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Paul E. Griffiths (University of Sydney & Macquarie University).
Thursday 12 March 2026, 15:30-17:00
Contact: Ian van der Linde
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Sex as a process
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
So friggin' likely: a public choice analysis of bureaucratic science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
AI, automation, and the problem of error in science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Chronic nation: the politics of experts, health and making modern Indian citizens (1940β70s)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Permission to know
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The secret causes of the Castle Bravo accident
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Navigating origin stories: the mariner's compass as a narrative instrument
β οΈ Anita McConnell Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Institutionalizing values and science: the strengths of standardization in troubled times
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reservoirs of venereal diseases: women and medico-moral discourses in Idi Amin's Uganda
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
When is measurement good? Evidence, validity, and values
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The Board of Longitude: Science, Innovation and Empire β book launch event
Mary Hesse Lecture
How scientific plurality and sociality enhance scientific objectivity
β οΈ Second Annual Mary Hesse Lecture
Rausing Lecture
But why here? Space technologies, the logic of location, and the violence of infrastructure
β οΈ Twenty-Ninth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Mobilizing medicine
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Pinosaur redux: whose lives count in histories of extinction?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The emergence of metascience: risks and opportunities
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Doing your own patient activist research
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Disinformation, denial, and the assault on truth
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Creativity for the information age: making up minds and machines in the United States and the Soviet Union
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Unnecessary sleep: opium, the trial of Ann, and the therapeutic dilemma of slavery
β οΈ Cambridge Lecture in the History of Medicine
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Where is Amazonia on display (today)? A global approach to understanding Amazonian collections
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
On conceptual engineering in psychiatry: is it time to eliminate or reappropriate the category of psychiatric disorder?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Science as communication
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Recalculating equality: data, race and environmental health models in 19th-century West Africa
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Pulling away from science, epistemic self-reliance, and the tale of Thabo Mbeki
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The many births of the test-tube baby: proof and publicity in claims to a breakthrough
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
What does 'achromatic' mean? Refractions on the construction of early achromatic telescope lenses
β οΈ Anita McConnell Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A problem for determining the structural features of experience: a pessimistic meta-induction
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Models of information in structural biology
Mary Hesse Lecture
In praise of the inexact, the inelegant and the unassuming
β οΈ First Annual Mary Hesse Lecture in the Philosophy and History of Science
Rausing Lecture
Technology and interconnection in Southeast Asia's longue durΓ©e
β οΈ Twenty-Eighth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Gerd Buchdahl, Kantian philosopher of science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Opening the West with Japanese mermaid mummies: ningyo in the making of the theory of evolution
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cocoon cultures: the (dis)entangling of silk and biology in Japan
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Volcanoes and their lovers: a brief and biased history of volcanology
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Algorithmic diagnosis and the problem of statistical evidence
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Biotechnological artefacts and the in vivo/in vitro problem
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Split and splice: a phenomenology of experimentation
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Risky sex data: precision medicine, big data and the ossification of a sex binary
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Conceptualising climate futures
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Slave trading and the imagination of the quantifiable body in the early modern South Atlantic
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
In defense of the medical model of obesity
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
PhD Showcase
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Pious labour: Islam, artisanship, and technology in colonial India
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The dream of orderly development: selling the importance of science in Arctic North America after 1945
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Lifecycle of a constant: e
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Where inattention pays
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
If technology was the answer, what was the question? Digitisation and digital engagement with scientific collections
β οΈ McConnell Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Lineages as evolving processes
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Photography and the art of science in nineteenth-century India
Rausing Lecture
Technology eats history: time and techno-metabolism in the Anthropocene
β οΈ Twenty-Seventh Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The doctor who wasn't there: technology, history, and the limits of telehealth
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reading modern hands: identity and human types from palmistry to genetics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Norms are like colours: naturalism and the constitutively perspectival
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Expertise as perspectives in dialogue
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A look back at 'Biometrician Versus Mendelian: A Controversy and its Explanation' (1974)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Expertise or perspectives in dialogue? The role of lived experience in the mental health context
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rationalizing discrimination
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Celebrating an anniversary in the history of science
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
What can Covid modelling during the pandemic teach us about public participation in science?
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Live, and let live: medical recipes and technique of the socialized self across the Ming-Qing transition
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Against presence empiricism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Identifying future-proof science
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Knowledge in science and beyond: historiographical challenges and the case of colour history
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A view of technological change through the magic lantern in Japan
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Population biology and the implicit scientific backing of the 'Human Biodiversity' movement
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The philosophical significance of the Representational Theory of Measurement: RTM as semantic foundations
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Coloniality, global health, and reparations
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Sham matings and other shenanigans: on animal homosexuality
Rausing Lecture
Environing technologies β shaping, seeing, sense-making
β οΈ Twenty-Sixth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Brave new future: a realistic ELSI of ectogestation
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Imitation as innovation: recasting the history of technology in modern Korea
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Learning (to learn) from others
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
When models migrate: the epistemic pitfalls of model transfer
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Epistemic bunkers
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The news from Glozel: media, scandal and the making of French archaeology, ca. 1927
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Navigators...will worship at our shrine': making map history at the National Maritime Museum, 1928β1955
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
On the value of the creative imagination in the arts and in the sciences
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Exhibiting imperial entanglements in science museums
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
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Causal explanation and revealed preferences
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Physical computations are idealisations
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Charlatans and the making of research: the undisciplining and redisciplining of experimental philosophy in seventeenth-century Europe
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Tracing scientific instrument makers: the importance of researching the actual objects they made or sold
β οΈ McConnell Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cultural groups, essentialism, and ontic risk
Rausing Lecture
The kinetic Caribbean: technologies of mobility in a pre-modern world
β οΈ Twenty-Fifth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Humility in population health science: lessons for fostering an elder-supportive 'culture of health' after the pandemic
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Islamic science, cultural difference and colonization
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Futures
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
World models and intuition in the 1970s
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Data agnosticism in medical emergencies: a tale from the past
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Messaging Mars and the dead: technology and fiction in Britain, 1900β1939
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Drawing processes
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Guerrilla warfare as sampling: AmΓlcar Cabral, African independence and the writing of transnational history of science
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Doctors v. midwives: Caribbean medical encounters in the age of pronatal abolition
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Race, science and literary studies in the 21st century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Truth AND consequences
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How does process tracing work?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How to study animal minds
β οΈ HPS Virtual Conversation
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Do we live in a post-truth era?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Africa, race and the most expensive vaccine yet: stakes of hepatitis B immunisation research in Senegal and the Gambia
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A material history of 16th-century astronomy?
β οΈ Anita McConnell Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The history of the electric charge c. 1897β1906 through the lenses of perspectival realism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Linking the global and the local: the double burden of child malnutrition in Jamaica, c. 1960β2020
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Virtual Conversation: Citizen Science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Virtual Conversation: Central European Science in Perspective
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Virtual Conversation: Calculating Trust
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Virtual Conversation: Legacies of Early Modern Colonial Science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Virtual Conversation: Histories of Medicine for the 21st Century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Virtual Conversation: Pandemic and Policy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'I am rhapsodic man': Alexander von Humboldt in search of himself
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
On pluralism in psychiatry
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Pick your poison: insecticides and locust control in colonial Kenya
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How atoms became real
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Nonhuman episodic memory, scepticism and psychological kinds
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Directed theories of time and the conventionality of simultaneity
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cooperative division of cognitive labour: the social epistemology of photosynthesis research
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Science and the approximation account of knowledge
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The adoption of Hindu-Arabic numerals in England and Italy, a comparative perspective (13thβ16th centuries)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
CRISPR gene-drive and the war against malaria β the evolutionary ABCs
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
From Kepler's optics to Spinoza's politics: Descartes' turn to the passions
Rausing Lecture
Whose history of technology? Path dependencies, contested modernities, and pockets of persistence
β οΈ Twenty-Fourth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Du Bois' plan for scientific inquiry
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The instrument of science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rethinking industrial patronage of academic research in the early Cold War
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The view from here, there and nowhere? Situating the observer in the planetarium and in the solar system
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
V-Dem: measuring democracy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
History of S&T need an oil bath: oil, scarcity and technoscience in the 1970s
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Beyond correspondence: realism for realistic people
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Past unlimited: the canal of Zabita Khan
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Patient reported outcome measures are different
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Bathing, bloodletting and bed-rest in the high medieval monastery
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Newton's methodology meets Humean supervenience about laws of nature
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
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Creating citizen history of science: science, fiction and the future of the 20th century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Being human, being Homo sapiens
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Probabilistic actual causation
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Material substitutions in historical perspective: the cases of the British Substitutes and Vegetable Drugs Committees during World War Two
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Principia and the air-pump: the social and political roots of Newton's science
Rausing Lecture
Steamroll all the brutes: coal, steam and British Imperialism in mid-nineteenth century Levant and West Africa
β οΈ Twenty-Third Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Giant Power: energy technology and the long history of post-truth
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Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Creatures of Cain: the hunt for human nature in Cold War America
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Explaining the recent 'hiatus' in global warming: models, measurement and media
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Statistical biases in peer review
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Beyond truth-as-correspondence: realism for realistic people
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Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Poison trials, panaceas and proof: debates about testing and testimony in early modern European medicine
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Disaggregating goods
β οΈ Please note change of day and time
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Barnum, Bache and Poe: the forging of science in the Antebellum US
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Machine learning, social learning and self-driving cars
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Sugar, science and the history of capitalism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Modelling at the border of experimental and theoretical practice in physics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Making sense of art and science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Before the big bang of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA): 250 years of astronomy in South Africa
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A bold hypothesis about pursuit
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reforming Naples/how to use a network: Vesuvius and savants in the two kingdoms of Sicily
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Yet another unity of science? Latin American challenges to history, philosophy and social studies of scientific knowledge
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A contagious cause: the search for cancer viruses and the growth of American biomedicine
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Genres of prediction: astrology between Sanskrit and Hindi print in colonial north India
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Frogs in space: physiological research into metric relationships and laws of nature
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific habits circa 1900
Rausing Lecture
The history of failure: a chronicle of losers or key to success?
β οΈ Twenty-Second Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The materials for trust-building in expertise
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Climate in word and image: science and the Austrian idea
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The gifts of Athena revisited: protectionism, regulation and the British Industrial Revolution, 1700β1800
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Animal sentience and human values
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
On reasonable doubt
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Emblematic alchemy: Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens (1617/18)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Only predict? Conscious experience, and the scope and limits of predictive processing
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Garbage in, garbage out? A history of representations of computers in popular media
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Eugenic sterilization in California: from demographic analysis to digital storytelling
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The hubris of youth? Oxford, Cambridge and the Arctic, c.1920β1940
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Embodied and situated moods
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Mechanisms and natural kinds
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Some sociological aspects of the detection of gravitational waves
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Patterning within the disturbance of coherence': the practical work of measuring and classifying infant disorganised attachment
Rausing Lecture
Reclaiming conversation: our new silent spring in a digital age
β οΈ Twenty-First Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Why genetics succeeds: an epistemology of scientific practice
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Two sovereign masters: pain, pleasure and utility from Bentham to Skinner
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The science of wishing: Francis Bacon and the magical optative
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reading Rivière in early modern England: tracing early modern epistemic itineraries
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cunning, killer orchids
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Was geology the first science to inject history into the natural world?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Translating embodied skill: the politics of writing about making in the early modern period
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Visual tools in seventeenth-century medical education
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Extracting the exotic: global chymical medicine in the seventeenth century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Travelling texts: notes on early modern geography and Hebraism
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Curing diseases and exchanging knowledge: sixteenth-century physicians and their female patients
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Negotiating 'applied science' in the early 1930s: new media, new discourses, new ideology
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Electricity and crystallography: the history and philosophy of Curie's Principle
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Magic bullets
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Winston's Gestapo': Churchill, the Royal Society and scientific secrecy before the Bomb
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Questions and questionnaires: knowledge, evidences and rituals of speaking in the early modern period
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How archaeological evidence bites back: putting old data to work in new ways
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
To explain the Scientific Revolution by means of comparison
β οΈ Special Joint Needham Research Institute and HPS Seminar
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
On the movements and value of research data
Rausing Lecture
Metallurgy and Chinese civilisation: an historical overview
β οΈ Twentieth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Filming Fore, shooting scientists: medical research and documentary film
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The beauty of science without the science of beauty
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Log books and the law of storms: maritime meteorology and the British Admiralty in the 19th century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Mendel the fraud? A social history of truth in genetics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
From craft to mass production? Design, manufacture and patents for artificial limbs, 1890β1925
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The shifting economies of measurement uncertainty
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Towards a history of interactivity (through interactive objects)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The enigma of environmentalism: the power of knowledge and the power of memory
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cause, causatives and theories of causation
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The rationality of science in relation to its history
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Colour me alchemical, or: form, execution and function in alchemical illustrations
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
One-seed, two-seed, three-seed? Reassessing ancient theories of generation
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Not-knowing about the aetiology of cervical cancer: a puzzle about absence of evidence
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Age of iron, age of gold: the Thirty Years War, the German reformed diaspora, and the golden age of the Dutch universities
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
New perspectives on the Great Exhibition
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Meso-science and modernism: work at the Royal Society Mond Laboratory, 1933β1972
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Pregnancy testing before DIY: rethinking the patient-doctor-laboratory relationship
Rausing Lecture
Waste, value and radioactive excess in Africa
β οΈ Nineteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
There are mechanisms β and then there are mechanisms
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Facing facts: the great Tichborne trials and the rise of modern visual evidence
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'For the sake of ornament': iconography in Tycho Brahe's Astronomiae instauratae mechanica
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How trees defy gravity: conceptual and historical remarks on the theory of the ascent of sap
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Generic speech acts and social kinds
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Harrisonomastix: dismantling the connection between experimental religion and experimental science in early modern England
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Science and empire: the view from Beijing, c. 1700
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Two views of linguistic science and its data
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Demotic mathematics and modernism's shipwrecked poetics of insurance
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Information channels and biomarkers of disease
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
The clinic of the birth: obstetric ultrasound, medical innovation and the clinico-anatomical project
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A California Yankee in King Arthur's Court (with apologies to Mark Twain), or why a molecular neurobiologist landed in HPS
β οΈ Please note change of date
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'VD is no camp': creating and communicating knowledge about same-sex venereal disease transmission in the Anglo-American world, c.1939β1984
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The love of plants: from love to sex in the history of botany
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Causal assessment and the question of stability
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Talking to our selves: reflection, scepticism and agency
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'A trip to Mars by aeroplane': genres of public astronomy and the practice of astrophysics in the fin de siècle
Rausing Lecture
Coal, steam and ships: economic historians versus historians of technology?
β οΈ Eighteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The problem of inductive risk and the ethics of communication
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Nature concocts and expels': recovery from illness in early modern England, 1580β1720
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Controversy, mistrust, even witchcraft: the failure of cancer therapy with neutrons
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Freud, Russell and Wittgenstein: 'therapeutic positivism', psychoanalysis and the origins of analytic philosophy in Cambridge
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Charles Darwin and the margins between flora and fauna in the 1870s: the case of insectivorous plants
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Herophilus of Chalcedon on the soul and the nervous system
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Kepler's Temple of Urania in the light of Hebenstreit's Idyll
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
New light on Descartes's philosophical starting-point: an unknown manuscript of the Rules for the Direction of the Mind
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Selection and maximization
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
What pluralism could be and might do
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Poet of progress: serendipity and the search for Erasmus Darwin
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Generatio: medieval debates about procreation, heredity and 'bioethics'
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The knowledge practices of Fortune magazine: leadership, numeracy and poetry, 1930β1945
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Infertility β the making of a modern experience, Germany 1870β1930
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Ingenuity in the gallery
Philosophy Events
Inaugural Lecture: Where would we be without counterfactuals?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reasoning about well-being: between psychometrics and philosophy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Geographies of knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia, c.800β200 BC
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific pluralism and the mission of history and philosophy of science
β οΈ Inaugural Lecture by Professor Hasok Chang
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The sciences of subjectivity
β οΈ Special seminar: please note this will be held on a Wednesday
Rausing Lecture
The modern rise of surgery: gloves as a technology of control
β οΈ Seventeenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Urban modernity: reconsidering Paris from 1852 to 1914
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Colonial classification
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Lucretian pessimism' or, what was Kant's critical philosophy critical of?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Textual transmission and hypertextuality in ancient Mesopotamia: the example of the divinatory series Ε‘umma Δlu and Ε‘umma izbu (second to first millennia BC)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Visualizing the geography of diseases in China, 1870sβ1920s
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Metaphors, similarities and inferences
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How to count organisms
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Impossible objects? Towards a history of modern sleep and dream research
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Medical discourse and scientific thought-styles: what changes and what remains constant
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Scientific perspectivism and its foes
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Time's arrow and Eddington's challenge
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Revisiting the Mendelian revolution
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Cambridge mathematics in the north: Peter Guthrie Tait, Philip Kelland and the local nature of mathematics in Edinburgh, 1858β65
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rethinking health, disease and modernity: a view from the farm, c.1930β70
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The mathematicians' philosophy: early Italian perspectives on the intellectual appropriation of the mechanical arts
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Singularist semirealism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The rise of modern physics in Spain: knowledge, power and memory
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
No really, it is: 'water' and 'H2O'
Rausing Lecture
Surveying the scene, engineering the machine: drawing things together in the Age of Enlightenment
β οΈ Sixteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Lacan's conceptualization of the relation between psychoanalysis, science and philosophy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Expertise, endorsement and enlightenment: the trials and tribulations of health foods in late eighteenth-century Paris
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The 'Great Ice Age' of anatomy: learning from frozen sections c. 1900
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Decision making under indeterminacy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Kuhn's education: Wittgenstein, pedagogy, and the road to structure
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Leprosy and identity in medieval Rouen
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Learning by doodling: Augustus De Morgan's logical diagrams
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How much pluralism?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A history of a tenth of a second
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How to carve nature across the joints without abandoning Kripke-Putnam semantics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'In God we trust, all others we monitor': seismology and international affairs during the Cold War
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Encountering Aristotle's Masterpiece, or how to find a racy book about reproduction
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Alchemy as 'practical exegesis' in early-modern England
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Lessons from the history and philosophy of science for research assessment systems
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Health and disease: beyond naturalism and normativism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Wir sind alle Afrikaner': a brief history and philosophy of the biological 'race' concept
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
From rustics to savants: the uses of indigenous materia medica in colonial New Spain
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
How to see movement: visual experience in early nineteenth-century physics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The CCR5 gene patent: biomedicine, intellectual property and commerce in the United States
Rausing Lecture
From scientific instruments to musical instruments: the tuning fork, metronome and siren
β οΈ Fifteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Writing post-feminist history: female sexual dysfunction and biological psychiatry, 1960 to the present
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Respiratory physiology, experiment and Everest, from ghastly kitchens to gasping lungs
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Justice and automated match officiating
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Epistemic risk and public health science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The solution to the problem of mental causation
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Dissolving a Darwinian dilemma for moral realism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Ethics, risk and public works: models of optimal risk reduction
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The credit crisis as a problem in the sociology of knowledge
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Toys in Monkeyland: the utility of anatomical models and medical expertise in late eighteenth-century Vienna
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Why expert judgment isn't evidence: a qualified defence of the EBM position
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Scavengers of nature: recycling in the history of science and medicine
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Description, design and aesthesis in the work of John Ray and contemporaries
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Divorcing sex and reproduction: the discussion of artificial insemination in Britain, 1918β1948
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Picturability and the mathematical ideals of knowledge: Leibniz versus Newton
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Dynamic (bio)ontologies for good epistemology
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Learning things: the objects of familiar science in nineteenth-century Britain
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Social knowing
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A philosopher of science looks at medicine: do we 'need some large, simple randomized trials'?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Dr Lauder Lindsay's lemmings: mad beasts and misanthropy in a Victorian asylum
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rulers, clocks and common sense: metrology as a key to Wittgenstein's On Certainty
β οΈ Valedictory Lecture
Rausing Lecture
Local crafts and universal science: lived experience and the written word in the early modern world
β οΈ Fourteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The two cultures controversy: science, literature and cultural politics in postwar Britain
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Experimental religion and experimental natural philosophy in early modern England
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Insanity, divine madness and prophecy in Jung's self-experimentation
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Causation, models of disease and epidemiology
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Fusing modern art and science: Marian Dale Scott, Hans Selye, and the visualisation of life
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
On recent work on faultless disagreement
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Consensus and disagreement in science
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Scientia sexualis versus ars erotica: Foucault, van Gulik, Needham, Orientalism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'A falling star' β the sovereign self in Otto Weininger
β οΈ Jointly hosted with CRASSH, and held in their seminar room at 17 Mill Lane
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Narratives in Greek mathematics?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
History and philosophy of regulatory science: the case of pharmaceuticals
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Between law and astronomy: Kepler, Galileo and the uses of witnessing
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Thinking 'through numbers'
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
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Imagined experiments: molecular modelling and make-believe
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Phlogiston revisited: an argument for scientific pluralism
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Where does a claim for the necessity of historical knowledge lead in the human sciences?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Early-modern investigations on the nature of tarantism from Tommaso Campanella to Antonio Vallisneri
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The shape of the conceptual
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
A Roman engineerβs tales
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The new riddle of causation
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Slavery in the cabinet of curiosities: Hans Sloane's Atlantic world
Rausing Lecture
Shaping postwar Europe: science, technology and American soft power
β οΈ Thirteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The 'mechanical hypothesis' in Ancient Greek natural philosophy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
What is an organism?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rolling up the history of a science: Greek musical theorists on their predecessors
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
The politics and physiology of laughter in eighteenth-century France: the Saint-Aubinsβ Livre des Culs
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Walking as a problem of the nineteenth century
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Contracting the philosopherβs stone: fraud, risk and profit in early modern alchemy
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Rival theories of the aerofoil: 1909-1926
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Thatcher, scientist
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Natural purposes, Kantian analogies and environmental ethics
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Biographical medicine: London consultants explain disease
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Proving a negative? How important was sexual abstinence during the fertility decline?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Spinoza on law and sovereignty
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'A year of resurrection, a year of grotesque horror': heart transplants and the media in 1968
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Are there Lewis conventions?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Panacea's daughters: gentlewomen healers and experiential knowledge in early modern Germany
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Practical reasoning and inference
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
'Sybil' in particulars and generals: inductive logic and Victorian narrative
Rausing Lecture
Music and technology studies: from the Moog synthesizer to ACIDplanet.com
β οΈ The Twelfth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Williamson on knowledge
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Kepler as chronologer
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Chymistry and colours: alchemy, matter theory and optics in the early work of Isaac Newton
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Anatomical politics and urban transformation in Vienna, 1848β1945
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Reference failure: why worry?
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
From manifest image to Musgrave's problem: some comments on van Fraassen's epistemology
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Francis Bacon and the art-nature distinction
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Doctors, motherhood and insanity of childbirth in Victorian Britain
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Agreement and the new relativism (work in progress)
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Making truth or masking lies: the triumph of the Conards
Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science
Perceptual knowledge and discrimination (work in progress)
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