CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Inferring from negative analogies: lessons on analogical reasoning from clinical medical practice

Helene Scott-Fordsmand (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Instructions for race-making: skull collecting at Edinburgh University's Natural History Museum

Linda Andersson Burnett (Uppsala University).

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

Monday 11 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Medical diagnoses through geomancy in medieval and early modern Europe

Arrianna Dalla Costa (Warburg Institute).

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

Monday 04 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Is AI generated art really art?

Milena Ivanova (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Empire, indigenous knowledge and the practice of recording and classifying the plants of New Zealand, 1769–1838

Edwin Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 26 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Planetary microbes: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, the agency and the politics of microbes, 1840s–1850s

Mathias Grote (Universität Greifswald).

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

Monday 19 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Limit objects and emergence

Miklós Rédei (LSE).

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

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The Pomeranian Cabinet of Philipp Hainhofer

Amelia Hutchinson (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 12 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Fashion in bloom: exploring the presence of artificial flowers in the credit records of an 18th-century French fashion merchant

Zara Kesterton (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 05 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

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

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

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

When the data cannot speak clearly: Covid-19 and minoritised groups

Michael Diamond-Hunter (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

A backwards book? Authorship, eugenics, and the evolution of R.A. Fisher's The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection

Alex Aylward (University of Oxford).

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

Monday 29 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Pierre Gassendi and monocular vision

Guillermo Willis (Warburg Institute).

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

Monday 22 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Unifying the notion of objectivity

Inkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki).

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

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What explainable AI can learn from philosophy of science

Lena Kästner (Universität Bayreuth).

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

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The case of Ignaz Semmelweis revisited: a plea for Popperian science

Zuzana Parusniková (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague).

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

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Can anyone be a target of discrimination? Lessons from philosophy of science and work on human kinds

Marion Godman (Aarhus University).

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

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Why we shouldn't democratise science

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

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

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

In defence of dimensions

Caspar Jacobs (Merton College, Oxford).

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

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Jeremy Greene (Johns Hopkins University).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Bayesian explanationism

Stephan Hartmann (MCMP, LMU Munich).

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

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Alison Bashford (University of New South Wales).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Not for me: on the external function of guilt

Shaun Nichols (Cornell University).

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

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Norms are like colours: naturalism and the constitutively perspectival

Denis Walsh (University of Toronto).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Ways of branchmaking

Nick Huggett (University of Illinois Chicago).

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

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Can present-day philosophers make scientific contributions? From philosophy in science to conceptual and theoretical thinking in science

Thomas Pradeu (CNRS).

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

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Gregory Radick (University of Leeds).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Laws unconstrained: against minimal primitivism about laws of nature

Michael Townsen Hicks (University of Birmingham).

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

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

CANCELLED

Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Realism and technocracy: a working hypothesis

Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Edinburgh).

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

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

How medical data infrastructures materialize oppression

Marion Boulicault (Trinity Hall, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Rationalizing discrimination

Zeynep Pamuk (LSE).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Ways of worldfaking

CANCELLED

Boaz Miller (Zefat Academic College).

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

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Celebrating an anniversary in the history of science

CANCELLED

Samir Boumediene (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The causal structure of cultural domination

Tarun Menon (Azim Premji University).

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

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Eric Winsberg (University of South Florida).

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

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

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

He Bian (Princeton University).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Linguistic discrimination, processing fluency, and the foreign language effect in science

Uwe Peters (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Against presence empiricism

Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter).

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

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

Early Science and Medicine

'Description, figure and colour combined': in search of perfection in zoological representation, c. 1820–1850

Joyce Dixon (University of Edinburgh).

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

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 11:00-12:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Domestic frontispieces and the knowledge of the early modern home, 1600–1750

Lucy Havard (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 28 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Identifying future-proof science

CANCELLED

Peter Vickers (Durham University).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Imagination and mathematics in economic modelling

Fiora Salis (University of York).

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

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Rebuilding collections and reconstructing science: using materiality of the du Bois Herbarium to understand early modern botany

Madeline White (University of Oxford).

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

Monday 21 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Friedrich Steinle (Technische Universitaet Berlin).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The division of cognitive labor and the structure of interdisciplinary problems

Jaakko Kuorikoski (University of Helsinki).

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

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

From Gilead to Peru: balsam in late Renaissance medicine and alchemy

Elisabeth Moreau (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 14 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A view of technological change through the magic lantern in Japan

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

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Perceptual wronging and perceptual injustice

Tom McClelland (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Michael Diamond-Hunter (London School of Economics).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Perceived inequality and the strive for standardization

Alessandra Basso (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Jo Wolff (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

'Put on my tomb: this is what she was trying for': the extraordinary life of Margaret Masterman

Peter da Bolla (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

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

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

Monday 24 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Coloniality, global health, and reparations

Eugene Richardson (Harvard University).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Worries about philosopher experts

Cathrine Holst (University of Oslo).

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

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'Oute of araby cometh the best': imported jewels, Arabic science and crusading nostalgia in medieval English lapidary traditions

Eleanor Myerson (Parker Library, Corpus Christi College).

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

Monday 17 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Science in crisis? Reproducibility and the philosophy of science

Samuel Fletcher (University of Minnesota).

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

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The household of Carl Linnaeus: organisation and performative practices

Annika Windahl-Pontén (Uppsala University).

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

Monday 10 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Do we live in a post-truth era?

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

Zoom.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Noémi Tousignant (University College London).

Zoom.

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

CANCELLED

Carina Prunkl (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Medical heritage as cultural property: pan-African politics and global IP precedents in the 1960s and 1970s

CANCELLED

Helen Tilley (Northwestern University).

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

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Learning from sociological case studies

CANCELLED

Petri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki).

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

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Andreas Daum (University at Buffalo).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Epistemic engagement, aesthetic value and scientific practice

CANCELLED

Adrian Currie (University of Exeter).

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

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Scientific naturalism and the modern empirical occult: historiographical and practical issues

CANCELLED

Andreas Sommer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body

Sarah Richardson (Harvard University).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The good news about killing people

Bryan W. Roberts (LSE).

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

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

On pluralism in psychiatry

Miriam Solomon (Temple University).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Non-Han bodies: anthropology, visuality and biopower in China's southwest borderland during the second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)

Zhu Jing (University of Warwick).

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

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The search for invertebrate consciousness

Jonathan Birch (LSE).

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

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Pick your poison: insecticides and locust control in colonial Kenya

Sabine Clarke (University of York).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Creativity and AI

Marta Halina (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How atoms became real

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

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The tempo of modernity: rethinking the history of modern time

Allegra Fryxell (Pembroke College).

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Nonhuman episodic memory, scepticism and psychological kinds

Ali Boyle (Trinity Hall, Cambridge).

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

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

Coffee with Scientists

Science communication's 'missing masses': scale and symmetry in the study of science communication

CANCELLED

James Dolan (King's College).

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

Friday 29 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Directed theories of time and the conventionality of simultaneity

CANCELLED

Bryan Roberts (LSE).

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

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

Coffee with Scientists

1 million correlations: steps towards reproducible psychological science

Amy Orben (Emmanuel College and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Friday 22 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Kärin Nickelsen (LMU Munich).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Pluralism about actual causation

Enno Fischer (Leibniz Universität Hannover).

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

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Science and the approximation account of knowledge

Wesley Buckwalter (University of Manchester).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

'The Ineradicable Eliza Effect and Its Dangers': Weizenbaum, Pygmalion and the implications of gendering AI

Sarah Dillon (Faculty of English).

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

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The replication crisis and philosophy

Wesley Buckwalter (University of Manchester).

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

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Coffee with Scientists

What works in wildlife conservation? Assessing the evidence to save the planet

Alec Christie (Zoology).

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

Friday 08 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Raffaele Danna (Faculty of History).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

An appraisal of scientific reasoning as therapy in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Sahanika Ratnayake (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The science of childhood: postcolonial development in India, 1950s

Arathi Sriprakash and Peter Sutoris (Faculty of Education).

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

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Theories of consciousness and animal minds: a modest theoretical proposal

Henry Shevlin (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence).

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

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

On validators for psychiatric categories

Miriam Solomon (Temple University).

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

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

Coffee with Scientists

Pluralism and monism in design fixation research

Nathan Crilly (Engineering Design).

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

Friday 18 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Making a name in mid-century mathematics: individuals, institutions and the open secret of Nicolas Bourbaki

Michael Barany (University of Edinburgh).

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

Thursday 17 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Ofer Gal (University of Sydney).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Does science progress?

Darrell Rowbottom (Lingnan University).

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

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Thinking/researching/teaching race, genetics and intelligence in HPS and STS

Jenny Bangham (HPS), Marta Halina (HPS) and Ernesto Schwartz Marin (University of Exeter).

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

Thursday 16 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Early modern history of data and epistemology of form

Aaron Hanlon (Colby College).

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

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Du Bois' plan for scientific inquiry

Liam Kofi Bright (London School of Economics).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

How wide and how tall? Genome Wide Association Studies in debate, from height to educational attainment and back

Ulrika Björkstén (Clare Hall; Sveriges Radio).

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

Thursday 09 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Follow the measures: conceptualization, measurement and interdisciplinarity in the science of empathy

Riana Betzler (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The instrument of science

Darrell Rowbottom (Lingnan University).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Rethinking industrial patronage of academic research in the early Cold War

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

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

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

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

Charlotte Bigg (CNRS Paris).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

On a central puzzle in philosophical catoptrics

Maarten Steenhagen (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

V-Dem: measuring democracy

Sharon Crasnow (Norco College/Durham University).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

A surprising epistemic advantage of accommodation over prediction

CANCELLED

Finnur Dellsén (University of Iceland).

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

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Cyrus Mody (Maastricht University).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Making difference: queer activism and anthropological theory

Paolo Heywood (Department of Social Anthropology).

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

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Two types of success: epistemic exchange and societal impact in extra-academic research collaborations

Inkeri Koskinen (University of Helsinki).

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

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Beyond correspondence: realism for realistic people

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

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Beauty, truth and understanding

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

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

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Past unlimited: the canal of Zabita Khan

Pratik Chakrabarti (University of Manchester).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

A political history of apolitical science

Audra J. Wolfe (Independent Scholar).

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

Thursday 14 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Spatial experience: more than mere structure

Peter Epstein (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Patient reported outcome measures are different

Leah McClimans (University of South Carolina).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Non-literal model interpretations

James Nguyen (UCL).

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

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Ruth J. Salter (University of Reading).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Constructing the field: power, persona and paper tools

Freddy Foks (Faculty of History).

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

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Negotiating history: contingency, canonicity and case studies

Agnes Bolinska and Joseph Martin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Newton's methodology meets Humean supervenience about laws of nature

Lina Jansson (University of Nottingham).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Explanatory directionality

Lina Jansson (University of Nottingham).

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

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

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

Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Decolonising the history of science curriculum

Mary Brazelton, Simon Schaffer, Charu Singh and Richard Staley (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The thaw in the Pole: Cold War science and showcasing at the Siberian science-city and Antarctic expeditions (1955–1964)

Ksenia Tatarchenko (University of Geneva).

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

Thursday 20 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The C theory of time

Matt Farr (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Missing friars: rethinking late medieval medicine

Peter Jones (King's College, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Amanda Rees (University of York).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

'The American soldier' in Jerusalem: on measurement, travel and translation

CANCELLED

Tal Arbel (Tel Aviv University/University of Edinburgh).

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

Thursday 22 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Time-asymmetry in thermal physics

Katie Robertson (Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge/University of Birmingham).

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

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

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

From pustulent penises to death by celibacy: thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe

CANCELLED

Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Being human, being Homo sapiens

Denis Walsh (University of Toronto).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Memory: what is it good for?

Ali Boyle (Trinity Hall, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Living archives and dying wards: ethical records preservation at the Uganda Cancer Institute

Marissa Mika (University College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Probabilistic actual causation

Luke Fenton-Glynn (University College London).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Anticipations of the ocean: technological futures of the Cold War ocean

Sam Robinson (University of York).

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

Thursday 08 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Temporal binding and the idea of a 'sense of agency': a critical examination

Christoph Hoerl (University of Warwick).

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

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

From angel food to vegetable diets: medicalizing the feminine appetite in the British 18th century

Jessica Hamel-Akré (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

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

Mat Paskins (London School of Economics).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Reconciling the opposing effects of neurobiological evidence on criminal sentencing judgments

Karina Vold (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Psychedelic birth: bodies, boundaries and consciousness in the 1970s

Wendy Kline (Purdue University / University of Strathclyde).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Robert Iliffe (University of Oxford).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

A city of future past: urban planning and urban construction in northeast China after the Communist Revolution

Koji Hirata (Emmanuel College, Cambridge).

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

Thursday 25 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Leibniz, Mach and the C-Series

Karim Thébault (University of Bristol).

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

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'Since the introduction of the Sick Pay Scheme, sick absence has increased': sick pay, sick leave and sick notes in the nationalised industries c. 1948–1959

Gareth Millward (University of Warwick).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Explanations for medical artificial intelligence

Rune Nyrup (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

How US science moved west: Boulder, Colorado and the development of US space sciences in mid-20th century America

Joe Bassi (University of Texas, El Paso).

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

Thursday 11 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Many Molyneux Questions

Jonathan Cohen (University of California, San Diego).

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

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Before Trump: the neoliberal–illiberal alliance of the IMF and WTO with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Note unusual day and time

Sonja Amadae (MIT).

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

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Constructing the organism in the age of abstraction

Mazviita D. Chirimuuta (University of Pittsburgh).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What can scientific realists think about scientific method(s)?

Darrell Rowbottom (Lingnan University; Durham University).

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

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Science, scientific method and rationality: Nehru's engagement with Ayurveda

Renny Thomas (University of Delhi).

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

Thursday 17 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

CANCELLED

Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

A new way to defend the value free ideal for science

Mike Stuart (LSE).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Erika Milam (Princeton University).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Understanding protein function through multiple models of structure: barriers to integration

Agnes Bolinska (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) and Julie-Anne Gandier (University of Toronto).

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

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Wendy S. Parker (Durham University).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Number, probability and community: the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern data model, Monte Carlo simulations and counterfactual futures in cricket

Siva Arumugam (Cambridge).

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

Thursday 03 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Guard against temptation: team reasoning and the role of intentions in exercising willpower

Natalie Gold (King's College London).

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

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Statistical biases in peer review

Remco Heesen (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

How archaeologists resolve the inductive risk argument

CANCELLED

Rune Nyrup (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence).

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

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Beyond truth-as-correspondence: realism for realistic people

CANCELLED

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

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

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

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

Alisha Rankin (Tufts University).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The interpretation of black hole solutions in general relativity

CANCELLED

Dennis Lehmkuhl (Caltech/Einstein Papers).

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

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Disaggregating goods

Please note change of day and time

Mariam Thalos (University of Utah).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

John Tresch (University of Pennsylvania).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The homelands of the plague: Soviet disease ecology in Central Asia, 1920s–1950s

Susan Jones (University of Minnesota).

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

Thursday 15 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Yikes! Why did past-me say he'd give a talk on future discounting?

Craig Callender (University of California, San Diego).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Machine learning, social learning and self-driving cars

Jack Stilgoe (UCL).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

No interpretation of probability

Wolfgang Schwarz (University of Edinburgh).

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

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Sugar, science and the history of capitalism

David Singerman (University of Virginia).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

People's vital minimum: canteens and nutrition science in industrial China

Seung-joon Lee (National University of Singapore).

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

Thursday 01 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Dr Watson: the impending automation of medical diagnosis and treatment

Bennett Holman (Yonsei University).

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

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Modelling at the border of experimental and theoretical practice in physics

Casey McCoy (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Even observables change in Hamiltonian general relativity

J. Brian Pitts (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Making sense of art and science

Charlotte Sleigh (University of Kent).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Ether: the multiple lives of a resilient concept

Jaume Navarro (University of the Basque Country).

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

Thursday 18 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What's the point of Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World?

Emily Thomas (Durham University).

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

Wednesday 06 December 2017, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Representing and explaining: the eikonic conception of explanation

Alisa Bokulich (Boston University).

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

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 13:00-14:30

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

Saul Dubow (Faculty of History).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Quantum Bayesianism: the ineffable reality behind 'participatory realism'

Harvey Brown (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A bold hypothesis about pursuit

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

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The structure of structure: how Kuhn establishes that science requires historical explanation

Paul A. Roth (University of California, Santa Cruz).

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

Thursday 16 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Reviving analytical philosophy of history

Paul A. Roth (University of California, Santa Cruz).

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

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

John Brewer (California Institute of Technology).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Neuro-empire: rise of a medical-scientific discipline in modern Japan

Bernhard Leitner (University of Vienna).

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

Thursday 09 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Causal decision theory and tragic evidence: Death in Damascus revisited

Melissa Fusco (Columbia University).

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

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 13:00-14:30

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

Sandra Harding (UCLA).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

'The battle is on': Lakatos, Feyerabend and the student protests

Eric Martin (Baylor University).

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

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Robin Scheffler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The principle of stability

Sam Fletcher (University of Minnesota).

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

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Charu Singh (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

A struggle for the Soviet future: the birth of scientific forecasting in the Soviet Union

Eglė Rindzevičiūtė (Kingston University).

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

Thursday 19 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The perils of p-hacking and the promise of pre-analysis plans

Jacob Stegenga (with Zoë Hitzig) (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What is quantum theory actually telling us about the world? The 'relational' interpretation

Please note earlier time

Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille University).

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

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 12:00-13:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

German émigré scientists and engineers and aeronautics in India

Jahnavi Phalkey (King's College London).

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

Thursday 05 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Listening to the chirps: how do the LIGO results test general relativity?

Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech).

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

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Scientific habits circa 1900

Henry Cowles (Yale University).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The Theory Theory 2.0: Bayesian models, causal inference and cognitive development

Alison Gopnik (University of California, Berkeley).

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

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 13:00-14:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Listening to scientists' stories: using the British Library's 'An Oral History of British Science' archive

Ruth Wainman (University of Kent).

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

Thursday 11 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

How can we homologize holobionts, and whose lineage matters?

Catherine Kendig (Michigan State University).

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

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The materials for trust-building in expertise

Heather Douglas (University of Waterloo).

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

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

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

Lena Springer (Needham Research Institute).

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

Thursday 04 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Affine balance: algebraic spacetime functionalism as a guide to identifying spacetime

Tushar Menon (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Climate in word and image: science and the Austrian idea

Deborah Coen (Columbia University).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Why the priority rule does not exist

Remco Heesen (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

William Ashworth (University of Liverpool).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The Anthropocene seen by the Anopheles: fighting malarial mosquitoes with chemicals in modern China, 1910s–1960s

Shen Yubin (Georgetown University).

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

Thursday 09 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

A biologically informed hylomorphism

Christopher Austin (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 13:00-14:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Disappearing big cats and multiplying man-eaters in the Indian Anthropocene

Nayanika Mathur (University of Sussex).

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

Thursday 02 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Ecological factors of attraction and causal explanation in cultural attractor theory

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

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

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Animal sentience and human values

Jonathan Birch (LSE).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Towards a more realistic subjective decision theory

Yang Liu (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

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

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

On reasonable doubt

Marion Vorms (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Pragmatist coherence as the source of truth and reality

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

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

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Tara Nummedal (Brown University).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

'The Grammar of the Semi-Exact Sciences': Norbert Wiener in India, 1955–1956

Poornima Paidipaty (Faculty of History).

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

Thursday 09 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Delusional cognition as explanation

Matthew Parrott (KCL).

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

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The greening alliance: environment, development and the North-Atlantic Treaty Organization

Simone Turchetti (University of Manchester).

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

Thursday 02 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Why common cause explanation is not the main business of historical reconstruction

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

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

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

James Sumner (University of Manchester).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Wishful speaking: science, truth and dictatorship

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

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

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 13:00-14:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Imaging the cytoskeleton – re-defining a biological entity with fluorescent antibodies

Hanna Lucia Worliczek (University of Vienna).

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

Thursday 01 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Assessing scientific theories

Stephan Hartmann (LMU, Munich).

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

Wednesday 30 November 2016, 13:00-14:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Eugenic sterilization in California: from demographic analysis to digital storytelling

Alexandra Minna Stern (University of Michigan).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Newton's laws and epistemic amplification

Kirsten Walsh (University of Nottingham).

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

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Richard Powell (University of Oxford).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

A science in translation: homoeopathy in colonial Bengal

Shinjini Das (CRASSH).

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

Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What makes econophysics distinctive?

James Weatherall (University of California, Irvine).

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

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Embodied and situated moods

Giovanna Colombetti (University of Exeter).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Delusional cognition as explanation

CANCELLED

Matthew Parrott (KCL).

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

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Mechanisms and natural kinds

Emma Tobin (UCL).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

A controlled environment: phytotrons, Cold War life science, and the making of the experimental plant

David Munns (John Jay College).

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

Thursday 27 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Risk aversion and the long run

Johanna Thoma (LSE).

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

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Some sociological aspects of the detection of gravitational waves

Harry Collins (Cardiff University).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Comparative uncertainties: comparing comparisons in anthropology and animal behaviour science

Matei Candea (Division of Social Anthropology).

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

Thursday 20 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Belief and statistical evidence

Arif Ahmed (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Using organic chemistry to probe the limits of interventionism

Georgina Statham (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 13:00-14:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Images as artefacts: film, photography and repatriation in Kenya

Sloan Mahone (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 06 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

The emergence of bargaining inequity

Cailin O'Connor (University of California, Irvine).

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

Friday 09 September 2016, 16:00-17:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The inconsistency of quantum electrodynamics: a history

Alex Blum (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

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

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 13:00-14:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The pre-history of peer review: refereeing practices at the Royal Society

Aileen Fyfe (University of St Andrews).

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

Thursday 19 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Coffee with Scientists

How to study fire

Jenni Sidey (Research Associate, Department of Engineering).

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

Friday 13 May 2016, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Why genetics succeeds: an epistemology of scientific practice

C. Kenneth Waters (University of Calgary).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Unveiling the world? Aerial photographs and the social sciences in interwar France

Serge Reubi (Humboldt University, Berlin/Cambridge).

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

Thursday 12 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

No general structure

C. Kenneth Waters (University of Calgary).

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

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 13:00-14:30

Coffee with Scientists

The technological singularity: superintelligent machines and the future of humanity

Murray Shanahan (Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Imperial College London).

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

Friday 06 May 2016, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Cathy Gere (University of California, San Diego).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What's nu? Maxwell's electrical metrology and the electromagnetic theory of light reappraised

Daniel Mitchell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 04 May 2016, 13:00-14:30

Coffee with Scientists

How should scientists quantify academic value?

Alecia Carter (Research Fellow, Churchill College and Department of Zoology).

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

Friday 29 April 2016, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The science of wishing: Francis Bacon and the magical optative

Vera Keller (University of Oregon).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Builders of the vision

Daniel Cardoso Llach (Carnegie Mellon University/Cambridge).

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

Thursday 28 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Hierarchical transition modes of biological systems are evolvable

David Crawford (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 13:00-14:30

Coffee with Scientists

Data-driven versus hypothesis-driven science

Steve Oliver (Professor of Systems Biology and Biochemistry; Director of the Cambridge Systems Biology Centre).

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

Friday 22 April 2016, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Unifying theories: some lessons from the Cartwright-Smith exchange

Nic Teh (University of Notre Dame).

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

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 13:00-14:30

Coffee with Scientists

The second messenger concept – how the discovery of cyclic AMP dominated cell biology for 60 years

Dermot Cooper (Department of Pharmacology).

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

Friday 04 March 2016, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

'A day of comparatively small things': spatial anxiety in the high British Empire

Tom Simpson (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge).

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

Thursday 03 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Prediction and medicine

Alex Broadbent (University of Johannesburg).

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

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Cunning, killer orchids

Jim Endersby (University of Sussex).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Entangled histories: enactivism, representationalism and Frederic Bartlett

Ruth Hibbert (University of Kent).

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

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 13:00-14:30

Coffee with Scientists

Did the earth sciences have a 20th-century revolution?

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

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

Friday 19 February 2016, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Brainwashing the cybernetic subject: The Ipcress File and fantasies of interrogation in the 1960s

Marcia Holmes (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Thursday 18 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Explanatory abstractions

Juha Saatsi (University of Leeds).

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

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 13:00-14:30

Coffee with Scientists

Are we tackling the causes of global warming effectively?

Sir David King (Foreign Secretary's Special Representative on Climate Change).

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

Friday 12 February 2016, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Paola Bertucci (Yale University).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Measurement error and the problem of quantity individuation

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

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

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Visual tools in seventeenth-century medical education

Sietske Fransen (CRASSH).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The impact of machines

Henry K. Miller (Slade School of Fine Art, UCL).

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

Thursday 04 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The problem of confirmation in the Everett interpretation

Emily Adlam (Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics).

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

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Extracting the exotic: global chymical medicine in the seventeenth century

Hjalmar Fors (Uppsala University).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

CSER and the Leverhulme CFI: how, what and where next

Huw Price (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Travelling texts: notes on early modern geography and Hebraism

Zur Shalev (University of Haifa).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Does time seem to pass?

Natalja Deng (Faculty of Divinity).

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

Wednesday 20 January 2016, 13:00-14:30

Coffee with Scientists

The Scharnhorst Effect: faster-than-light propagation and causality in the Casimir vacuum

Sybil de Clark (University of Arizona).

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

Monday 18 January 2016, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

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

Michael Stolberg (University of Würzburg).

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

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

Coffee with Scientists

Science education

Eugene Kang (Pusan University) and Keith Taber (Education, Cambridge).

Board Room, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Friday 04 December 2015, 14:30-16:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

On geometrical concepts, proofs and understanding in pure and applied mathematics

Maria Serban (LSE).

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

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Robert Bud (Science Museum, London).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Three junctures of science and democracy: knowledge, value and policy

Sang Wook Yi (Hanyang University).

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

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Bryan Roberts (LSE).

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

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

Coffee with Scientists

Behavioural flexibility in birds and beyond

Corina Logan (Department of Zoology).

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

Friday 13 November 2015, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Magic bullets

Jacob Stegenga (University of Victoria).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Absolute measures of effectiveness

Jacob Stegenga (University of Victoria).

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

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Jeff Hughes (University of Manchester).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Imprecise credences and the probabilistic liar

Catrin Campbell-Moore (Corpus Christi College).

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

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 13:00-14:30

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)

Seymour Mauskopf (Duke University).

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

Monday 02 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Coffee with Scientists

A 21st-century biologist looks at Sir Isaac Newton

Margaret Ann Goldstein (Baylor College of Medicine, and Clare Hall).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Samir Boumediene (Faculty of History).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Simulating scientific merit dynamics

Shahar Avin (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

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

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:30

Coffee with Scientists

Making archaeological knowledge

Alison Wylie (University of Washington, and Durham University) and John Robb (Archaeology, Cambridge).

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

Friday 23 October 2015, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Alison Wylie (University of Washington).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Expecting misleading evidence

Bernhard Salow (Trinity College, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

To explain the Scientific Revolution by means of comparison

Special Joint Needham Research Institute and HPS Seminar

Floris Cohen (Utrecht University).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

On the movements and value of research data

Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The argument from the good lot: unconceived alternatives and 20th-century genetics

Raphael Scholl (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Idealization, abstraction and the ontic view of explanation

Marta Halina (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Filming Fore, shooting scientists: medical research and documentary film

Warwick Anderson (University of Sydney).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Intolerant bodies: on biological individuality and writing with scientists

Warwick Anderson (University of Sydney).

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

Thursday 14 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

There is no problem of interpersonal comparisons

Erik Angner (George Mason University).

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

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The beauty of science without the science of beauty

Angela Breitenbach (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

International Paretianism: a palatable response to climate change?

Katie Steele (LSE).

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

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 13:00-14:30

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

Simon Naylor (University of Glasgow).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Bypassing the brave new world: reporting transgenic mice in the early 1980s

Dmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Thursday 30 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

From the biological self to psychological self

Catherine Wilson (University of York).

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

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Mendel the fraud? A social history of truth in genetics

Greg Radick (University of Leeds).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The 'Aeroplane Gaze': looking up in 1909

Patrick Ellis (University of California, Berkeley).

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

Thursday 12 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The philosophical role of illness

CANCELLED

Havi Carel (University of Bristol).

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

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Julie Anderson (University of Kent).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Performing and mediating science on television

Tim Boon (Science Museum, London).

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

Thursday 05 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The metaphysics of race: distinctions without any differences

Christopher Clarke (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The shifting economies of measurement uncertainty

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

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Psychometric validation as theory avoidance

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

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

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Towards a history of interactivity (through interactive objects)

Arne Schirrmacher (Humboldt University, Berlin).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The epidemiologist as culture hero: visualising humanity in the age of 'the next pandemic'

Christos Lynteris (CRASSH, Cambridge).

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

Thursday 19 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Emergent chance (jointly authored with Marcus Pivato)

Christian List (London School of Economics and Political Science).

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

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Frank Uekotter (University of Birmingham).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Pragmatism and the possibility of (no) naturalistic metaphysics

Jonathan Knowles (NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

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

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Cause, causatives and theories of causation

Julian Reiss (Durham University).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' – the myth of the mad scientist in early horror films

Vanessa Toulmin (University of Sheffield).

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

Thursday 05 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Does the missing fundamental require an inferentialist explanation?

Jenny Judge (Centre for Music and Science, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The rationality of science in relation to its history

Sherrilyn Roush (King's College London).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Kinds and degrees of (scientific) understanding

Henk de Regt (VU University Amsterdam).

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

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Poster display tactics as photographic arguments

Kelley Wilder (De Montfort University).

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

Thursday 22 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The subterranean influence of pragmatism on the Vienna Circle: Peirce, Ramsey, Wittgenstein

Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto).

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

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 13:00-14:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

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

Rebecca Flemming (Faculty of Classics).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Causation and prediction in epidemiology

Alex Broadbent (University of Johannesburg).

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

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Jane Squire's early modern adventures: 'I see not why I should confine myself to needles, cards, and dice'

Alexi Baker (CRASSH and Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 01 December 2014, 13:00-14:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Brendan Clarke (University College London).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Indecent science: religion, science and movie censorship, 1930–1968

David A. Kirby (University of Manchester).

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

Thursday 27 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Interventionist causation and the placement problem

Shyane Siriwardena (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Collecting natural history: Sloane's 'Vegetable Substances'

Victoria Pickering (Queen Mary University of London and Natural History Museum, London).

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

Monday 24 November 2014, 13:00-14:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

Please note change of date and time

Eleanor Knox (King's College London).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Friday 21 November 2014, 14:00-15:30

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

Howard Hotson (University of Oxford).

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

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

Cabinet of Natural History

W.B. Carpenter and the wonder of microscopy

Emma Pyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 17 November 2014, 13:00-14:15

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Visual STS

Peter Galison (Harvard University).

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

Thursday 13 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Things don't fall apart: persistence and functional explanation in social science

Adrian Boutel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Natural history on the move: John Ray's continental travels, 1663–1666

Christopher D. Preston (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology).

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

Monday 10 November 2014, 13:00-14:15

Cabinet of Natural History

The role of instruments in exploration: the RGS and its explorers, c.1830–1900

Jane Wess (University of Edinburgh).

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

Monday 03 November 2014, 13:00-14:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

New perspectives on the Great Exhibition

Geoffrey Cantor (University College London).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Brownian motion pictures

Charlotte Bigg (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris).

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

Thursday 30 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Farewell to content

Kim Sterelny (Australian National University).

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

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Causation as a thermodynamic phenomenon

David Papineau (King's College London).

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

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Accuracy-first epistemology

Richard Pettigrew (University of Bristol).

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

Wednesday 15 October 2014, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Inclusive fitness, group selection and human sociality

Jonathan Birch (Christ's College, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

There are mechanisms – and then there are mechanisms

Nancy Cartwright (Durham University and UCSD).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

A sociology of algorithms: high-frequency trading and the shaping of markets

Donald MacKenzie (University of Edinburgh).

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

Thursday 15 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Why do societies work? Persistence and functional explanation

POSTPONED

Adrian Boutel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan University).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The special science dilemma and how culture solves it

Marion Godman (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

X-rayed maize and mutant marigolds: a history of early plant biotechnologies

Helen Curry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Thursday 01 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The scientific method: ignorance, uncertainty, doubt, failure...

Stuart Firestein (Columbia University).

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

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Harvey Brown (University of Oxford).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Nomic truth approximation by revising models and postulates in the light of increasing evidence

Theo Kuipers (University of Groningen).

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

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Generic speech acts and social kinds

Rae Langton (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Triangulation of phenomena

Caterina Marchionni (University of Helsinki).

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

Wednesday 05 March 2014, 13:00-14:30

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

Sandra Cavallo (Royal Holloway).

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

Tuesday 04 March 2014, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Stephen Pumfrey (Lancaster University).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

'The monster'? The British popular press and nuclear culture, 1945–1960s

Adrian Bingham (University of Sheffield).

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

Thursday 27 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Infinitesimal probabilities

Leon Horsten (University of Bristol).

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

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

From reductionism towards integration: systems biology as a scientific social movement

Niki Vermeulen (University of Manchester).

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

Tuesday 25 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Catherine Jami (CNRS-SPHERE, Paris).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Inference to the best explanation and paradigms

Alexander Bird (University of Bristol).

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

Wednesday 19 February 2014, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Two views of linguistic science and its data

Shane Glackin (University of Exeter).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Acid fallout: the 1980s US scientific and political debates on the atmospheric transport of sulphur dioxide

Milena Wazeck (University of East Anglia).

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

Thursday 13 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

How we manage to manage 'knowledge': using computational infrastructures in semantic systems biology

Sophia Efstathiou (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

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

Wednesday 12 February 2014, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Human nature: from theory to practice

Tim Lewens (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 05 February 2014, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Demotic mathematics and modernism's shipwrecked poetics of insurance

Alice Bamford (Faculty of English).

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

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

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Framing the nuclear: the psychology of British governmental nuclear decision making

Richard Maguire (University of East Anglia).

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

Thursday 30 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The epistemic innocence project

Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham).

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

Wednesday 29 January 2014, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Information channels and biomarkers of disease

Phyllis Illari (UCL).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Propensities and pragmatism

Mauricio Suarez (Complutense University of Madrid).

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

Wednesday 22 January 2014, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The multiple inventions of transgenic mice

Dmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 21 January 2014, 17:00-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

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

Malcolm Nicolson (University of Glasgow).

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

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

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

Please note change of date

David Teplow (UCLA).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The plurality of priority

Kerry McKenzie (University of Calgary).

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

Wednesday 04 December 2013, 13:00-14:30

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.1939–1984

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

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Towards a unified model of a human being

Christina Toren (University of St Andrews).

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

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Laurence Totelin (Cardiff University).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

On the evolutionary origins of morality

Matteo Mameli (King's College London).

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

Wednesday 20 November 2013, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Causal assessment and the question of stability

Feredica Russo (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Gestalt switches in the prize paper: inspiration for, but not an instance of, chaos

Lena Zuchowski (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Talking to our selves: reflection, scepticism and agency

John Doris (Washington University in St Louis).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The topology of intertheoretic reduction

Sam Fletcher (UC Irvine).

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

Wednesday 06 November 2013, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Armchair science

Robert Northcott (Birkbeck).

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

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 13:00-14:30

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

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

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Individual risk: does it exist?

Phil Dawid (Statistical Laboratory, Univeristy of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 23 October 2013, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

A processual perspective on biology

John Dupré (University of Exeter).

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

Wednesday 16 October 2013, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Epistemic humility

Ian Kidd (Durham University).

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

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The problem of inductive risk and the ethics of communication

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

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Two views on the relation between causality and probability

Donald Gillies (UCL).

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

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Knowing and understanding

Paulina Sliwa (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Gerald Kutcher (Binghamton University).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Isaac Newton's scientific method

William Harper (University of Western Ontario).

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

Wednesday 01 May 2013, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The social epistemology of the International Panel on Climate Change

Stephen John (HPS, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 13:00-14:30

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

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

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

How autonomous are social scientific explanations?

Christopher Clarke (HPS, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Herophilus of Chalcedon on the soul and the nervous system

David Leith (Faculty of Classics).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Does psychological knowledge presuppose self-knowledge? A Kantian perspective

Katharina Kraus (HPS, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Real change happens in general relativity, even in Hamiltonian form

Brian Pitts (Philosophy, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 13:00-14:30

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

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

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

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

HPS History Workshop

Governing for happiness: Mark Abrams, the Central Statistical Office and the development of subjective social indicators

Scott Anthony (Faculty of History).

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

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Winchgenstein and functional explanation

Adrian Boutel (HPS, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Selection and maximization

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

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Domain specificity in protein classification: a problem for monism

Emma Tobin (UCL).

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

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

What pluralism could be and might do

Tim Button (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Dysfunction and biological variation: a problem for SE accounts of functions

Elselijn Kingma (HPS, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 30 January 2013, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Poet of progress: serendipity and the search for Erasmus Darwin

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

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The problem of double-counting evidence illustrated by climate science

Charlotte Werndl (LSE).

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

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 13:00-14:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

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

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

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

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

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

What the small print in the early medieval penitentials tells us about abortion

Marianne Elsakkers (Utrecht University).

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

Friday 07 December 2012, 17:30-19:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Modality in decision theory

Arif Ahmed (Philosophy, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Lanford's theorem and the emergence of irreversibility

Giovanni Valente (University of Pittsburgh).

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

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Aesthetics in science

Angela Breitenbach (Philosophy, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Ingenuity in the gallery

Alex Marr (Department of History of Art).

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Altruism and relatedness in microbial populations

Jonathan Birch (HPS, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

A Humean alternative on what there is

Adam Caulton (Philosophy, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 31 October 2012, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Reasoning about well-being: between psychometrics and philosophy

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

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The meaning of 'kilogram'

Sally Riordan (Stanford University).

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

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

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

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Catharine Cockburn on substantival space: a 'new' 18th-century solution

Emily Thomas (Philosophy, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 17 October 2012, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

All possible perspectives: a defence of Eddington's selective subjectivism

Dean Rickles (University of Sydney).

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

Wednesday 10 October 2012, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The sciences of subjectivity

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

Steven Shapin (Harvard University).

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

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

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Why did Darwin change his mind about sex ratio?

Elliott Sober (Wisconson, Madison).

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

Friday 25 May 2012, 14:00-15:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Urban modernity: reconsidering Paris from 1852 to 1914

Miriam R. Levin (Case Western Reserve University).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Colonial classification

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

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Metaphors, similarities and inferences

Mauricio Suárez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid and LSE).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How to count organisms

Ellen Clarke (All Souls College, Oxford).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Irma Taavitsainen (University of Helsinki).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Scientific perspectivism and its foes

Michela Massimi (University College London).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Time's arrow and Eddington's challenge

Huw Price (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Revisiting the Mendelian revolution

Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Exeter).

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

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

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, 1858–65

Josipa Petrunic (University of Toronto).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Abigail Woods (Imperial College London).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Singularist semirealism

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

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Xavier Roqué (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Robin Findlay Hendry (Durham University).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Emma Spary (Faculty of History).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Decision making under indeterminacy

Robbie Williams (University of Leeds).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Leprosy and identity in medieval Rouen

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

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Learning by doodling: Augustus De Morgan's logical diagrams

Joan Richards (Brown University).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How much pluralism?

James Ladyman (University of Bristol).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A history of a tenth of a second

Jimena Canales (Harvard University).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Helen Beebee (University of Birmingham).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Simone Turchetti (University of Manchester).

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

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

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

Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Alchemy as 'practical exegesis' in early-modern England

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

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Donald Gillies (UCL).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Health and disease: beyond naturalism and normativism

Ellie Kingma (King's College London).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

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

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Miruna Achim (Universidad Autómona Metropolitana, Mexico City).

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

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

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

Chitra Ramalingam (Science Museum and CRASSH, Cambridge).

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

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