, Peterhouse.

The kinetic Caribbean: technologies of mobility in a pre-modern world

Twenty-Fifth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User María M. Portuondo (Johns Hopkins University).

Thursday 21 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

Humility in population health science: lessons for fostering an elder-supportive 'culture of health' after the pandemic

User Sean Valles (Michigan State University).

Thursday 20 May 2021, 15:30-17:00

Islamic science, cultural difference and colonization

User Harun Küçük (University of Pennsylvania).

Thursday 13 May 2021, 15:30-17:00

Futures

User Jenny Andersson (Upsala University) and Sandra Kemp (Lancaster University).

Thursday 06 May 2021, 15:30-17:00

World models and intuition in the 1970s

User Sarah Dry (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 29 April 2021, 15:30-17:00

Data agnosticism in medical emergencies: a tale from the past

User David Teira (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia).

Thursday 11 March 2021, 15:30-17:00

Messaging Mars and the dead: technology and fiction in Britain, 1900–1939

User Richard Noakes (University of Exeter).

Thursday 04 March 2021, 15:30-17:00

Drawing processes

User Chiara Ambrosio (University College London).

Thursday 25 February 2021, 15:30-17:00

Guerrilla warfare as sampling: Amílcar Cabral, African independence and the writing of transnational history of science

User Tiago Saraiva (Drexel University).

Thursday 18 February 2021, 15:30-17:00

Doctors v. midwives: Caribbean medical encounters in the age of pronatal abolition

User Sasha Turner (Johns Hopkins University).

Thursday 11 February 2021, 16:00-17:30

Race, science and literary studies in the 21st century

User Josie Gill (University of Bristol).

Thursday 04 February 2021, 15:30-17:00

Truth AND consequences

User Polly Mitchell (King's College London).

Thursday 28 January 2021, 15:30-17:00

How does process tracing work?

User Christopher Clarke (CRASSH Cambridge and Erasmus University, Rotterdam).

Thursday 21 January 2021, 15:30-17:00

How to study animal minds

HPS Virtual Conversation

User See description.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

Do we live in a post-truth era?

User Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij (Birkbeck, University of London).

Thursday 19 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

Africa, race and the most expensive vaccine yet: stakes of hepatitis B immunisation research in Senegal and the Gambia

User Noémi Tousignant (University College London).

Thursday 12 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

A material history of 16th-century astronomy?

Anita McConnell Lecture

User Jim Bennett (University of Oxford, emeritus).

Thursday 05 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

The history of the electric charge c. 1897–1906 through the lenses of perspectival realism

User Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh).

Thursday 29 October 2020, 15:30-17:00

Linking the global and the local: the double burden of child malnutrition in Jamaica, c. 1960–2020

User Henrice Altink (University of York).

Thursday 22 October 2020, 15:30-17:00

Virtual Conversation: Citizen Science

User See description.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 15:30-17:00

Virtual Conversation: Central European Science in Perspective

User See description.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 15:30-17:00

Virtual Conversation: Calculating Trust

User See description.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

Virtual Conversation: Legacies of Early Modern Colonial Science

User See description.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

Virtual Conversation: Histories of Medicine for the 21st Century

User See description.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 15:30-17:00

Virtual Conversation: Pandemic and Policy

User See description.

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 16:00-17:30

'I am rhapsodic man': Alexander von Humboldt in search of himself

User Andreas Daum (University at Buffalo).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body

User Sarah Richardson (Harvard University).

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-17:30

On pluralism in psychiatry

User Miriam Solomon (Temple University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 15:30-17:00

Pick your poison: insecticides and locust control in colonial Kenya

User Sabine Clarke (University of York).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

How atoms became real

User Milena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Nonhuman episodic memory, scepticism and psychological kinds

User Ali Boyle (Trinity Hall, Cambridge).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Directed theories of time and the conventionality of simultaneity

CANCELLED

User Bryan Roberts (LSE).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Cooperative division of cognitive labour: the social epistemology of photosynthesis research

User Kärin Nickelsen (LMU Munich).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Science and the approximation account of knowledge

User Wesley Buckwalter (University of Manchester).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

The adoption of Hindu-Arabic numerals in England and Italy, a comparative perspective (13th–16th centuries)

User Raffaele Danna (Faculty of History).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

CRISPR gene-drive and the war against malaria – the evolutionary ABCs

User Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

From Kepler's optics to Spinoza's politics: Descartes' turn to the passions

User Ofer Gal (University of Sydney).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 15:30-17:00

Whose history of technology? Path dependencies, contested modernities, and pockets of persistence

Twenty-Fourth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Ruth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Du Bois' plan for scientific inquiry

User Liam Kofi Bright (London School of Economics).

Thursday 09 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

The instrument of science

User Darrell Rowbottom (Lingnan University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Rethinking industrial patronage of academic research in the early Cold War

User Joseph Martin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 15:30-17:00

The view from here, there and nowhere? Situating the observer in the planetarium and in the solar system

User Charlotte Bigg (CNRS Paris).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

V-Dem: measuring democracy

User Sharon Crasnow (Norco College/Durham University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

History of S&T need an oil bath: oil, scarcity and technoscience in the 1970s

User Cyrus Mody (Maastricht University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Beyond correspondence: realism for realistic people

User Hasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Past unlimited: the canal of Zabita Khan

User Pratik Chakrabarti (University of Manchester).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Patient reported outcome measures are different

User Leah McClimans (University of South Carolina).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 15:30-17:00

Bathing, bloodletting and bed-rest in the high medieval monastery

User Ruth J. Salter (University of Reading).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

Newton's methodology meets Humean supervenience about laws of nature

User Lina Jansson (University of Nottingham).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Heaven and Earth are within one's grasp: the healer's body-as-technology in classical Chinese medicine

User Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University).

Thursday 17 January 2019, 16:00-17:30

Creating citizen history of science: science, fiction and the future of the 20th century

User Amanda Rees (University of York).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Being human, being Homo sapiens

User Denis Walsh (University of Toronto).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Probabilistic actual causation

User Luke Fenton-Glynn (University College London).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Material substitutions in historical perspective: the cases of the British Substitutes and Vegetable Drugs Committees during World War Two

User Mat Paskins (London School of Economics).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Principia and the air-pump: the social and political roots of Newton's science

User Robert Iliffe (University of Oxford).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 15:30-17:00

Steamroll all the brutes: coal, steam and British Imperialism in mid-nineteenth century Levant and West Africa

Twenty-Third Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Andreas Malm (Lund University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 16:30-18:00

Giant Power: energy technology and the long history of post-truth

CANCELLED

User Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University).

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Creatures of Cain: the hunt for human nature in Cold War America

User Erika Milam (Princeton University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Explaining the recent 'hiatus' in global warming: models, measurement and media

User Wendy S. Parker (Durham University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Statistical biases in peer review

User Remco Heesen (Faculty of Philosophy).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 15:30-17:00

Beyond truth-as-correspondence: realism for realistic people

CANCELLED

User Hasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Poison trials, panaceas and proof: debates about testing and testimony in early modern European medicine

User Alisha Rankin (Tufts University).

Thursday 01 March 2018, 15:30-17:00

Disaggregating goods

Please note change of day and time

User Mariam Thalos (University of Utah).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Barnum, Bache and Poe: the forging of science in the Antebellum US

User John Tresch (University of Pennsylvania).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 15:30-17:00

Machine learning, social learning and self-driving cars

User Jack Stilgoe (UCL).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 15:30-17:00

Sugar, science and the history of capitalism

User David Singerman (University of Virginia).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 15:30-17:00

Modelling at the border of experimental and theoretical practice in physics

User Casey McCoy (University of Edinburgh).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 15:30-17:00

Making sense of art and science

User Charlotte Sleigh (University of Kent).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 15:30-17:00

Before the big bang of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA): 250 years of astronomy in South Africa

User Saul Dubow (Faculty of History).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

A bold hypothesis about pursuit

User Adrian Currie (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Reforming Naples/how to use a network: Vesuvius and savants in the two kingdoms of Sicily

User John Brewer (California Institute of Technology).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Yet another unity of science? Latin American challenges to history, philosophy and social studies of scientific knowledge

User Sandra Harding (UCLA).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

A contagious cause: the search for cancer viruses and the growth of American biomedicine

User Robin Scheffler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

Genres of prediction: astrology between Sanskrit and Hindi print in colonial north India

User Charu Singh (University of Cambridge).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

Frogs in space: physiological research into metric relationships and laws of nature

User Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Scientific habits circa 1900

User Henry Cowles (Yale University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

The history of failure: a chronicle of losers or key to success?

Twenty-Second Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Lissa Roberts (University of Twente).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

The materials for trust-building in expertise

User Heather Douglas (University of Waterloo).

Thursday 04 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Climate in word and image: science and the Austrian idea

User Deborah Coen (Columbia University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 15:30-17:00

The gifts of Athena revisited: protectionism, regulation and the British Industrial Revolution, 1700–1800

User William Ashworth (University of Liverpool).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 15:30-17:00

Animal sentience and human values

User Jonathan Birch (LSE).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 15:30-17:00

On reasonable doubt

User Marion Vorms (Birkbeck, University of London).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 15:30-17:00

Emblematic alchemy: Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens (1617/18)

User Tara Nummedal (Brown University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 15:30-17:00

Only predict? Conscious experience, and the scope and limits of predictive processing

User Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 15:30-17:00

Garbage in, garbage out? A history of representations of computers in popular media

User James Sumner (University of Manchester).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Eugenic sterilization in California: from demographic analysis to digital storytelling

User Alexandra Minna Stern (University of Michigan).

Thursday 24 November 2016, 15:30-17:00

The hubris of youth? Oxford, Cambridge and the Arctic, c.1920–1940

User Richard Powell (University of Oxford).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 15:30-17:00

Embodied and situated moods

User Giovanna Colombetti (University of Exeter).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 15:30-17:00

Mechanisms and natural kinds

User Emma Tobin (UCL).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 27 October 2016, 15:30-17:00

Some sociological aspects of the detection of gravitational waves

User Harry Collins (Cardiff University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 15:30-17:00

'Patterning within the disturbance of coherence': the practical work of measuring and classifying infant disorganised attachment

User Robbie Duschinsky and Sophie Reijman (Department of Public Health and Primary Care).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 13 October 2016, 15:30-17:00

Reclaiming conversation: our new silent spring in a digital age

Twenty-First Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Sherry Turkle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 16:30-18:00

Why genetics succeeds: an epistemology of scientific practice

User C. Kenneth Waters (University of Calgary).

Thursday 12 May 2016, 15:30-17:00

Two sovereign masters: pain, pleasure and utility from Bentham to Skinner

User Cathy Gere (University of California, San Diego).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 15:30-17:00

The science of wishing: Francis Bacon and the magical optative

User Vera Keller (University of Oregon).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 15:30-17:00

Reading Rivière in early modern England: tracing early modern epistemic itineraries

User Elaine Leong (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 15:30-17:00

Cunning, killer orchids

User Jim Endersby (University of Sussex).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 15:30-17:00

Was geology the first science to inject history into the natural world?

User Martin Rudwick (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 15:30-17:00

Translating embodied skill: the politics of writing about making in the early modern period

User Paola Bertucci (Yale University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 15:30-17:00

Visual tools in seventeenth-century medical education

User Sietske Fransen (CRASSH).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 04 February 2016, 15:30-17:00

Extracting the exotic: global chymical medicine in the seventeenth century

User Hjalmar Fors (Uppsala University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 28 January 2016, 15:30-17:00

Travelling texts: notes on early modern geography and Hebraism

User Zur Shalev (University of Haifa).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 15:30-17:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Curing diseases and exchanging knowledge: sixteenth-century physicians and their female patients

User Michael Stolberg (University of Würzburg).

Thursday 14 January 2016, 16:30-18:00

Negotiating 'applied science' in the early 1930s: new media, new discourses, new ideology

User Robert Bud (Science Museum, London).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

Electricity and crystallography: the history and philosophy of Curie's Principle

User Bryan Roberts (LSE).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

Magic bullets

User Jacob Stegenga (University of Victoria).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

'Winston's Gestapo': Churchill, the Royal Society and scientific secrecy before the Bomb

User Jeff Hughes (University of Manchester).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

Questions and questionnaires: knowledge, evidences and rituals of speaking in the early modern period

User Samir Boumediene (Faculty of History).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 16:30-18:00

How archaeological evidence bites back: putting old data to work in new ways

User Alison Wylie (University of Washington).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 16:30-18:00

To explain the Scientific Revolution by means of comparison

Special Joint Needham Research Institute and HPS Seminar

User Floris Cohen (Utrecht University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Friday 16 October 2015, 15:30-17:00

On the movements and value of research data

User Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 16:30-18:00

Metallurgy and Chinese civilisation: an historical overview

Twentieth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Jianjun Mei (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 16:30-18:00

Filming Fore, shooting scientists: medical research and documentary film

User Warwick Anderson (University of Sydney).

Thursday 14 May 2015, 15:30-17:00

The beauty of science without the science of beauty

User Angela Breitenbach (Faculty of Philosophy).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 07 May 2015, 15:30-17:00

Log books and the law of storms: maritime meteorology and the British Admiralty in the 19th century

User Simon Naylor (University of Glasgow).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 15:30-17:00

Mendel the fraud? A social history of truth in genetics

User Greg Radick (University of Leeds).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 15:30-17:00

From craft to mass production? Design, manufacture and patents for artificial limbs, 1890–1925

User Julie Anderson (University of Kent).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 15:30-17:00

The shifting economies of measurement uncertainty

User Eran Tal (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 15:30-17:00

Towards a history of interactivity (through interactive objects)

User Arne Schirrmacher (Humboldt University, Berlin).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 15:30-17:00

The enigma of environmentalism: the power of knowledge and the power of memory

User Frank Uekotter (University of Birmingham).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 15:30-17:00

Cause, causatives and theories of causation

User Julian Reiss (Durham University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 15:30-17:00

The rationality of science in relation to its history

User Sherrilyn Roush (King's College London).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 15:30-17:00

Colour me alchemical, or: form, execution and function in alchemical illustrations

User Anke Timmermann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 22 January 2015, 16:30-18:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

One-seed, two-seed, three-seed? Reassessing ancient theories of generation

User Rebecca Flemming (Faculty of Classics).

Thursday 15 January 2015, 16:30-18:00

Not-knowing about the aetiology of cervical cancer: a puzzle about absence of evidence

User Brendan Clarke (University College London).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 16:30-18:00

Age of iron, age of gold: the Thirty Years War, the German reformed diaspora, and the golden age of the Dutch universities

User Howard Hotson (University of Oxford).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 16:30-18:00

New perspectives on the Great Exhibition

User Geoffrey Cantor (University College London).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 30 October 2014, 16:30-18:00

Meso-science and modernism: work at the Royal Society Mond Laboratory, 1933–1972

User Boris Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 23 October 2014, 16:30-18:00

Pregnancy testing before DIY: rethinking the patient-doctor-laboratory relationship

User Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 16 October 2014, 16:30-18:00

Waste, value and radioactive excess in Africa

Nineteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Gabrielle Hecht (University of Michigan).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 19 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

There are mechanisms – and then there are mechanisms

User Nancy Cartwright (Durham University and UCSD).

Thursday 15 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Facing facts: the great Tichborne trials and the rise of modern visual evidence

User Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

'For the sake of ornament': iconography in Tycho Brahe's Astronomiae instauratae mechanica

User Emma Perkins (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

How trees defy gravity: conceptual and historical remarks on the theory of the ascent of sap

User Harvey Brown (University of Oxford).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 16:30-18:00

Generic speech acts and social kinds

User Rae Langton (Faculty of Philosophy).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 06 March 2014, 16:30-18:00

Harrisonomastix: dismantling the connection between experimental religion and experimental science in early modern England

User Stephen Pumfrey (Lancaster University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 27 February 2014, 16:30-18:00

Science and empire: the view from Beijing, c. 1700

User Catherine Jami (CNRS-SPHERE, Paris).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 20 February 2014, 16:30-18:00

Two views of linguistic science and its data

User Shane Glackin (University of Exeter).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 13 February 2014, 16:30-18:00

Demotic mathematics and modernism's shipwrecked poetics of insurance

User Alice Bamford (Faculty of English).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 30 January 2014, 16:30-18:00

Information channels and biomarkers of disease

User Phyllis Illari (UCL).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 23 January 2014, 16:30-18:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The clinic of the birth: obstetric ultrasound, medical innovation and the clinico-anatomical project

User Malcolm Nicolson (University of Glasgow).

Thursday 16 January 2014, 16:30-18:00

A California Yankee in King Arthur's Court (with apologies to Mark Twain), or why a molecular neurobiologist landed in HPS

Please note change of date

User David Teplow (UCLA).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 05 December 2013, 16:30-18:00

'VD is no camp': creating and communicating knowledge about same-sex venereal disease transmission in the Anglo-American world, c.1939–1984

User Richard McKay (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 28 November 2013, 16:30-18:00

The love of plants: from love to sex in the history of botany

User Laurence Totelin (Cardiff University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 21 November 2013, 16:30-18:00

Causal assessment and the question of stability

User Feredica Russo (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 14 November 2013, 16:30-18:00

Talking to our selves: reflection, scepticism and agency

User John Doris (Washington University in St Louis).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 07 November 2013, 16:30-18:00

'A trip to Mars by aeroplane': genres of public astronomy and the practice of astrophysics in the fin de siècle

User Josh Nall (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 24 October 2013, 16:30-18:00

House Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Coal, steam and ships: economic historians versus historians of technology?

Eighteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Crosbie Smith (University of Kent).

Thursday 23 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

The problem of inductive risk and the ethics of communication

User Stephen John (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 16 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

'Nature concocts and expels': recovery from illness in early modern England, 1580–1720

User Hannah Newton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 09 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Controversy, mistrust, even witchcraft: the failure of cancer therapy with neutrons

User Gerald Kutcher (Binghamton University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 02 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Freud, Russell and Wittgenstein: 'therapeutic positivism', psychoanalysis and the origins of analytic philosophy in Cambridge

User John Forrester (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 16:30-18:00

Charles Darwin and the margins between flora and fauna in the 1870s: the case of insectivorous plants

User Francis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 07 March 2013, 16:30-18:00

Herophilus of Chalcedon on the soul and the nervous system

User David Leith (Faculty of Classics).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Kepler's Temple of Urania in the light of Hebenstreit's Idyll

User Nick Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

New light on Descartes's philosophical starting-point: an unknown manuscript of the Rules for the Direction of the Mind

User Michael Edwards (Jesus College) and Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 14 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Selection and maximization

User Jonathan Birch (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 07 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

What pluralism could be and might do

User Tim Button (Faculty of Philosophy).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

Poet of progress: serendipity and the search for Erasmus Darwin

User Patricia Fara (Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Clare College, Cambridge).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 24 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Generatio: medieval debates about procreation, heredity and 'bioethics'

User Maaike van der Lugt (Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 / Institut Universitaire de France).

Thursday 17 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

The knowledge practices of Fortune magazine: leadership, numeracy and poetry, 1930–1945

User Tiago Mata (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

Infertility – the making of a modern experience, Germany 1870–1930

User Christina Benninghaus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 15 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

Ingenuity in the gallery

User Alex Marr (Department of History of Art).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 08 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

Philosophy Events

Inaugural Lecture: Where would we be without counterfactuals?

User Huw Price (Faculty of Philosophy).

House LB3, Lecture Block, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Reasoning about well-being: between psychometrics and philosophy

User Anna Alexandrova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 16:30-18:00

Geographies of knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia, c.800–200 BC

User Eleanor Robson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 18 October 2012, 16:30-18:00

Scientific pluralism and the mission of history and philosophy of science

Inaugural Lecture by Professor Hasok Chang

User Hasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Mill Lane Lecture Room 3.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 16:45-18:00

The sciences of subjectivity

Special seminar: please note this will be held on a Wednesday

User Steven Shapin (Harvard University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

House Room 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

The modern rise of surgery: gloves as a technology of control

Seventeenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Thomas Schlich (McGill University).

Thursday 24 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Urban modernity: reconsidering Paris from 1852 to 1914

User Miriam R. Levin (Case Western Reserve University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Colonial classification

User Khadija Carroll La (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 10 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

'Lucretian pessimism' or, what was Kant's critical philosophy critical of?

User Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 03 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Textual transmission and hypertextuality in ancient Mesopotamia: the example of the divinatory series šumma ālu and šumma izbu (second to first millennia BC)

User Marie-Françoise Besnier (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 26 April 2012, 16:30-18:00

Visualizing the geography of diseases in China, 1870s–1920s

User Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 16:30-18:00

Metaphors, similarities and inferences

User Mauricio Suárez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid and LSE).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 16:30-18:00

How to count organisms

User Ellen Clarke (All Souls College, Oxford).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Impossible objects? Towards a history of modern sleep and dream research

User Andreas Mayer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Medical discourse and scientific thought-styles: what changes and what remains constant

User Irma Taavitsainen (University of Helsinki).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 09 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Scientific perspectivism and its foes

User Michela Massimi (University College London).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Time's arrow and Eddington's challenge

User Huw Price (Faculty of Philosophy).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 26 January 2012, 16:30-18:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Revisiting the Mendelian revolution

User Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Exeter).

Thursday 19 January 2012, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge mathematics in the north: Peter Guthrie Tait, Philip Kelland and the local nature of mathematics in Edinburgh, 1858–65

User Josipa Petrunic (University of Toronto).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 24 November 2011, 16:30-18:00

Rethinking health, disease and modernity: a view from the farm, c.1930–70

User Abigail Woods (Imperial College London).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 17 November 2011, 16:30-18:00

The mathematicians' philosophy: early Italian perspectives on the intellectual appropriation of the mechanical arts

User Cesare S. Maffioli (International Academy of the History of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 16:30-18:00

Singularist semirealism

User Bence Nanay (University of Antwerp and Peterhouse, Cambridge).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 16:30-18:00

The rise of modern physics in Spain: knowledge, power and memory

User Xavier Roqué (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 16:30-18:00

No really, it is: 'water' and 'H2O'

User Robin Findlay Hendry (Durham University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 16:30-18:00

Surveying the scene, engineering the machine: drawing things together in the Age of Enlightenment

Sixteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Celina Fox.

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 26 May 2011, 16:30-18:00

Lacan's conceptualization of the relation between psychoanalysis, science and philosophy

User Alireza Taheri (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Thursday 19 May 2011, 16:30-18:00

Expertise, endorsement and enlightenment: the trials and tribulations of health foods in late eighteenth-century Paris

User Emma Spary (Faculty of History).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 12 May 2011, 16:30-18:00

The 'Great Ice Age' of anatomy: learning from frozen sections c. 1900

User Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 05 May 2011, 16:30-18:00

Decision making under indeterminacy

User Robbie Williams (University of Leeds).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 16:30-18:00

Kuhn's education: Wittgenstein, pedagogy, and the road to structure

User Joel Isaac (Queen Mary, University of London/CRASSH, Cambridge).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 10 March 2011, 16:30-18:00

Leprosy and identity in medieval Rouen

User Elma Brenner (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 16:30-18:00

Learning by doodling: Augustus De Morgan's logical diagrams

User Joan Richards (Brown University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 16:30-18:00

How much pluralism?

User James Ladyman (University of Bristol).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 16:30-18:00

A history of a tenth of a second

User Jimena Canales (Harvard University).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 10 February 2011, 16:30-18:00

How to carve nature across the joints without abandoning Kripke-Putnam semantics

User Helen Beebee (University of Birmingham).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 03 February 2011, 16:30-18:00

'In God we trust, all others we monitor': seismology and international affairs during the Cold War

User Simone Turchetti (University of Manchester).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 27 January 2011, 16:30-18:00

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Encountering Aristotle's Masterpiece, or how to find a racy book about reproduction

User Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University).

Thursday 20 January 2011, 16:30-18:00

Alchemy as 'practical exegesis' in early-modern England

User Jennifer Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 25 November 2010, 16:30-18:00

Lessons from the history and philosophy of science for research assessment systems

User Donald Gillies (UCL).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 16:30-18:00

Health and disease: beyond naturalism and normativism

User Ellie Kingma (King's College London).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 16:30-18:00

'Wir sind alle Afrikaner': a brief history and philosophy of the biological 'race' concept

User Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther (University of California, Santa Cruz, and University of Copenhagen).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 04 November 2010, 16:30-18:00

From rustics to savants: the uses of indigenous materia medica in colonial New Spain

User Miruna Achim (Universidad Autómona Metropolitana, Mexico City).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 16:30-18:00

How to see movement: visual experience in early nineteenth-century physics

User Chitra Ramalingam (Science Museum and CRASSH, Cambridge).

House Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 21 October 2010, 16:30-18:00

The CCR5 gene patent: biomedicine, intellectual property and commerce in the United States

User Myles W. Jackson (Polytechnic Institute of New York University and the Gallatin School of NYU).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Friday 28 May 2010, 16:30-18:00

From scientific instruments to musical instruments: the tuning fork, metronome and siren

Fifteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Myles W. Jackson (Polytechnic Institute of New York University and the Gallatin School of NYU).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 27 May 2010, 16:30-18:00

Writing post-feminist history: female sexual dysfunction and biological psychiatry, 1960 to the present

User Katherine Angel (University of Warwick).

Thursday 13 May 2010, 16:30-18:00

Respiratory physiology, experiment and Everest, from ghastly kitchens to gasping lungs

User Vanessa Heggie (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 06 May 2010, 16:30-18:00

Justice and automated match officiating

User Harry Collins (Cardiff University).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 29 April 2010, 16:30-18:00

Epistemic risk and public health science

User Mark Parascandola (National Institutes of Health, USA).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 22 April 2010, 16:30-18:00

The solution to the problem of mental causation

User Tim Crane (Faculty of Philosophy).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 11 March 2010, 16:30-18:00

Dissolving a Darwinian dilemma for moral realism

User Kevin Brosnan (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 16:30-18:00

Ethics, risk and public works: models of optimal risk reduction

User Luc Bovens (LSE).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 16:30-18:00

The credit crisis as a problem in the sociology of knowledge

User Donald Mackenzie (University of Edinburgh).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 16:30-18:00

Toys in Monkeyland: the utility of anatomical models and medical expertise in late eighteenth-century Vienna

User Anna Maerker (Oxford Brookes University).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 11 February 2010, 16:30-18:00

Why expert judgment isn't evidence: a qualified defence of the EBM position

User Jeremy Howick (UCL).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 04 February 2010, 16:30-18:00

Scavengers of nature: recycling in the history of science and medicine

User Simon Werrett (University of Washington, Seattle).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 28 January 2010, 16:30-18:00

Description, design and aesthesis in the work of John Ray and contemporaries

User Alexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 14 January 2010, 16:30-18:00

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Divorcing sex and reproduction: the discussion of artificial insemination in Britain, 1918–1948

User Angus McLaren (University of Victoria).

Thursday 03 December 2009, 16:30-18:00

Picturability and the mathematical ideals of knowledge: Leibniz versus Newton

User Stephen Gaukroger (University of Sydney and University of Aberdeen).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 26 November 2009, 16:30-18:00

Dynamic (bio)ontologies for good epistemology

User Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 16:30-18:00

Learning things: the objects of familiar science in nineteenth-century Britain

User Melanie Keene (Homerton College, Cambridge).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 16:30-18:00

Social knowing

User Alexander Bird (University of Bristol).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 16:30-18:00

A philosopher of science looks at medicine: do we 'need some large, simple randomized trials'?

User John Worrall (London School of Economics).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 16:30-18:00

Dr Lauder Lindsay's lemmings: mad beasts and misanthropy in a Victorian asylum

User Richard Barnett (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 16:30-18:00

Rulers, clocks and common sense: metrology as a key to Wittgenstein's On Certainty

Valedictory Lecture

User Martin Kusch (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 04 June 2009, 16:30-18:00

Local crafts and universal science: lived experience and the written word in the early modern world

Fourteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Pamela H. Smith (Columbia University).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 28 May 2009, 16:30-18:00

The two cultures controversy: science, literature and cultural politics in postwar Britain

User Guy Ortolano (University of Virginia).

Thursday 21 May 2009, 16:30-18:00

Experimental religion and experimental natural philosophy in early modern England

User Peter Harrison (University of Oxford).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 16:30-18:00

Insanity, divine madness and prophecy in Jung's self-experimentation

User Sonu Shamdasani (University College London).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 16:30-18:00

Causation, models of disease and epidemiology

User Alex Broadbent (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 16:30-18:00

Fusing modern art and science: Marian Dale Scott, Hans Selye, and the visualisation of life

User Mark Jackson (University of Exeter).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 23 April 2009, 16:30-18:00

On recent work on faultless disagreement

User Max Kolbel (University of Barcelona).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 05 March 2009, 16:30-18:00

Consensus and disagreement in science

User Stephan Hartmann (Tilburg University).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 26 February 2009, 16:30-18:00

Scientia sexualis versus ars erotica: Foucault, van Gulik, Needham, Orientalism

User Leon Antonio Rocha (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 19 February 2009, 16:30-18:00

'A falling star' – the sovereign self in Otto Weininger

Jointly hosted with CRASSH, and held in their seminar room at 17 Mill Lane

User Louis Sass (Rutgers University, New Jersey).

House CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

Thursday 12 February 2009, 17:00-19:00

Narratives in Greek mathematics?

User Markus Asper (New York University).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 05 February 2009, 16:30-18:00

History and philosophy of regulatory science: the case of pharmaceuticals

User John Abraham (University of Sussex).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 29 January 2009, 16:30-18:00

Between law and astronomy: Kepler, Galileo and the uses of witnessing

User Mario Biagioli (Harvard University).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 22 January 2009, 16:30-18:00

Thinking 'through numbers'

User Hélène Mialet (Harvard University).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 15 January 2009, 16:30-18:00

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Making the invisible visible: the hidden history of families, schools, civil rights, media and science in the production of learning disabilities

User Rayna Rapp (New York University).

Thursday 04 December 2008, 16:30-18:00

Imagined experiments: molecular modelling and make-believe

User Adam Toon (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 16:30-18:00

Phlogiston revisited: an argument for scientific pluralism

User Hasok Chang (University College London).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 16:30-18:00

Where does a claim for the necessity of historical knowledge lead in the human sciences?

User Roger Smith (Lancaster University / Durham University).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 16:30-18:00

Early-modern investigations on the nature of tarantism from Tommaso Campanella to Antonio Vallisneri

User Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 30 October 2008, 16:30-18:00

The shape of the conceptual

User Charles Travis (King's College London).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 23 October 2008, 16:30-18:00

A Roman engineer’s tales

User Serafina Cuomo (Birkbeck, University of London).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 12 June 2008, 16:30-18:00

The new riddle of causation

User Alex Broadbent (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 05 June 2008, 16:30-18:00

Slavery in the cabinet of curiosities: Hans Sloane's Atlantic world

User James Delbourgo (McGill University and Visiting Fellow, CRASSH).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 29 May 2008, 16:30-18:00

House Room 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

Shaping postwar Europe: science, technology and American soft power

Thirteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User John Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology).

Thursday 22 May 2008, 16:30-18:00

The 'mechanical hypothesis' in Ancient Greek natural philosophy

User Sylvia Berryman (University of British Columbia).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 15 May 2008, 16:30-18:00

What is an organism?

User John Dupré (University of Exeter).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 08 May 2008, 16:30-18:00

Rolling up the history of a science: Greek musical theorists on their predecessors

User Andrew Barker (University of Birmingham).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 01 May 2008, 16:30-18:00

The politics and physiology of laughter in eighteenth-century France: the Saint-Aubins’ Livre des Culs

User Colin Jones and Emily Richardson (Queen Mary, University of London).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 16:30-18:00

Walking as a problem of the nineteenth century

User Andreas Mayer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 16:30-18:00

Contracting the philosopher’s stone: fraud, risk and profit in early modern alchemy

User Tara Nummedal (Brown University).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 16:30-18:00

Rival theories of the aerofoil: 1909-1926

User David Bloor (University of Edinburgh).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 16:30-18:00

Thatcher, scientist

User Jon Agar (University College London).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 16:30-18:00

Natural purposes, Kantian analogies and environmental ethics

User Angela Breitenbach (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 16:30-18:00

Biographical medicine: London consultants explain disease

User Harry M. Marks (Johns Hopkins University).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 17 January 2008, 16:30-18:00

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Proving a negative? How important was sexual abstinence during the fertility decline?

User Simon Szreter (St John's College, Cambridge).

Thursday 29 November 2007, 16:30-18:00

Spinoza on law and sovereignty

User Susan James (Birkbeck, University of London).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 16:30-18:00

'A year of resurrection, a year of grotesque horror': heart transplants and the media in 1968

User Ayesha Nathoo (Clare Hall, Cambridge).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 15 November 2007, 16:30-18:00

Are there Lewis conventions?

User Francesco Guala (University of Exeter).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 08 November 2007, 16:30-18:00

Panacea's daughters: gentlewomen healers and experiential knowledge in early modern Germany

User Alisha Rankin (Trinity College, Cambridge).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 01 November 2007, 16:30-18:00

Practical reasoning and inference

User Jonathan Dancy (University of Reading and University of Texas at Austin).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 25 October 2007, 16:30-18:00

'Sybil' in particulars and generals: inductive logic and Victorian narrative

User Alice Jenkins (University of Glasgow and CRASSH).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 18 October 2007, 16:30-18:00

House Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Music and technology studies: from the Moog synthesizer to ACIDplanet.com

The Twelfth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

User Trevor Pinch (Cornell University).

Thursday 24 May 2007, 16:30-18:00

Williamson on knowledge

User Quassim Cassam (Faculty of Philosophy).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 10 May 2007, 16:30-18:00

Kepler as chronologer

User Anthony Grafton (Princeton University).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 03 May 2007, 16:30-18:00

Chymistry and colours: alchemy, matter theory and optics in the early work of Isaac Newton

User William Newman (Indiana University).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 26 April 2007, 16:30-18:00

Anatomical politics and urban transformation in Vienna, 1848–1945

User Tatjana Buklijas (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 08 March 2007, 16:30-18:00

Reference failure: why worry?

User Christina McLeish (St Catharine's College and Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 22 February 2007, 16:30-18:00

From manifest image to Musgrave's problem: some comments on van Fraassen's epistemology

User Paul Dicken (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 08 February 2007, 16:30-18:00

Francis Bacon and the art-nature distinction

User Sophie Weeks (Homerton College and Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

House Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

Thursday 25 January 2007, 16:30-18:00