Timetable for Michaelmas Term 2026 | Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday

10am
Weeks 1–8: HMS MPhil (10.15–11.45)
Weeks 1–4: Part II Paper 4: Philosophy of Climate Science

11am
Weeks 1–2: Part II Paper 2: Sciences of Territory and Population
Weeks 3–4: Part II Paper 2: Technoscience in Latin America
Weeks 5–8: Part II Paper 2: Physical Sciences, Empire and Modernity

12noon
Week 5: Part II Writing Support Seminar

2pm
Weeks 1–4: Part II Paper 6/13_4: Science in Governance
Weeks 5–8: Part II Paper 6: Sociology of Science

Friday

10am
Weeks 1–4: Part II Primary Source: Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist

11am
Weeks 1–8: Part II Paper 5: Realism

12noon
Weeks 1–4: Part II Paper 1/13_1: Early Medicine: An Introduction
Weeks 5–8: Part II Paper 1: Natural Knowledge in the Enlightenment

2pm
Weeks 1–4: Part II Primary Source: The Sextant

5pm
Weeks 1–8: Part IB: Natural Knowledges

Monday

10am
Weeks 1–8: HMS MPhil (10.00–11.30)
Weeks 1–4: Part II Primary Source: Cause and Effect in Biology

12noon
Weeks 1–4: Part II Paper 3/13_2: Science in the Making of Modern Medicine
Weeks 5–6: Part II Paper 3/13_2: Medicine, Race and Ethnicity
Weeks 7–8: Part II Paper 3: Biology: Lab and Field

2pm
Weeks 1–8: HMS MPhil (2.00–3.30)

4pm
Weeks 1–8: Part II Paper 6/107/13_4: Ethics and Politics of Science of Medicine

5pm
Weeks 1–4: Part IB: What Is Science?
Weeks 5–8: Part IB: Is Social Science an Oxymoron?

Tuesday

10am
Weeks 1–8: HPSM MPhil & Part III Follow-Up Seminar
Weeks 1–4: Part II Primary Source: Agnotology

12noon
Weeks 1–4: Part II Paper 1: Natural Knowledge Before 1400
Weeks 5–8: Part II Paper 1/13_1: Early Modern Natural Knowledge

2pm
Weeks 1–4: Part II Paper 3/13_2: Science in the Making of Modern Medicine
Weeks 5–6: Part II Paper 3/13_2: Medicine, Race and Ethnicity
Weeks 7–8: Part II Paper 3: Biology: Lab and Field

3pm
Weeks 1–8: HMS MPhil (3.00–4.30)
Weeks 2,5–7: Part II Research Methods Seminar

4pm
Weeks 1–4: Part II Paper 4/107/13_3: Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences: Concepts and Evidence
Weeks 5–8: Part II Paper 4/107: Philosophy of Environmental Science

Wednesday

10am
Weeks 1–8: HPSM MPhil & Part III Follow-Up Seminar
Weeks 1–4: Part II Primary Source: Francis Bacon, New Atlantis

11am
Week 1: Part II Research Methods Seminars
Weeks 6–8: Part II Writing Support Seminars

12noon
Weeks 1–8: Part II Paper 5/13_3: Causality, Laws and Explanation

1pm
Week 4: Part II How to Survive HPS

2pm
Weeks 1–4: Part II Primary Source: Darkness in El Dorado

3pm
Weeks 1–8: HPSM MPhil & Part III Lecture (3.00–4.30)
Week 4: Part II Research Methods Seminar

5pm
Weeks 1–4: Part IB: Natural Knowledges
Weeks 5–8: Part IB: Space, Time and Reality: Philosophy of Physics