Theses - History and Philosophy of Science
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Pests, Knowledge and Boundaries in the Early Union of South Africa: categorising, controlling, conserving
This dissertation interrogates the relationships between humans and animals responsible for creating ‘pests’ as an element in the physical and intellectual landscape of rural South Africa in the 1910s through the 1930s. ... -
The eye of the needle: magnetic survey and the compass of capital in the age of revolution and reform
This thesis charts the globalising role of British geomagnetism in the age of revolution and reform. In the earlier decades of the nineteenth century, significant fiscal-military state resources were directed toward linking ... -
Conceptual Challenges in Cultural Selection
(2020-07-18)The aim of my thesis is to address key conceptual challenges within cultural selection, in order to provide a rigorous evaluation of its promise and scope. Cultural selection, a process analogous to natural selection which ... -
On Inter-Theoretic Relations and Scientific Realism
(2020-05-04)This thesis addresses three contemporary debates in the philosophy of science: namely, scientific realism, emergence, and theoretical equivalence. The thesis brings logico-semantic tools of the analytic tradition—about ...
