What does 'achromatic' mean? Refractions on the construction of early achromatic telescope lenses

Anita McConnell Lecture

Michael Korey (Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon of the Dresden State Art Collections).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 15:30-17:00

A problem for determining the structural features of experience: a pessimistic meta-induction

Fiona Macpherson (University of Glasgow).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 15:30-17:00

Models of information in structural biology

Agnes Bolinska (University of South Carolina).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 15:30-17:00

Mary Hesse Lecture

In praise of the inexact, the inelegant and the unassuming

First Annual Mary Hesse Lecture in the Philosophy and History of Science

Nancy Cartwright (Durham University, and University of California, San Diego).

Old Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 15:00-16:30

Rausing Lecture

Technology and interconnection in Southeast Asia's longue durée

Twenty-Eighth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Suzanne Moon (University of Oklahoma).

The Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

Thursday 30 May 2024, 16:00-17:30

Gerd Buchdahl, Kantian philosopher of science

Nick Jardine (History and Philosophy of Science) and Angela Breitenbach (Philosophy).

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

Thursday 23 May 2024, 15:30-17:00

Opening the West with Japanese mermaid mummies: ningyo in the making of the theory of evolution

Mateja Kovacic (Hong Kong Baptist University).

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

Thursday 16 May 2024, 15:30-17:00

Cocoon cultures: the (dis)entangling of silk and biology in Japan

Lisa Onaga (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

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

Thursday 09 May 2024, 15:30-17:00

Volcanoes and their lovers: a brief and biased history of volcanology

Clive Oppenheimer (Department of Geography).

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

Thursday 02 May 2024, 15:30-17:00

Algorithmic diagnosis and the problem of statistical evidence

CANCELLED

Sune Hannibal Holm (University of Copenhagen).

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

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

Biotechnological artefacts and the in vivo/in vitro problem

Emma Tobin (University College London).

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

Thursday 07 March 2024, 15:30-17:00

Split and splice: a phenomenology of experimentation

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (MPIWG).

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

Thursday 29 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

Risky sex data: precision medicine, big data and the ossification of a sex binary

Marion Boulicault (University of Edinburgh).

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

Thursday 22 February 2024, 15:30-17:00

Conceptualising climate futures

Säde Hormio (University of Helsinki).

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

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

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

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

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

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

In defense of the medical model of obesity

Andreas De Block (KU Leuven).

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

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

PhD Showcase

Various speakers.

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

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

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

Amanda Lanzillo (Brunel University London).

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

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

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

Peder Roberts (University of Stavanger).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

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

Lifecycle of a constant: e

Alistair Isaac (University of Edinburgh).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

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

Where inattention pays

Jingyi Wu (London School of Economics).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

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

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

McConnell Lecture

Catherine Eagleton (University of St Andrews).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

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

Lineages as evolving processes

John Dupré (University of Exeter).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

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

Photography and the art of science in nineteenth-century India

David Arnold (University of Warwick).

Arts School Lecture Theatre A.

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

Rausing Lecture

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

Twenty-Seventh Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Paul N. Edwards (Stanford University).

The Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

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

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

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

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

Expertise as perspectives in dialogue

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

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

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

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

Gregory Radick (University of Leeds).

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

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

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

CANCELLED

Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham).

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

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

Rationalizing discrimination

Zeynep Pamuk (LSE).

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

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

Celebrating an anniversary in the history of science

CANCELLED

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sham matings and other shenanigans: on animal homosexuality

Pieter R. Adriaens (KU Leuven, Belgium).

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

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

Rausing Lecture

Environing technologies – shaping, seeing, sense-making

Twenty-Sixth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

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

Department of Zoology, Main Lecture Theatre.

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

Brave new future: a realistic ELSI of ectogestation

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

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

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

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

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

Hopkinson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

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

Learning (to learn) from others

Richard Moore (University of Warwick).

Zoom.

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

When models migrate: the epistemic pitfalls of model transfer

Axel Gelfert (Technische Universität Berlin).

Zoom.

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

Epistemic bunkers

Katherine Furman (University of Liverpool).

Zoom.

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

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

CANCELLED

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

Zoom.

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

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

CANCELLED

Megan Barford (Royal Museums Greenwich).

Zoom.

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

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

Alexander Bird (Faculty of Philosophy).

Zoom.

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

Exhibiting imperial entanglements in science museums

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

Zoom.

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

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

Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard University).

Zoom.

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

Causal explanation and revealed preferences

Kate Vredenburgh (London School of Economics).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

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

Physical computations are idealisations

Mark Sprevak (University of Edinburgh).

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

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

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

Vera Keller (University of Oregon).

Zoom.

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

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

McConnell Lecture

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

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

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

Cultural groups, essentialism, and ontic risk

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

Mill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

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

Rausing Lecture

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

Twenty-Fifth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

María M. Portuondo (Johns Hopkins University).

The Theatre, Peterhouse.

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

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

Sean Valles (Michigan State University).

Zoom.

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

Islamic science, cultural difference and colonization

Harun Küçük (University of Pennsylvania).

Zoom.

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

Futures

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

Zoom.

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

World models and intuition in the 1970s

Sarah Dry (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

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

Data agnosticism in medical emergencies: a tale from the past

David Teira (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia).

Zoom.

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

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

Richard Noakes (University of Exeter).

Zoom.

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

Drawing processes

Chiara Ambrosio (University College London).

Zoom.

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

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

Tiago Saraiva (Drexel University).

Zoom.

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

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

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

Sasha Turner (Johns Hopkins University).

Zoom.

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

Race, science and literary studies in the 21st century

Josie Gill (University of Bristol).

Zoom.

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

Truth AND consequences

Polly Mitchell (King's College London).

Zoom.

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

How does process tracing work?

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

Zoom.

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

How to study animal minds

HPS Virtual Conversation

See description.

Zoom.

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

Do we live in a post-truth era?

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

Zoom.

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

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

Noémi Tousignant (University College London).

Zoom.

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

A material history of 16th-century astronomy?

Anita McConnell Lecture

Jim Bennett (University of Oxford, emeritus).

Zoom.

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

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

Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh).

Zoom.

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

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

Henrice Altink (University of York).

Zoom.

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

Virtual Conversation: Citizen Science

See description.

Zoom.

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

Virtual Conversation: Central European Science in Perspective

See description.

Zoom.

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

Virtual Conversation: Calculating Trust

See description.

Zoom.

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

Virtual Conversation: Legacies of Early Modern Colonial Science

See description.

Zoom.

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

Virtual Conversation: Histories of Medicine for the 21st Century

See description.

Zoom.

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

Virtual Conversation: Pandemic and Policy

See description.

Zoom.

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

'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rausing Lecture

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

Twenty-Fourth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Ruth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rausing Lecture

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

Twenty-Third Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Andreas Malm (Lund University).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rausing Lecture

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

Twenty-Second Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Lissa Roberts (University of Twente).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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

Rausing Lecture

Reclaiming conversation: our new silent spring in a digital age

Twenty-First Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Sherry Turkle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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

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

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

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

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

Rausing Lecture

Metallurgy and Chinese civilisation: an historical overview

Twentieth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Jianjun Mei (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rausing Lecture

Waste, value and radioactive excess in Africa

Nineteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Gabrielle Hecht (University of Michigan).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

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

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

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

'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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

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

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

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

'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

Rausing Lecture

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

Eighteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Crosbie Smith (University of Kent).

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

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

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