History and Philosophy of Science: University of Cambridge
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- Degree
- MPhil, PhD
- Address
- History and Philosophy of Science: University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH, Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Ads
- Subject
- History
- App Deadline
- MPhil and PhD: 15 Oct for applicants applying for Gates or ORS funding; 15 February for all other applicants
hps-...@lists.cam.ac.uk
- Website
- http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk
The Department is the largest of its kind in the UK, with an outstanding international reputation. At its heart are the Whipple Museum - a world-class collection of scientific instruments - and the Whipple Library, which has extensive holdings in all areas of the history, philosophy and sociology of science, technology and medicine.
Key research areas:
- History of medicine (Dr Lauren Kassell, Dr Nick Hopwood)
- History of the physical sciences (Prof Nick Jardine, Prof Simon Schaffer, Dr Liba Taub)
- Epistemology (Prof Martin Kusch, Prof Peter Lipton)
- History of the life and earth sciences (Prof Jim Secord)
- History of natural history (Prof Nick Jardine)
- Philosophy of science (Prof Martin Kusch, Dr Tim Lewens, Prof Peter Lipton)
- History of instruments (Dr Liba Taub)
- Philosophy of biology (Dr Tim Lewens)
- Sociology of science (Prof Martin Kusch, Prof Simon Schaffer)
- Historiography of the sciences (Prof Nick Jardine)
- History and philosophy of the human sciences (Prof John Forrester)
- Philosophy of mind (Prof John Forrester, Prof Martin Kusch, Prof Peter Lipton)
- History of mathematics (Dr Eleanor Robson)
- Bioethics (Dr Tim Lewens)
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