Nicky Reeves

Name:	Nicky Reeves
Affiliation:	Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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Talks given by Nicky Reeves

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• Everything is illuminated: candles, funerals and sensuous technology in 18th-century London
• The Whipple Museum is full of rubbish!
• The theatre of science vs the science of theatre: thinking about 18th century experimental performance

Talks organised by Nicky Reeves

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• Lacan's conceptualization of the relation between psychoanalysis, science and philosophy
• Expertise, endorsement and enlightenment: the trials and tribulations of health foods in late eighteenth-century Paris
• The 'Great Ice Age' of anatomy: learning from frozen sections c. 1900
• Decision making under indeterminacy
• Kuhn's education: Wittgenstein, pedagogy, and the road to structure
• Leprosy and identity in medieval Rouen
• Learning by doodling: Augustus De Morgan's logical diagrams
• How much pluralism?
• A history of a tenth of a second
• How to carve nature across the joints without abandoning Kripke-Putnam semantics
• 'In God we trust, all others we monitor': seismology and international affairs during the Cold War
• Alchemy as 'practical exegesis' in early-modern England
• Lessons from the history and philosophy of science for research assessment systems
• Health and disease: beyond naturalism and normativism
• 'Wir sind alle Afrikaner': a brief history and philosophy of the biological 'race' concept
• From rustics to savants: the uses of indigenous materia medica in colonial New Spain
• How to see movement: visual experience in early nineteenth-century physics
• Refashioning women: dress, science and the female body in late nineteenth-century Britain
• Monstrous deliveries: fetal anomalies and the making of facts in nineteenth-century obstetrics
• The flying penman: John Wilkins and 'The Secret and Swift Messenger'
• A statesman and a scholar: Hans Georg Herwart von Hohenburg as a critic and patron of Johannes Kepler
• Samuel Brown of Edinburgh: chemistry and the scientific career in nineteenth-century Scotland
• 'Les particularités la plus considerable': Fontenelle's éloges
• The place of natural philosophy in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge
• Samuel Lilley and the Commission for the History of the Social Relations of Science, 1947–53
• Electrons in the family
• Darwin's microscopes: theory, practice and reputation
• Maternal or fetal diagnostics? Practices of ultrasound imaging in Norway, 1970-1995
• Bangs and stinks: Ede's 'Youth's Laboratories' and the smell of useful knowledge