Abstract

A showcase of research by current PhD students in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Featured talks include the following:

• Kim Alexander – The problem with the ‘Pope Rule’: what past mistakes mean for the history of contraception today
• Thomas Banbury – The meteorology of the mind: vaporous analogies in medieval thought
• Leo Chu – Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and other Green Revolutions, 1950–2000
• Janna Müller – Conceptualising asteroids in the Solar System: the classification of celestial bodies in early 19th century astronomy
• Niall Roe – Charles Peirce and (early) experimental science
• Daniela Sclavo – Chile and flavour: the history of chile conservation in Mexico, 1970s–present
• Timothy Sim – The history of dengue fever in Singapore, 1965–2000
• Philipp Spillmann – The N = 1 problem in astrobiology
• Xinyi Wen – The ‘Scientific Revolution’ and plants that look like us