List 1


2006-11-02 16:30: Perceptual knowledge and discrimination (work in progress) (Duncan Pritchard (University of Stirling))

2006-11-09 16:30: Making truth or masking lies: the triumph of the Conards (Michael Wintroub (University of California, Berkeley))

2006-11-16 16:30: Agreement and the new relativism (work in progress) (John Hawthorne (University of Oxford))

2006-11-23 16:30: Doctors, motherhood and insanity of childbirth in Victorian Britain (Hilary Marland (University of Warwick))

2007-01-25 16:30: Francis Bacon and the art-nature distinction (Sophie Weeks (Homerton College and Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-02-08 16:30: From manifest image to Musgrave's problem: some comments on van Fraassen's epistemology (Paul Dicken (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-02-22 16:30: Reference failure: why worry? (Christina McLeish (St Catharine's College and Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-03-08 16:30: Anatomical politics and urban transformation in Vienna, 1848–1945 (Tatjana Buklijas (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2007-04-26 16:30: Chymistry and colours: alchemy, matter theory and optics in the early work of Isaac Newton (William Newman (Indiana University))

2007-05-03 16:30: Kepler as chronologer (Anthony Grafton (Princeton University))

2007-05-10 16:30: Williamson on knowledge (Quassim Cassam (Faculty of Philosophy))

2007-05-24 16:30: Music and technology studies: from the Moog synthesizer to ACIDplanet.com (Trevor Pinch (Cornell University))

2007-10-18 16:30: 'Sybil' in particulars and generals: inductive logic and Victorian narrative (Alice Jenkins (University of Glasgow and CRASSH))

2007-10-25 16:30: Practical reasoning and inference (Jonathan Dancy (University of Reading and University of Texas at Austin))

2007-11-01 16:30: Panacea's daughters: gentlewomen healers and experiential knowledge in early modern Germany (Alisha Rankin (Trinity College, Cambridge))

2007-11-08 16:30: Are there Lewis conventions? (Francesco Guala (University of Exeter))

2007-11-15 16:30: 'A year of resurrection, a year of grotesque horror': heart transplants and the media in 1968 (Ayesha Nathoo (Clare Hall, Cambridge))

2007-11-22 16:30: Spinoza on law and sovereignty (Susan James (Birkbeck, University of London))

2007-11-29 16:30: Proving a negative? How important was sexual abstinence during the fertility decline? (Simon Szreter (St John's College, Cambridge))

2008-01-17 16:30: Biographical medicine: London consultants explain disease (Harry M. Marks (Johns Hopkins University))

2008-01-24 16:30: Natural purposes, Kantian analogies and environmental ethics (Angela Breitenbach (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge))

2008-01-31 16:30: Thatcher, scientist (Jon Agar (University College London))

2008-02-07 16:30: Rival theories of the aerofoil: 1909-1926 (David Bloor (University of Edinburgh))

2008-02-14 16:30: Contracting the philosopher’s stone: fraud, risk and profit in early modern alchemy (Tara Nummedal (Brown University))

2008-02-21 16:30: Walking as a problem of the nineteenth century (Andreas Mayer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin))

2008-03-06 16:30: 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))

2008-05-01 16:30: Rolling up the history of a science: Greek musical theorists on their predecessors (Andrew Barker (University of Birmingham))

2008-05-08 16:30: What is an organism? (John Dupré (University of Exeter))

2008-05-15 16:30: The 'mechanical hypothesis' in Ancient Greek natural philosophy (Sylvia Berryman (University of British Columbia))

2008-05-22 16:30: Shaping postwar Europe: science, technology and American soft power (John Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology))

2008-05-29 16:30: Slavery in the cabinet of curiosities: Hans Sloane's Atlantic world (James Delbourgo (McGill University and Visiting Fellow, CRASSH))

2008-06-05 16:30: The new riddle of causation (Alex Broadbent (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-06-12 16:30: A Roman engineer’s tales (Serafina Cuomo (Birkbeck, University of London))

2008-10-23 16:30: The shape of the conceptual (Charles Travis (King's College London))

2008-10-30 16:30: Early-modern investigations on the nature of tarantism from Tommaso Campanella to Antonio Vallisneri (Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute))

2008-11-13 16:30: Where does a claim for the necessity of historical knowledge lead in the human sciences? (Roger Smith (Lancaster University / Durham University))

2008-11-20 16:30: Phlogiston revisited: an argument for scientific pluralism (Hasok Chang (University College London))

2008-11-27 16:30: Imagined experiments: molecular modelling and make-believe (Adam Toon (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2008-12-04 16:30: 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))

2009-01-15 16:30: Thinking 'through numbers' (Hélène Mialet (Harvard University))

2009-01-22 16:30: Between law and astronomy: Kepler, Galileo and the uses of witnessing (Mario Biagioli (Harvard University))

2009-01-29 16:30: History and philosophy of regulatory science: the case of pharmaceuticals (John Abraham (University of Sussex))

2009-02-05 16:30: Narratives in Greek mathematics? (Markus Asper (New York University))

2009-02-12 17:00: 'A falling star' – the sovereign self in Otto Weininger (Louis Sass (Rutgers University, New Jersey))

2009-02-19 16:30: Scientia sexualis versus ars erotica: Foucault, van Gulik, Needham, Orientalism (Leon Antonio Rocha (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-02-26 16:30: Consensus and disagreement in science (Stephan Hartmann (Tilburg University))

2009-03-05 16:30: On recent work on faultless disagreement (Max Kolbel (University of Barcelona))

2009-04-23 16:30: Fusing modern art and science: Marian Dale Scott, Hans Selye, and the visualisation of life (Mark Jackson (University of Exeter))

2009-04-30 16:30: Causation, models of disease and epidemiology (Alex Broadbent (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-05-07 16:30: Insanity, divine madness and prophecy in Jung's self-experimentation (Sonu Shamdasani (University College London))

2009-05-14 16:30: Experimental religion and experimental natural philosophy in early modern England (Peter Harrison (University of Oxford))

2009-05-21 16:30: The two cultures controversy: science, literature and cultural politics in postwar Britain (Guy Ortolano (University of Virginia))

2009-05-28 16:30: Local crafts and universal science: lived experience and the written word in the early modern world (Pamela H. Smith (Columbia University))

2009-06-04 16:30: Rulers, clocks and common sense: metrology as a key to Wittgenstein's On Certainty (Martin Kusch (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-10-22 16:30: Dr Lauder Lindsay's lemmings: mad beasts and misanthropy in a Victorian asylum (Richard Barnett (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2009-10-29 16:30: A philosopher of science looks at medicine: do we 'need some large, simple randomized trials'? (John Worrall (London School of Economics))

2009-11-05 16:30: Social knowing (Alexander Bird (University of Bristol))

2009-11-12 16:30: Learning things: the objects of familiar science in nineteenth-century Britain (Melanie Keene (Homerton College, Cambridge))

2009-11-19 16:30: Dynamic (bio)ontologies for good epistemology (Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter))

2009-11-26 16:30: Picturability and the mathematical ideals of knowledge: Leibniz versus Newton (Stephen Gaukroger (University of Sydney and University of Aberdeen))

2009-12-03 16:30: Divorcing sex and reproduction: the discussion of artificial insemination in Britain, 1918–1948 (Angus McLaren (University of Victoria))

2010-01-14 16:30: Description, design and aesthesis in the work of John Ray and contemporaries (Alexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-01-28 16:30: Scavengers of nature: recycling in the history of science and medicine (Simon Werrett (University of Washington, Seattle))

2010-02-04 16:30: Why expert judgment isn't evidence: a qualified defence of the EBM position (Jeremy Howick (UCL))

2010-02-11 16:30: Toys in Monkeyland: the utility of anatomical models and medical expertise in late eighteenth-century Vienna (Anna Maerker (Oxford Brookes University))

2010-02-18 16:30: The credit crisis as a problem in the sociology of knowledge (Donald Mackenzie (University of Edinburgh))

2010-02-25 16:30: Ethics, risk and public works: models of optimal risk reduction (Luc Bovens (LSE))

2010-03-04 16:30: Dissolving a Darwinian dilemma for moral realism (Kevin Brosnan (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-03-11 16:30: The solution to the problem of mental causation (Tim Crane (Faculty of Philosophy))

2010-04-22 16:30: Epistemic risk and public health science (Mark Parascandola (National Institutes of Health, USA))

2010-04-29 16:30: Justice and automated match officiating (Harry Collins (Cardiff University))

2010-05-06 16:30: Respiratory physiology, experiment and Everest, from ghastly kitchens to gasping lungs (Vanessa Heggie (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2010-05-13 16:30: Writing post-feminist history: female sexual dysfunction and biological psychiatry, 1960 to the present (Katherine Angel (University of Warwick))

2010-05-27 16:30: From scientific instruments to musical instruments: the tuning fork, metronome and siren (Myles W. Jackson (Polytechnic Institute of New York University and the Gallatin School of NYU))

2010-05-28 16:30: 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))

2010-10-21 16:30: How to see movement: visual experience in early nineteenth-century physics (Chitra Ramalingam (Science Museum and CRASSH, Cambridge))

2010-10-28 16:30: From rustics to savants: the uses of indigenous materia medica in colonial New Spain (Miruna Achim (Universidad Autómona Metropolitana, Mexico City))

2010-11-04 16:30: '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))

2010-11-11 16:30: Health and disease: beyond naturalism and normativism (Ellie Kingma (King's College London))

2010-11-18 16:30: Lessons from the history and philosophy of science for research assessment systems (Donald Gillies (UCL))

2010-11-25 16:30: Alchemy as 'practical exegesis' in early-modern England (Jennifer Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-01-20 16:30: Encountering Aristotle's Masterpiece, or how to find a racy book about reproduction (Mary Fissell (Johns Hopkins University))

2011-01-27 16:30: 'In God we trust, all others we monitor': seismology and international affairs during the Cold War (Simone Turchetti (University of Manchester))

2011-02-03 16:30: How to carve nature across the joints without abandoning Kripke-Putnam semantics (Helen Beebee (University of Birmingham))

2011-02-10 16:30: A history of a tenth of a second (Jimena Canales (Harvard University))

2011-02-17 16:30: How much pluralism? (James Ladyman (University of Bristol))

2011-02-24 16:30: Learning by doodling: Augustus De Morgan's logical diagrams (Joan Richards (Brown University))

2011-03-03 16:30: Leprosy and identity in medieval Rouen (Elma Brenner (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-03-10 16:30: Kuhn's education: Wittgenstein, pedagogy, and the road to structure (Joel Isaac (Queen Mary, University of London/CRASSH, Cambridge))

2011-04-28 16:30: Decision making under indeterminacy (Robbie Williams (University of Leeds))

2011-05-05 16:30: The 'Great Ice Age' of anatomy: learning from frozen sections c. 1900 (Salim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-05-12 16:30: Expertise, endorsement and enlightenment: the trials and tribulations of health foods in late eighteenth-century Paris (Emma Spary (Faculty of History))

2011-05-19 16:30: Lacan's conceptualization of the relation between psychoanalysis, science and philosophy (Alireza Taheri (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2011-05-26 16:30: Surveying the scene, engineering the machine: drawing things together in the Age of Enlightenment (Celina Fox)

2011-10-20 16:30: No really, it is: 'water' and 'H2O' (Robin Findlay Hendry (Durham University))

2011-10-27 16:30: The rise of modern physics in Spain: knowledge, power and memory (Xavier Roqué (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona))

2011-11-03 16:30: Singularist semirealism (Bence Nanay (University of Antwerp and Peterhouse, Cambridge))

2011-11-10 16:30: The mathematicians' philosophy: early Italian perspectives on the intellectual appropriation of the mechanical arts (Cesare S. Maffioli (International Academy of the History of Science))

2011-11-17 16:30: Rethinking health, disease and modernity: a view from the farm, c.1930–70 (Abigail Woods (Imperial College London))

2011-11-24 16:30: 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))

2012-01-19 16:30: Revisiting the Mendelian revolution (Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Exeter))

2012-01-26 16:30: Time's arrow and Eddington's challenge (Huw Price (Faculty of Philosophy))

2012-02-02 16:30: Scientific perspectivism and its foes (Michela Massimi (University College London))

2012-02-09 16:30: Medical discourse and scientific thought-styles: what changes and what remains constant (Irma Taavitsainen (University of Helsinki))

2012-02-16 16:30: Impossible objects? Towards a history of modern sleep and dream research (Andreas Mayer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science))

2012-02-23 16:30: How to count organisms (Ellen Clarke (All Souls College, Oxford))

2012-03-01 16:30: Metaphors, similarities and inferences (Mauricio Suárez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid and LSE))

2012-03-08 16:30: Visualizing the geography of diseases in China, 1870s–1920s (Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University))

2012-04-26 16:30: 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))

2012-05-03 16:30: 'Lucretian pessimism' or, what was Kant's critical philosophy critical of? (Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen))

2012-05-10 16:30: Colonial classification (Khadija Carroll La (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-05-17 16:30: Urban modernity: reconsidering Paris from 1852 to 1914 (Miriam R. Levin (Case Western Reserve University))

2012-05-24 16:30: The modern rise of surgery: gloves as a technology of control (Thomas Schlich (McGill University))

2012-05-30 16:30: The sciences of subjectivity (Steven Shapin (Harvard University))

2012-10-11 16:45: Scientific pluralism and the mission of history and philosophy of science (Hasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-10-18 16:30: Geographies of knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia, c.800–200 BC (Eleanor Robson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-10-25 16:30: Reasoning about well-being: between psychometrics and philosophy (Anna Alexandrova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-11-01 17:30: Inaugural Lecture: Where would we be without counterfactuals? (Huw Price (Faculty of Philosophy))

2012-11-08 16:30: Ingenuity in the gallery (Alex Marr (Department of History of Art))

2012-11-15 16:30: Infertility – the making of a modern experience, Germany 1870–1930 (Christina Benninghaus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2012-11-22 16:30: The knowledge practices of Fortune magazine: leadership, numeracy and poetry, 1930–1945 (Tiago Mata (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-01-17 16:30: Generatio: medieval debates about procreation, heredity and 'bioethics' (Maaike van der Lugt (Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7 / Institut Universitaire de France))

2013-01-24 16:30:  Poet of progress: serendipity and the search for Erasmus Darwin (Patricia Fara (Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Clare College, Cambridge))

2013-01-31 16:30: What pluralism could be and might do (Tim Button (Faculty of Philosophy))

2013-02-07 16:30:  Selection and maximization (Jonathan Birch (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-02-14 16:30: 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))

2013-02-21 16:30: Kepler's Temple of Urania in the light of Hebenstreit's Idyll (Nick Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-02-28 16:30: Herophilus of Chalcedon on the soul and the nervous system (David Leith (Faculty of Classics))

2013-03-07 16:30: 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))

2013-04-25 16:30: Freud, Russell and Wittgenstein: 'therapeutic positivism', psychoanalysis and the origins of analytic philosophy in Cambridge (John Forrester (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-05-02 16:30: Controversy, mistrust, even witchcraft: the failure of cancer therapy with neutrons (Gerald Kutcher (Binghamton University))

2013-05-09 16:30: 'Nature concocts and expels': recovery from illness in early modern England, 1580–1720 (Hannah Newton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-05-16 16:30: The problem of inductive risk and the ethics of communication (Stephen John (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2013-05-23 16:30: Coal, steam and ships: economic historians versus historians of technology? (Crosbie Smith (University of Kent))

2013-10-24 16:30: '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))

2013-11-07 16:30: Talking to our selves: reflection, scepticism and agency (John Doris (Washington University in St Louis))

2013-11-14 16:30: Causal assessment and the question of stability (Feredica Russo (Vrije Universiteit Brussel))

2013-11-21 16:30: The love of plants: from love to sex in the history of botany (Laurence Totelin (Cardiff University))

2013-11-28 16:30: '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))

2013-12-05 16:30: A California Yankee in King Arthur's Court (with apologies to Mark Twain), or why a molecular neurobiologist landed in HPS (David Teplow (UCLA))

2014-01-16 16:30: The clinic of the birth: obstetric ultrasound, medical innovation and the clinico-anatomical project (Malcolm Nicolson (University of Glasgow))

2014-01-23 16:30: Information channels and biomarkers of disease (Phyllis Illari (UCL))

2014-01-30 16:30: Demotic mathematics and modernism's shipwrecked poetics of insurance (Alice Bamford (Faculty of English))

2014-02-13 16:30: Two views of linguistic science and its data (Shane Glackin (University of Exeter))

2014-02-20 16:30: Science and empire: the view from Beijing, c. 1700 (Catherine Jami (CNRS-SPHERE, Paris))

2014-02-27 16:30: Harrisonomastix: dismantling the connection between experimental religion and experimental science in early modern England (Stephen Pumfrey (Lancaster University))

2014-03-06 16:30: Generic speech acts and social kinds (Rae Langton (Faculty of Philosophy))

2014-04-24 16:30: How trees defy gravity: conceptual and historical remarks on the theory of the ascent of sap (Harvey Brown (University of Oxford))

2014-05-01 16:30: 'For the sake of ornament': iconography in Tycho Brahe's Astronomiae instauratae mechanica (Emma Perkins (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-05-08 16:30: Facing facts: the great Tichborne trials and the rise of modern visual evidence (Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan University))

2014-05-15 16:30: There are mechanisms – and then there are mechanisms (Nancy Cartwright (Durham University and UCSD))

2014-05-19 16:30: Waste, value and radioactive excess in Africa (Gabrielle Hecht (University of Michigan))

2014-10-16 16:30: Pregnancy testing before DIY: rethinking the patient-doctor-laboratory relationship (Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-10-23 16:30: Meso-science and modernism: work at the Royal Society Mond Laboratory, 1933–1972 (Boris Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2014-10-30 16:30: New perspectives on the Great Exhibition (Geoffrey Cantor (University College London))

2014-11-20 16:30: 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))

2014-11-27 16:30: Not-knowing about the aetiology of cervical cancer: a puzzle about absence of evidence (Brendan Clarke (University College London))

2015-01-15 16:30: One-seed, two-seed, three-seed? Reassessing ancient theories of generation (Rebecca Flemming (Faculty of Classics))

2015-01-22 16:30: Colour me alchemical, or: form, execution and function in alchemical illustrations (Anke Timmermann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2015-01-29 15:30: The rationality of science in relation to its history (Sherrilyn Roush (King's College London))

2015-02-05 15:30: Cause, causatives and theories of causation (Julian Reiss (Durham University))

2015-02-12 15:30: The enigma of environmentalism: the power of knowledge and the power of memory (Frank Uekotter (University of Birmingham))

2015-02-19 15:30: Towards a history of interactivity (through interactive objects) (Arne Schirrmacher (Humboldt University, Berlin))

2015-02-26 15:30: The shifting economies of measurement uncertainty (Eran Tal (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2015-03-05 15:30: From craft to mass production? Design, manufacture and patents for artificial limbs, 1890–1925 (Julie Anderson (University of Kent))

2015-04-23 15:30: Mendel the fraud? A social history of truth in genetics (Greg Radick (University of Leeds))

2015-04-30 15:30: Log books and the law of storms: maritime meteorology and the British Admiralty in the 19th century (Simon Naylor (University of Glasgow))

2015-05-07 15:30: The beauty of science without the science of beauty (Angela Breitenbach (Faculty of Philosophy))

2015-05-14 15:30: Filming Fore, shooting scientists: medical research and documentary film (Warwick Anderson (University of Sydney))

2015-05-21 16:30: Metallurgy and Chinese civilisation: an historical overview (Jianjun Mei (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge))

2015-10-15 16:30: On the movements and value of research data (Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter))

2015-10-16 15:30: To explain the Scientific Revolution by means of comparison (Floris Cohen (Utrecht University))

2015-10-22 16:30: How archaeological evidence bites back: putting old data to work in new ways (Alison Wylie (University of Washington))

2015-10-29 16:30: Questions and questionnaires: knowledge, evidences and rituals of speaking in the early modern period (Samir Boumediene (Faculty of History))

2015-11-05 16:30: 'Winston's Gestapo': Churchill, the Royal Society and scientific secrecy before the Bomb (Jeff Hughes (University of Manchester))

2015-11-12 16:30: Magic bullets (Jacob Stegenga (University of Victoria))

2015-11-19 16:30: Electricity and crystallography: the history and philosophy of Curie's Principle (Bryan Roberts (LSE))

2015-11-26 16:30: Negotiating 'applied science' in the early 1930s: new media, new discourses, new ideology (Robert Bud (Science Museum, London))

2016-01-14 16:30: Curing diseases and exchanging knowledge: sixteenth-century physicians and their female patients (Michael Stolberg (University of Würzburg))

2016-01-21 15:30: Travelling texts: notes on early modern geography and Hebraism (Zur Shalev (University of Haifa))

2016-01-28 15:30: Extracting the exotic: global chymical medicine in the seventeenth century (Hjalmar Fors (Uppsala University))

2016-02-04 15:30: Visual tools in seventeenth-century medical education (Sietske Fransen (CRASSH))

2016-02-11 15:30: Translating embodied skill: the politics of writing about making in the early modern period (Paola Bertucci (Yale University))

2016-02-18 15:30: Was geology the first science to inject history into the natural world? (Martin Rudwick (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2016-02-25 15:30: Cunning, killer orchids (Jim Endersby (University of Sussex))

2016-03-03 15:30: Reading Rivière in early modern England: tracing early modern epistemic itineraries (Elaine Leong (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science))

2016-04-28 15:30: The science of wishing: Francis Bacon and the magical optative (Vera Keller (University of Oregon))

2016-05-05 15:30: Two sovereign masters: pain, pleasure and utility from Bentham to Skinner (Cathy Gere (University of California, San Diego))

2016-05-12 15:30: Why genetics succeeds: an epistemology of scientific practice (C. Kenneth Waters (University of Calgary))

2016-05-19 16:30: Reclaiming conversation: our new silent spring in a digital age (Sherry Turkle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology))

2016-10-13 15:30: '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))

2016-10-20 15:30: Some sociological aspects of the detection of gravitational waves (Harry Collins (Cardiff University))

2016-10-27 15:30: Mechanisms and natural kinds (Emma Tobin (UCL))

2016-11-10 15:30: Embodied and situated moods (Giovanna Colombetti (University of Exeter))

2016-11-17 15:30: The hubris of youth? Oxford, Cambridge and the Arctic, c.1920–1940 (Richard Powell (University of Oxford))

2016-11-24 15:30: Eugenic sterilization in California: from demographic analysis to digital storytelling (Alexandra Minna Stern (University of Michigan))

2017-01-26 15:30: Garbage in, garbage out? A history of representations of computers in popular media (James Sumner (University of Manchester))

2017-02-02 15:30: Only predict? Conscious experience, and the scope and limits of predictive processing (Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh))

2017-02-09 15:30: Emblematic alchemy: Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens (1617/18) (Tara Nummedal (Brown University))

2017-02-16 15:30: On reasonable doubt (Marion Vorms (Birkbeck, University of London))

2017-02-23 15:30: Animal sentience and human values (Jonathan Birch (LSE))

2017-03-09 15:30: The gifts of Athena revisited: protectionism, regulation and the British Industrial Revolution, 1700–1800 (William Ashworth (University of Liverpool))

2017-03-16 15:30: Climate in word and image: science and the Austrian idea (Deborah Coen (Columbia University))

2017-05-04 15:30: The materials for trust-building in expertise (Heather Douglas (University of Waterloo))

2017-05-11 16:30: The history of failure: a chronicle of losers or key to success? (Lissa Roberts (University of Twente))

2017-05-18 15:30: Scientific habits circa 1900 (Henry Cowles (Yale University))

2017-05-25 15:30: Frogs in space: physiological research into metric relationships and laws of nature (Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech))

2017-10-19 15:30: Genres of prediction: astrology between Sanskrit and Hindi print in colonial north India (Charu Singh (University of Cambridge))

2017-10-26 15:30: A contagious cause: the search for cancer viruses and the growth of American biomedicine (Robin Scheffler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology))

2017-11-02 15:30: Yet another unity of science? Latin American challenges to history, philosophy and social studies of scientific knowledge (Sandra Harding (UCLA))

2017-11-09 15:30: Reforming Naples/how to use a network: Vesuvius and savants in the two kingdoms of Sicily (John Brewer (California Institute of Technology))

2017-11-16 15:30: A bold hypothesis about pursuit (Adrian Currie (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk))

2017-11-23 15:30: Before the big bang of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA): 250 years of astronomy in South Africa (Saul Dubow (Faculty of History))

2018-01-18 15:30: Making sense of art and science (Charlotte Sleigh (University of Kent))

2018-01-25 15:30: Modelling at the border of experimental and theoretical practice in physics (Casey McCoy (University of Edinburgh))

2018-02-01 15:30: Sugar, science and the history of capitalism (David Singerman (University of Virginia))

2018-02-08 15:30: Machine learning, social learning and self-driving cars (Jack Stilgoe (UCL))

2018-02-15 15:30: Barnum, Bache and Poe: the forging of science in the Antebellum US (John Tresch (University of Pennsylvania))

2018-02-21 13:00: Disaggregating goods (Mariam Thalos (University of Utah))

2018-03-01 15:30: Poison trials, panaceas and proof: debates about testing and testimony in early modern European medicine (Alisha Rankin (Tufts University))

2018-03-08 15:30: Beyond truth-as-correspondence: realism for realistic people (Hasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2018-04-26 15:30: Statistical biases in peer review (Remco Heesen (Faculty of Philosophy))

2018-05-03 15:30: Explaining the recent 'hiatus' in global warming: models, measurement and media (Wendy S. Parker (Durham University))

2018-05-10 15:30: Creatures of Cain: the hunt for human nature in Cold War America (Erika Milam (Princeton University))

2018-05-16 13:00: Giant Power: energy technology and the long history of post-truth (Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University))

2018-05-17 16:30: Steamroll all the brutes: coal, steam and British Imperialism in mid-nineteenth century Levant and West Africa (Andreas Malm (Lund University))

2018-10-25 15:30: Principia and the air-pump: the social and political roots of Newton's science (Robert Iliffe (University of Oxford))

2018-11-01 15:30: 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))

2018-11-08 15:30: Probabilistic actual causation (Luke Fenton-Glynn (University College London))

2018-11-15 15:30: Being human, being Homo sapiens (Denis Walsh (University of Toronto))

2018-11-22 15:30: Creating citizen history of science: science, fiction and the future of the 20th century (Amanda Rees (University of York))

2019-01-17 16:00: Heaven and Earth are within one's grasp: the healer's body-as-technology in classical Chinese medicine (Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University))

2019-01-24 15:30: Newton's methodology meets Humean supervenience about laws of nature (Lina Jansson (University of Nottingham))

2019-01-31 15:30: Bathing, bloodletting and bed-rest in the high medieval monastery (Ruth J. Salter (University of Reading))

2019-02-07 15:30: Patient reported outcome measures are different (Leah McClimans (University of South Carolina))

2019-02-14 15:30: Past unlimited: the canal of Zabita Khan (Pratik Chakrabarti (University of Manchester))

2019-02-21 15:30: Beyond correspondence: realism for realistic people (Hasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2019-02-28 15:30: History of S&T need an oil bath: oil, scarcity and technoscience in the 1970s (Cyrus Mody (Maastricht University))

2019-03-07 15:30: V-Dem: measuring democracy (Sharon Crasnow (Norco College/Durham University))

2019-03-14 15:30: The view from here, there and nowhere? Situating the observer in the planetarium and in the solar system (Charlotte Bigg (CNRS Paris))

2019-04-25 15:30: Rethinking industrial patronage of academic research in the early Cold War (Joseph Martin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2019-05-02 15:30: The instrument of science (Darrell Rowbottom (Lingnan University))

2019-05-09 15:30: Du Bois' plan for scientific inquiry (Liam Kofi Bright (London School of Economics))

2019-05-16 16:30: Whose history of technology? Path dependencies, contested modernities, and pockets of persistence (Ruth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology))

2019-06-06 15:30: From Kepler's optics to Spinoza's politics: Descartes' turn to the passions (Ofer Gal (University of Sydney))

2019-10-31 15:30: CRISPR gene-drive and the war against malaria – the evolutionary ABCs (Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin-Madison))

2019-11-07 15:30: The adoption of Hindu-Arabic numerals in England and Italy, a comparative perspective (13th–16th centuries) (Raffaele Danna (Faculty of History))

2019-11-14 15:30: Science and the approximation account of knowledge (Wesley Buckwalter (University of Manchester))

2019-11-21 15:30: Cooperative division of cognitive labour: the social epistemology of photosynthesis research (Kärin Nickelsen (LMU Munich))

2019-11-28 15:30: Directed theories of time and the conventionality of simultaneity (Bryan Roberts (LSE))

2020-01-16 15:30: Nonhuman episodic memory, scepticism and psychological kinds (Ali Boyle (Trinity Hall, Cambridge))

2020-01-23 15:30: How atoms became real (Milena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2020-01-30 15:30: Pick your poison: insecticides and locust control in colonial Kenya (Sabine Clarke (University of York))

2020-02-06 15:30: On pluralism in psychiatry (Miriam Solomon (Temple University))

2020-02-13 16:00: The maternal imprint: gender, heredity and the biosocial body (Sarah Richardson (Harvard University))

2020-02-27 15:30: 'I am rhapsodic man': Alexander von Humboldt in search of himself (Andreas Daum (University at Buffalo))

2020-05-07 16:00: Virtual Conversation: Pandemic and Policy (See description)

2020-05-14 15:30: Virtual Conversation: Histories of Medicine for the 21st Century (See description)

2020-05-21 15:30: Virtual Conversation: Legacies of Early Modern Colonial Science (See description)

2020-05-28 15:30: Virtual Conversation: Calculating Trust (See description)

2020-06-04 15:30: Virtual Conversation: Central European Science in Perspective (See description)

2020-06-11 15:30: Virtual Conversation: Citizen Science (See description)

2020-10-22 15:30: Linking the global and the local: the double burden of child malnutrition in Jamaica, c. 1960–2020 (Henrice Altink (University of York))

2020-10-29 15:30: The history of the electric charge c. 1897–1906 through the lenses of perspectival realism (Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh))

2020-11-05 15:30: A material history of 16th-century astronomy? (Jim Bennett (University of Oxford, emeritus))

2020-11-12 15:30: Africa, race and the most expensive vaccine yet: stakes of hepatitis B immunisation research in Senegal and the Gambia (Noémi Tousignant (University College London))

2020-11-19 15:30: Do we live in a post-truth era? (Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij (Birkbeck, University of London))

2020-11-26 15:30: How to study animal minds (See description)

2021-01-21 15:30: How does process tracing work? (Christopher Clarke (CRASSH Cambridge and Erasmus University, Rotterdam))

2021-01-28 15:30: Truth AND consequences (Polly Mitchell (King's College London))

2021-02-04 15:30: Race, science and literary studies in the 21st century (Josie Gill (University of Bristol))

2021-02-11 16:00: Doctors v. midwives: Caribbean medical encounters in the age of pronatal abolition (Sasha Turner (Johns Hopkins University))

2021-02-18 15:30: Guerrilla warfare as sampling: Amílcar Cabral, African independence and the writing of transnational history of science (Tiago Saraiva (Drexel University))

2021-02-25 15:30: Drawing processes (Chiara Ambrosio (University College London))

2021-03-04 15:30: Messaging Mars and the dead: technology and fiction in Britain, 1900–1939 (Richard Noakes (University of Exeter))

2021-03-11 15:30: Data agnosticism in medical emergencies: a tale from the past (David Teira (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia))

2021-04-29 15:30: World models and intuition in the 1970s (Sarah Dry (University of Cambridge))

2021-05-06 15:30: Futures (Jenny Andersson (Upsala University) and Sandra Kemp (Lancaster University))

2021-05-13 15:30: Islamic science, cultural difference and colonization (Harun Küçük (University of Pennsylvania))

2021-05-20 15:30: Humility in population health science: lessons for fostering an elder-supportive 'culture of health' after the pandemic (Sean Valles (Michigan State University))

2021-10-21 16:30: The kinetic Caribbean: technologies of mobility in a pre-modern world (María M. Portuondo (Johns Hopkins University))

2021-10-28 15:30: Cultural groups, essentialism, and ontic risk (Andrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2021-11-04 15:30: Tracing scientific instrument makers: the importance of researching the actual objects they made or sold (Gloria Clifton (Emeritus Curator, National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, Greenwich))

2021-11-11 15:30: Charlatans and the making of research: the undisciplining and redisciplining of experimental philosophy in seventeenth-century Europe (Vera Keller (University of Oregon))

2021-11-18 15:30: Physical computations are idealisations (Mark Sprevak (University of Edinburgh))

2021-11-25 15:30: Causal explanation and revealed preferences (Kate Vredenburgh (London School of Economics))

2022-01-20 16:00: Seeds, a dying river, and an experiment station: re-examining 1960s global solutions to hunger from Sonora, Mexico (Gabriela Soto Laveaga (Harvard University))

2022-01-27 15:30: Exhibiting imperial entanglements in science museums (Eleanor S. Armstrong (Stockholm University / University of Delaware))

2022-02-03 15:30: On the value of the creative imagination in the arts and in the sciences (Alexander Bird (Faculty of Philosophy))

2022-02-10 15:30: 'Navigators...will worship at our shrine': making map history at the National Maritime Museum, 1928–1955 (Megan Barford (Royal Museums Greenwich))

2022-02-17 15:30: The news from Glozel: media, scandal and the making of French archaeology, ca. 1927 (Daniel J. Sherman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill))

2022-02-24 15:30: Epistemic bunkers (Katherine Furman (University of Liverpool))

2022-03-03 15:30: When models migrate: the epistemic pitfalls of model transfer (Axel Gelfert (Technische Universität Berlin))

2022-03-10 15:30: Learning (to learn) from others (Richard Moore (University of Warwick))

2022-04-28 15:30: Imitation as innovation: recasting the history of technology in modern Korea (Hyungsub Choi (Seoul National University of Science and Technology; Needham Research Institute))

2022-05-05 15:30: Brave new future: a realistic ELSI of ectogestation (Elselijn Kingma-Vermeer (King's College London))

2022-05-12 16:30: Environing technologies – shaping, seeing, sense-making (Sverker Sörlin (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm))

2022-05-19 15:30: Sham matings and other shenanigans: on animal homosexuality (Pieter R. Adriaens (KU Leuven, Belgium))

2022-10-20 15:30: Coloniality, global health, and reparations (Eugene Richardson (Harvard University))

2022-10-27 15:30: The philosophical significance of the Representational Theory of Measurement: RTM as semantic foundations (Jo Wolff (University of Edinburgh))

2022-11-03 15:30: Population biology and the implicit scientific backing of the 'Human Biodiversity' movement (Michael Diamond-Hunter (London School of Economics))

2022-11-10 15:30: A view of technological change through the magic lantern in Japan (Lewis Bremner (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2022-11-17 15:30: Knowledge in science and beyond: historiographical challenges and the case of colour history (Friedrich Steinle (Technische Universitaet Berlin))

2022-11-24 15:30: Identifying future-proof science (Peter Vickers (Durham University))

2023-01-19 15:30: Against presence empiricism (Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter))

2023-01-26 16:00: Live, and let live: medical recipes and technique of the socialized self across the Ming-Qing transition (He Bian (Princeton University))

2023-02-02 15:30: What can Covid modelling during the pandemic teach us about public participation in science? (Eric Winsberg (University of South Florida))

2023-02-16 15:30: Celebrating an anniversary in the history of science (Samir Boumediene (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon))

2023-02-23 15:30: Rationalizing discrimination (Zeynep Pamuk (LSE))

2023-03-09 15:30: Expertise or perspectives in dialogue? The role of lived experience in the mental health context (Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham))

2023-04-27 15:30: A look back at 'Biometrician Versus Mendelian: A Controversy and its Explanation' (1974) (Gregory Radick (University of Leeds))

2023-05-04 15:30: Expertise as perspectives in dialogue (Michael Larkin, Lisa Bortolotti, Michele Lim (University of Birmingham))

2023-05-11 15:30: Norms are like colours: naturalism and the constitutively perspectival (Denis Walsh (University of Toronto))

2023-05-18 15:30: Reading modern hands: identity and human types from palmistry to genetics (Alison Bashford (University of New South Wales))

2023-05-25 15:30: The doctor who wasn't there: technology, history, and the limits of telehealth (Jeremy Greene (Johns Hopkins University))

2023-06-01 16:30: Technology eats history: time and techno-metabolism in the Anthropocene (Paul N. Edwards (Stanford University))

2023-10-19 15:30: Photography and the art of science in nineteenth-century India (David Arnold (University of Warwick))

2023-10-26 15:30: Lineages as evolving processes (John Dupré (University of Exeter))

2023-11-02 15:30: If technology was the answer, what was the question? Digitisation and digital engagement with scientific collections (Catherine Eagleton (University of St Andrews))

2023-11-09 15:30: Where inattention pays (Jingyi Wu (London School of Economics))

2023-11-16 15:30: Lifecycle of a constant: e (Alistair Isaac (University of Edinburgh))

2023-11-23 15:30: The dream of orderly development: selling the importance of science in Arctic North America after 1945 (Peder Roberts (University of Stavanger))

2024-01-18 15:30: Pious labour: Islam, artisanship, and technology in colonial India (Amanda Lanzillo (Brunel University London))

2024-01-25 15:30: PhD Showcase (Various speakers)

2024-02-01 15:30: In defense of the medical model of obesity (Andreas De Block (KU Leuven))

2024-02-08 15:30: Slave trading and the imagination of the quantifiable body in the early modern South Atlantic (Pablo F. Gómez (University of Wisconsin–Madison))

2024-02-15 15:30: Conceptualising climate futures (Säde Hormio (University of Helsinki))

2024-02-22 15:30: Risky sex data: precision medicine, big data and the ossification of a sex binary (Marion Boulicault (University of Edinburgh))

2024-02-29 15:30: Split and splice: a phenomenology of experimentation (Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (MPIWG))

2024-03-07 15:30: Biotechnological artefacts and the in vivo/in vitro problem (Emma Tobin (University College London))

2024-04-25 15:30: Algorithmic diagnosis and the problem of statistical evidence (Sune Hannibal Holm (University of Copenhagen))

2024-05-02 15:30: Volcanoes and their lovers: a brief and biased history of volcanology (Clive Oppenheimer (Department of Geography))

2024-05-09 15:30: Cocoon cultures: the (dis)entangling of silk and biology in Japan (Lisa Onaga (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science))

2024-05-16 15:30: Opening the West with Japanese mermaid mummies: ningyo in the making of the theory of evolution (Mateja Kovacic (Hong Kong Baptist University))

2024-05-23 15:30: Gerd Buchdahl, Kantian philosopher of science (Nick Jardine (History and Philosophy of Science) and Angela Breitenbach (Philosophy))

2024-05-30 16:00: Technology and interconnection in Southeast Asia's longue durée (Suzanne Moon (University of Oklahoma))

2024-10-24 15:00: In praise of the inexact, the inelegant and the unassuming (Nancy Cartwright (Durham University, and University of California, San Diego))

2024-10-31 15:30: Models of information in structural biology (Agnes Bolinska (University of South Carolina))

2024-11-07 15:30: A problem for determining the structural features of experience: a pessimistic meta-induction (Fiona Macpherson (University of Glasgow))

2024-11-14 15:30: What does 'achromatic' mean? Refractions on the construction of early achromatic telescope lenses (Michael Korey (Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon of the Dresden State Art Collections))

2024-11-21 15:30: The many births of the test-tube baby: proof and publicity in claims to a breakthrough (Nick Hopwood (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2025-01-30 15:30: Pulling away from science, epistemic self-reliance, and the tale of Thabo Mbeki (Katherine Furman (University of Liverpool))

2025-02-06 15:30: Recalculating equality: data, race and environmental health models in 19th-century West Africa (Matthew Eddy (Durham University))

2025-02-13 15:30: Science as communication (Jim Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science))

2025-02-20 15:30: On conceptual engineering in psychiatry: is it time to eliminate or reappropriate the category of psychiatric disorder? (Miriam Solomon (Temple University))

2025-02-27 15:30: Where is Amazonia on display (today)? A global approach to understanding Amazonian collections (Neil Safier (Brown University))

2025-03-06 15:30: Unnecessary sleep: opium, the trial of Ann, and the therapeutic dilemma of slavery (Keith Wailoo (Princeton University))

2025-03-13 15:30: Creativity for the information age: making up minds and machines in the United States and the Soviet Union (Ekaterina Babintseva (Purdue University))

2025-05-01 15:30: Disinformation, denial, and the assault on truth (Lee McIntyre (Boston University))

2025-05-08 15:30: Doing your own patient activist research (Robin McKenna (University of Liverpool))

2025-05-15 15:30: The emergence of metascience: risks and opportunities (Felipe Romero (University of Groningen))

2025-05-22 16:00: Pinosaur redux: whose lives count in histories of extinction? (Sadiah Qureshi (University of Manchester))

2025-05-29 15:30: Mobilizing medicine (Eram Alam (Harvard University))

2025-06-05 15:30: But why here? Space technologies, the logic of location, and the violence of infrastructure (Asif Siddiqi (Fordham University))

2025-10-23 15:30: How scientific plurality and sociality enhance scientific objectivity (Helen Longino (Stanford University))

2025-10-30 15:30: The Board of Longitude: Science, Innovation and Empire – book launch event (Various speakers)

2025-11-06 15:30: When is measurement good? Evidence, validity, and values (Eran Tal (McGill University))

2025-11-13 15:30: Reservoirs of venereal diseases: women and medico-moral discourses in Idi Amin's Uganda (Doreen Kembabazi (Adyeeri) (University of Warwick))

2025-11-20 15:30: Institutionalizing values and science: the strengths of standardization in troubled times (Kevin C. Elliott (Michigan State University))

2025-11-27 15:30: Navigating origin stories: the mariner's compass as a narrative instrument (Paola Bertucci (Yale University))

2026-02-05 15:30: The secret causes of the Castle Bravo accident (Alex Wellerstein (Stevens Institute of Technology))

2026-02-12 15:30: Permission to know (Jessie Munton (Faculty of Philosophy))

2026-02-19 15:30: Chronic nation: the politics of experts, health and making modern Indian citizens (1940–70s) (Kavita Sivaramakrishnan (Columbia University))

2026-02-26 15:30: AI, automation, and the problem of error in science (Stephan Guttinger (University of Exeter))

2026-03-05 15:30: So friggin' likely: a public choice analysis of bureaucratic science (Eric Winsberg (University of Cambridge & University of South Florida))

2026-03-12 15:30: Sex as a process (Paul E. Griffiths (University of Sydney & Macquarie University))