Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Affiliates

Please note that only the people marked * have an office in the Department.

Affiliated Lecturers and College Teaching Officers

College Fellows

  • Dr Jeremy Butterfield (Trinity College): Philosophy of physics
  • Dr Paul Dicken (Churchill College): Scientific realism, structural realism and constructive empiricism
  • Dr David Feller (Darwin College): History of natural history and evolution
  • Dr Sacha Golob (Peterhouse): History of modern philosophy
  • * Dr Stephen John (Hughes Hall): Public health ethics; epistemology and ethics
  • Mr Peter Jones (King's College): Medieval medicine
  • Dr Melanie Keene (Homerton College): 19th-century 'popular science'; science and literature
  • Dr Simon Mitton (St Edmund's College): History of astronomy and cosmology
  • Dr Leon Rocha (Emmanuel College): History of science, technology and medicine in modern China
  • Dr Frances Willmoth (Jesus College): 17th-century astronomy

Other people at the University of Cambridge

Affiliated Research Scholars

  • Dr Jon Agar: History of science and technology
  • Dr Robert Anderson: History of chemistry and scientific instruments
  • Dr Lisa Appignanesi: History of psychoanalysis
  • Dr Debby Banham: Anglo-Saxon medicine
  • Dr Andrew Barry: History of technology and society
  • Professor German E. Berrios: History of psychopathology and psychiatry
  • Dr Sanjoy Bhattacharya: History of medicine in South Asia
  • Dr Adam Bostanci: Sociology of science and philosophy of biology
  • Professor Peter Bowler: Science and society; history of scientific ideas about biology, race and evolution
  • Dr Angela Breitenbach: Kant's philosophy, environmental philosophy, philosophy of biology
  • Dr Elma Brenner: History of leprosy, hospitals and charity in medieval Western Europe
  • Dr Alex Broadbent: Causation, counterfactuals and inference
  • Dr Kevin Brosnan: Metaethics, epistemology, philosophy of biology, bioethics
  • Professor Janet Browne: History of the life sciences and natural history
  • Dr Robert Bud: History of technology, museology, chemistry and biosciences
  • Dr Tatjana Buklijas: History of medicine and biology
  • Dr Cristina Chimisso: 20th-century French philosophy; historiography of the sciences
  • Dr Alix Cohen: Kant; history of modern philosophy
  • Professor Christopher Cullen: History of astronomy, mathematics and medicine in China
  • Ms Shinjini Das: History of medicine in 19th-century India
  • Dr Soraya de Chadarevian: History of biology and biomedicine
  • Dr Silvia De Renzi: History of scientific publishing
  • Professor John Durant: Public perceptions of science and technology
  • Dr Catherine Eagleton: Scientific instruments
  • Dr Michael Edwards: History of the concepts of time and space
  • Dr Nader El-Bizri: Arabic sciences and philosophy; phenomenology
  • Mr Roger Gaskell: Rare books
  • Dr Jeremy Gray: History of mathematics
  • Dr Ole Grell: History of medicine and religion
  • Dr Philippa Hardman: Science and gender
  • Professor Anne Harrington: History of psychiatry, neuroscience and the behavioral sciences
  • Professor Sonia Horn: History of medical education, 18th and 19th centuries
  • Dr Gill Hudson: History of medicine
  • Ms Shelley Innes: Correspondence of Charles Darwin
  • Dr Catherine Jami: History of mathematics in early modern China
  • Dr Richard Jennings: Philosophy of language; science and ethics
  • Dr Ludmilla Jordanova: Cultural history of science and medicine
  • Dr Elselijn Kingma: Philosophy of medicine
  • Professor Martin Kusch: Philosophy of language and mind; epistemology; science and technology studies
  • Professor Gerald Kutcher: History of medicine, science, public health and bioethics; social studies of science
  • Dr Emese Lafferton: Social history of science and medicine; medical sociology; history of psychiatry
  • Dr Christopher Lewis: Early modern natural philosophy
  • Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd: Ancient science and medicine
  • Ms Helen Macdonald: History of ecology
  • Dr Lara Marks: History of the biotechnology industry
  • Dr Anita McConnell: History of earth sciences
  • Dr Christina McLeish: Explanation, inference and realism
  • Professor Jim Moore: Social history of 'science and religion' since 1800
  • Dr Adam Mosley: History of astronomy
  • Dr Ayesha Nathoo: History of 20th-century medicine, science and medical communication
  • Dr Jaume Navarro: History of physics
  • Dr Onora O'Neill: Bioethics
  • Professor John Parker: History of botany
  • Dr Alison Pearn: Correspondence of Charles Darwin
  • Dr Katy Price: Literature and science
  • Dr Sadiah Qureshi: Endangered peoples and human display in the 19th century
  • Professor Michael Redhead (Emeritus Professor): Philosophy of physics
  • Professor Martin Rudwick: History of earth sciences
  • Professor Colin A. Russell: History of chemistry; environmental history
  • Dr Christine Salazar: Graeco-Roman and Byzantine medicine; history of military medicine
  • Dr Anne Secord: 19th-century popular science
  • Dr Alistair Sponsel: History of earth and environmental sciences
  • Dr Jacqueline Stedall: History of mathematics
  • Professor Rebecca Stott: Evolution and literature; 19th-century marine zoology
  • Dr Laurence Totelin: History of Graeco-Roman science and medicine
  • Dr Martin Underwood: History of nuclear physics
  • Dr Andrew Wear: Early-modern history of medicine
  • Professor Rick Welch: History of physics and biology
  • Dr Paul White: Life sciences in Victorian Britain
  • Dr Sarah Wilmot: History of reproductive technologies; history of agricultural and veterinary science
  • Professor Catherine Wilson: Metaphysics, epistemology and ethics
  • Dr Daniel Wilson: 19th and 20th-century science and technology
  • Dr Elie Zahar: Logic and scientific method