Browsing Theses - History and Philosophy of Science by Title
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Breaking the grant cycle: on the rational allocation of public resources to scientific research projects
(2015-04-07)The thesis presents a reformative criticism of science funding by peer review. The criticism is based on epistemological scepticism, regarding the ability of scientific peers, or any other agent, to have access to sufficient ... -
Elias Allen and the role of instruments in shaping the mathematical culture of seventeenth-century England
(1996-05-07)Elias AlIen (c.1588-1653) was known as the best mathematical instrument maker of his day. He lived and worked in London, creating a thriving business - he was the first English instrument maker to support himself solely ... -
Improving instruments: equatoria, astrolabes, and the practices of monastic astronomy in late medieval England
(2016-06-28)Histories of medieval astronomy have brought to light a rich textual tradition, of treatises and tables composed and computed, transmitted and translated across Europe and beyond. These have been supplemented by fruitful ... -
Inns of Court and the Reformation 1530-1580
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Jurgen Habermas and transcendental philosophy.
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The Keynesian Revolution: A Research School Analysis
(2009)Various explanations have been put forward as to why the "Keynesian. Revolution occurred. Some of these point to the temporal relevance of the General Theory while others highlight the importance of more anecdotal evidence, ... -
Object lessons: sensory science education 1830-1870
(2009-04-14)The Victorian nursery was filled with the potential for scientific lessons. From the bookshelves, children could listen to fairy-tales of wondrous forces and minuscule creatures; from the toy-chest, they could play with ... -
The pursuit of nature: defining natural histories in eighteenth-century Britain
(2012-10-09)Many histories of natural history see it as a descriptive science, as a clear forerunner to modern studies of classification, ecology and allied sciences. But this thesis argues that the story of unproblematic progression ... -
A reverse counterfactual analysis of causation
(2007-11-20)Lewis’s counterfactual analysis of causation starts with the claim that c causes e if ~ C > ~ E, where c and e are events, C and E are the propositions that c and e respectively occur, ~ is negation and > is the counterfactual ... -
Shaping science with the past : textbooks, history, and the disciplining of genetics
(2008-10)Science is generally not thought of as being deeply historiographical. Although it is clear that scientists frequently write about history in their work — that, for example, they identify the significance of an advance by ... -
Teaching natural philosophy and mathematics at Oxford and Cambridge 1500-1570
(2008-04-22)The syllabus in natural philosophy and mathematics was radically changed in the course of the sixteenth century with new subjects, textbooks and methods introduced. Education became more practical and less dependent on ...
