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Natural Selection Reconsidered
In this thesis, I inspect some key assumptions which tend to underpin mainstream accounts of natural selection, noting where those assumptions break down and taking this as a basis for fresh analysis. First, I examine the ... -
Mixed Signals: Communication with the Alien in Cold War Radio Astronomy
(2022-02-26)This dissertation examines the development of radio astronomy and the search for and communication with extraterrestrial intelligence (CETI) from the 1950s through to the early 1980s, with the aim of understanding how these ... -
The event horizon as a vanishing point: A history of the first image of a black hole shadow from observation
(2021-07-23)In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (EHTC) released the first image of the shadow of a black hole based on observation. This is the closest astronomers have come to imaging a celestial object from which no ... -
Predicting the Effectiveness of Medical Interventions
This dissertation explores several conceptual and methodological features of medical science that influence our ability to accurately predict medical effectiveness. Making reliable predictions about the effectiveness of ...
