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Department of History and Philosophy of Science

 

Emeritus

  • Dr Andrew Cunningham: History of medicine
  • Professor Nick Jardine: Early-modern cosmology; historiography of the sciences; history of natural history
  • Professor Martin Rudwick: History of earth sciences
  • Professor Simon Schaffer: History of physical science; social history of science
  • Professor Jim Secord: Social history of science; life and earth sciences
  • Professor Liba Taub: History of scientific instruments; early science and astronomy

Affiliated Scholars

  • Dr Jenny Bangham: History of medicine and the biomedical sciences
  • Dr Riana Betzler: Philosophy of science; ethics; moral psychology
  • Dr Fabrizio Bigotti: Pre-modern history of science; technology, and medicine
  • Dr Lewis Bremmer: Recent history of science; technology, and medicine
  • Dr Robert Bud: History of technology, museology; chemistry and biosciences
  • Dr Andrew Buskell  Science and technology studies; history and philosophy of science, applied ethics and politics.
  • Dr Tatjana Buklijas: History and social studies of biomedical and biological sciences
  • Dr Soraya de Chadarevian: History of biology and biomedicine
  • Dr Silvia De Renzi: History of scientific publishing
  • Dr Katy Duncan: Historical studies in the natural sciences
  • Dr Matthew Eddy: Science and technology studies; history and philosophy of science; media studies; environmental humanities; medical humanities; gender studies; the enlightenment (and its afterlives)
  • Dr Nader El-Bizri
  • Dr Gianamar Giovanetti-Singh: Colonial environmental history and decolonial Futures
  • Dr Marion Godman: Natural kinds; philosophy of psychology; philosophy of biology
  • Dr Yijie Huang: Early modern medicine and natural philosophy
  • Dr Milena Ivanova: Philosophy of science; epistemology; metaphysics
  • Dr Ivana Markova:  Nature of insight in psychiatry; descriptive psychopathology; neuropsychiatry. 
  • Dr Richard A. McKay: 20th-century history of medicine and public health
  • Dr Jaume Navarro: History of physics
  • Dr Jeremy Schneider: Early modern science; premodern knowledge of earth, life, and environment
  • Dr Helene Scott-Fordsmand
  • Dr Anne Secord: 19th-century popular science
  • Dr Miriam Solomon: Gender, sexuality, and women’s Studies
  • Professor Mark Tonelli: Philosophy and epistemology of clinical decision-making
  • Dr Paul White: Life sciences in Victorian Britain
  • Dr Jia Yu: 19th and 20th century; natural history; history of medicine; books and periodicals of science; science technology studies (STS); global history of science communications; society and the institutionalization of knowledge

HPS Scholars in the Collegiate University

  • Dr Shahar Avin (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk): Social epistemology; research policy; artificial intelligence; existential risks
  • Dr Sara Baker (Faculty of Education): Cognitive science and education
  • Dr Debby Banham (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic): Anglo-Saxon medicine
  • Professor Alexander Bird (Faculty of Philosophy): Philosophy of science; metaphysics; epistemology
  • Dr Michael Bravo (Department of Geography): Scientific research and Arctic exploration
  • Dr Angela Breitenbach (Faculty of Philosophy): History of modern philosophy; the philosophy of Kant
  • Dr Shawn M. Bullock (Faculty of Education): History of physics and technology; history of science education
  • Dr Katrina Dean (University Library): Archives; history of science and technology
  • Dr Neil Dewar (Faculty of Philosophy): Philosophy of physics; logic
  • Professor Saul Dubow (Faculty of History): Imperial and post-colonial history and history of science
  • Dr Robbie Duschinsky (Department of Public Health and Primary Care): History and sociology of psychological research and practice
  • Professor Kevin Edwards (Clare Hall): 19th and 20th century science; history of palaeoecology
  • Dr Seb Falk (Girton College): Science in the later middle ages
  • Professor Sarah Franklin (Department of Sociology): Cultural analysis of new reproductive technologies
  • Dr Marina Frasca-Spada (Corpus Christi College): History of philosophy from Descartes to Kant; history of philosophy of science; 18th-century studies
  • Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya (CRASSH): Anthropology, history and sociology of knowledge, science and technology
  • Professor Richard Holton (Faculty of Philosophy): Moral psychology; ethics; philosophy of law; philosophy of language
  • Ms Shelley Innes (Darwin Correspondence Project, University Library): Correspondence of Charles Darwin
  • Dr Richard Jennings (Queens' College): Philosophy of language; science and ethics
  • Professor Martin Johnson (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience): History of recent embryology
  • Mr Peter Jones (King's College): Medieval medicine
  • Dr Melanie Keene (Homerton College): 19th-century 'popular science'; science and literature
  • Professor Sachiko Kusukawa (Fellow in HPS, Trinity College): History of science; cultural and intellectual history; the history of the book
  • Professor Tony Lawson (Faculty of Economics): Economics and philosophy
  • Dr Kathy Liddell (Faculty of Law): Medical law, emerging technologies and intellectual property
  • Professor Benedikt Löwe (Faculty of Mathematics): Philosophy of mathematics, logic
  • Mr Scott Mandelbrote (Faculty of History): History of natural philosophy
  • Professor Peter Mandler (Faculty of History): British cultural, intellectual and social history
  • Dr Alexander Marr (Department of History of Art): Early modern English visual culture
  • Professor Jianjun Mei (Needham Research Institute): Metallurgy in early China; cultural interactions between China and the West
  • Dr Lukas Meier (Churchill College): Philosophy of medicine
  • Dr Laure Miolo (Corpus Christi College): Late medieval astronomy/astrology
  • Dr Simon Mitton (St Edmund's College): History of astronomy and cosmology
  • Dr Samuel A. Moore (University Library and Homerton College): Academic publishing and open science
  • Dr Francis Neary (Darwin Correspondence Project, University Library): History of modern medical technologies
  • Dr Alison Pearn (Darwin Correspondence Project, University Library): Correspondence of Charles Darwin
  • Dr Katherine Reinhart (CRASSH): Visual culture and scientific practice
  • Dr Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College): Early-modern intellectual history
  • Dr William Simpson (St Edmund's College): Metaphysics; philosophy of physics; philosophy of nature; Aristotelianism
  • Professor Sujit Sivasundaram (Faculty of History): Global and imperial histories of science, technology and medicine
  • Dr Jeff Skopek (Faculty of Law): Medical law and ethics
  • Dr Katherine Smart (Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology): Brewing and distilling science
  • Elizabeth Smith (Digital Curator, University Library): 19th-century science collections
  • Professor Richard M. Smith (Department of Geography): Historical demography and the social history of medicine
  • Professor Emma Spary (Faculty of History): History of natural history; history of food and consumption
  • Professor Simon Szreter (Faculty of History): History and public policy
  • Emeritus Professor Keith S. Taber (Faculty of Education): Science education, including teaching and learning about the nature of science
  • Dr Deborah Thom (Robinson College): Early 20th-century human sciences
  • Dr Daniel Wilson (CRASSH): 19th- and 20th-century science and technology