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

'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Philosophy Events

Inaugural Lecture: Where would we be without counterfactuals?

Huw Price (Faculty of Philosophy).

LB3, Lecture Block, Sidgwick Site.

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

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

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

Scientific pluralism and the mission of history and philosophy of science

Inaugural Lecture by Professor Hasok Chang

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

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3.

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

The sciences of subjectivity

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

Steven Shapin (Harvard University).

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

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

Rausing Lecture

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

Seventeenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Thomas Schlich (McGill University).

Room 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

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

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

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

'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rausing Lecture

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

Sixteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Celina Fox.

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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

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

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

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

'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rausing Lecture

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

Fifteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

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

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

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

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

Katherine Angel (University of Warwick).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Justice and automated match officiating

Harry Collins (Cardiff University).

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

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

Epistemic risk and public health science

Mark Parascandola (National Institutes of Health, USA).

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

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

The solution to the problem of mental causation

Tim Crane (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

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

Dissolving a Darwinian dilemma for moral realism

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

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

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

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

Luc Bovens (LSE).

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

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

The credit crisis as a problem in the sociology of knowledge

Donald Mackenzie (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

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

Anna Maerker (Oxford Brookes University).

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

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

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

Jeremy Howick (UCL).

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

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

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

Simon Werrett (University of Washington, Seattle).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

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

Angus McLaren (University of Victoria).

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

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

Picturability and the mathematical ideals of knowledge: Leibniz versus Newton

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

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

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

Dynamic (bio)ontologies for good epistemology

Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter).

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

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

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

Melanie Keene (Homerton College, Cambridge).

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

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

Social knowing

Alexander Bird (University of Bristol).

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

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

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

John Worrall (London School of Economics).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Valedictory Lecture

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

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

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

Rausing Lecture

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

Fourteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Pamela H. Smith (Columbia University).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

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

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

Guy Ortolano (University of Virginia).

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

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

Experimental religion and experimental natural philosophy in early modern England

Peter Harrison (University of Oxford).

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

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

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

Sonu Shamdasani (University College London).

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

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

Causation, models of disease and epidemiology

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

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

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

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

Mark Jackson (University of Exeter).

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

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

On recent work on faultless disagreement

Max Kolbel (University of Barcelona).

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

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

Consensus and disagreement in science

Stephan Hartmann (Tilburg University).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Louis Sass (Rutgers University, New Jersey).

CRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

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

Narratives in Greek mathematics?

Markus Asper (New York University).

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

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

History and philosophy of regulatory science: the case of pharmaceuticals

John Abraham (University of Sussex).

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

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

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

Mario Biagioli (Harvard University).

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

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

Thinking 'through numbers'

Hélène Mialet (Harvard University).

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

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

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

Rayna Rapp (New York University).

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

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

Imagined experiments: molecular modelling and make-believe

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

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

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

Phlogiston revisited: an argument for scientific pluralism

Hasok Chang (University College London).

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

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

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

Roger Smith (Lancaster University / Durham University).

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

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

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

Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute).

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

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

The shape of the conceptual

Charles Travis (King's College London).

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

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

A Roman engineer’s tales

Serafina Cuomo (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

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

The new riddle of causation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rausing Lecture

Shaping postwar Europe: science, technology and American soft power

Thirteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

John Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology).

Room 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

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

The 'mechanical hypothesis' in Ancient Greek natural philosophy

Sylvia Berryman (University of British Columbia).

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

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

What is an organism?

John Dupré (University of Exeter).

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

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

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

Andrew Barker (University of Birmingham).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Walking as a problem of the nineteenth century

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

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

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

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

Tara Nummedal (Brown University).

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

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

Rival theories of the aerofoil: 1909-1926

David Bloor (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

Thatcher, scientist

Jon Agar (University College London).

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

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

Natural purposes, Kantian analogies and environmental ethics

Angela Breitenbach (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge).

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

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

Biographical medicine: London consultants explain disease

Harry M. Marks (Johns Hopkins University).

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

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

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

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

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

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

Spinoza on law and sovereignty

Susan James (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

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

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

Ayesha Nathoo (Clare Hall, Cambridge).

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

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

Are there Lewis conventions?

Francesco Guala (University of Exeter).

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

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

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

Alisha Rankin (Trinity College, Cambridge).

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

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

Practical reasoning and inference

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

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

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

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

Alice Jenkins (University of Glasgow and CRASSH).

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

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

Rausing Lecture

Music and technology studies: from the Moog synthesizer to ACIDplanet.com

The Twelfth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Trevor Pinch (Cornell University).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Thursday 24 May 2007, 16:30-18:00

Williamson on knowledge

Quassim Cassam (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Thursday 10 May 2007, 16:30-18:00

Kepler as chronologer

Anthony Grafton (Princeton University).

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

Thursday 03 May 2007, 16:30-18:00

Chymistry and colours: alchemy, matter theory and optics in the early work of Isaac Newton

William Newman (Indiana University).

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

Thursday 26 April 2007, 16:30-18:00

Anatomical politics and urban transformation in Vienna, 1848–1945

Tatjana Buklijas (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

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

Reference failure: why worry?

Christina McLeish (St Catharine's College and Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

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

From manifest image to Musgrave's problem: some comments on van Fraassen's epistemology

Paul Dicken (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

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

Francis Bacon and the art-nature distinction

Sophie Weeks (Homerton College and Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Doctors, motherhood and insanity of childbirth in Victorian Britain

Hilary Marland (University of Warwick).

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

Thursday 23 November 2006, 16:30-18:00

Agreement and the new relativism (work in progress)

John Hawthorne (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 16 November 2006, 16:30-18:00

Making truth or masking lies: the triumph of the Conards

Michael Wintroub (University of California, Berkeley).

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

Thursday 09 November 2006, 16:30-18:00

Perceptual knowledge and discrimination (work in progress)

Duncan Pritchard (University of Stirling).

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

Thursday 02 November 2006, 16:30-18:00