Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Primary sources seminars

Michaelmas Term
Paper 1: Philoponus, Commentary on Aristotle's Meteorology
Liba Taub, David Leith, Isla Fay
Wed 2pm (weeks 1–4)
Paper 2: Fracastoro, Contagion, Contagious Diseases and their Treatment
Karin Ekholm
Thu 3pm (weeks 1–4)
Paper 3: The Board of Longitude
Simon Schaffer, Nicky Reeves, Roger Gaskell and others
Wed 11am (weeks 1–4)
Paper 4: Charles Darwin's correspondence
Paul White, Sophie Defrance, David Feller, Philippa Hardman, Shelley Innes, Francis Neary, Anne Secord
Tue 11am (weeks 1–4)
Paper 5: Dear Dr Stopes: Sex in the 1920s
Vanessa Heggie, Nick Hopwood, Salim Al-Gailani
Tue 2pm (weeks 1–4)
Paper 6: Hacking, Representing and Intervening
Hasok Chang, Christina McLeish
Fri 10am (weeks 1–4)
Paper 7: Haldane and Russell
Leon Rocha
Mon 2pm (weeks 1–4)
Paper 8: Galileo, responses to the 'tower argument'
Hasok Chang
Mon 11am (weeks 1–4)
Paper 9: Hume, Treatise of Human Nature
Marina Frasca-Spada
Thu 10am (weeks 1–4)
Paper 10: Mill, The System of Logic
Anna Alexandrova
Fri 3pm (weeks 1–4)

Part II students are expected to attend four sets of four primary sources seminars – those associated with the papers they are taking plus, for Option A students, the seminars of one other source of their choice – and to write 3,000-word essays on two of the sources.