Subject areas
The topics of your essays and dissertation should each fall within the following specified subject areas. (The most relevant Part II paper for each subject area is shown in the right-hand column.)
| 1 | Ancient, medieval and early modern sciences | Paper 1 |
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| 2 | Ancient, medieval and early modern medicine | Paper 1 |
| 3 | Sciences in the age of empire, c. 1750–1900 | Paper 2 |
| 4 | Modern medicine and biomedical sciences | Paper 3 |
| 5 | Modern sciences | Paper 2 |
| 6 | Metaphysics, epistemology and the sciences | Paper 5 |
| 7 | Ethics and politics of medicine and the sciences | Paper 6 |
| 8 | Philosophy of the physical sciences | Paper 4 |
| 9 | Philosophy of biology and the life sciences | Paper 4 |
| 10 | Philosophy of social and cognitive sciences | Paper 4 |