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University of Leeds
Division of History and Philosophy of Science
School of Philosophy
Postgraduate Studentships
The School of Philosophy (including the Division of History and
Philosophy of Science) at the University of Leeds can offer up to *four*
Studentships for postgraduate study in History and Philosophy of Science
or Philosophy, beginning October 1999. The studentships are open to both
MA and PhD candidates and recipients are expected to do some teaching.
The awards cover full fees and together with payment for teaching,
successful applicants can expect to receive #5,500 (pounds sterling).
PhD awards are for one year in the first instance, renewal being subject to
satisfactory progress.
The deadline for applications is March 31.
Candidates who do not receive a studentship may nevertheless still be
eligible to undertake paid teaching in the School to support their
postgraduate studies, or to receive some remission of fees, if appropriate.
Further details and application forms can be obtained from:
Graduate Admissions Tutor,
School of Philosophy
The University,
Leeds LS2 9JT
Tel: 0113 233 3263
Email: [log in to unmask]
Details of MA and PhD programmes in History and Philosophy of Science are
given below and can be found on the WWW at
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/html/hps.htm
MA in History and Philosophy of Science at Leeds
The Division of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds
is one of the few such units where historians and philosophers of science
actually teach and conduct research together and the MA in History and
Philosophy of Science has been designed to reflect this collaboration.
Students take a common core of modules and may then go on to specialise
in any of a wide range of areas.
The structure of the course is as follows:
Core component (3 x 20 credits)
Modern Science: Its Historical Emergence and Philosophical
Interpretations
Current Research in History and Philosophy of Science
Either
Historical Skills and Practices
or
Issues in Philosophy of Science
Options (20 credits):
Historical Skills and Methods or Issues in Philosophy of Science (whichever
is not taken as part of the core)
History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
History of the Biological Sciences
Science, Technology and Society
Gender, Science and Technology
Childbirth in Seventeenth-Century England
Historiography
Dissertation (40 credits)
(Since circumstances can change very quickly, The University does
regretfully reserve its absolute right, without any liability, to withdraw
modules at any time if in its opinion it is impracticable for them to run.)
PhD in History and Philosophy of Science
The Division can offer PhD supervision in such areas as
science and religion,
the social history of laboratories,
the history and philosophy of technology,
the history of chemistry,
the history of medicine,
the history of biology,
the history and philosophy of physics,
linguistic and textual aspects of science,
gender and science,
realist and empiricist approaches to science,
and
the nature of scientific theories and models,
among others.
Further information on research degrees in History and Philosophy of
Science can be found at:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/html/research_degrees.htm
Recent publications by members of staff include the following:
Geoffrey Cantor:
Michael Faraday: Sandemanian and Scientist, Macmillan, 1991;
Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion (with John
Brook), T&T Clark, 1998.
John Christie:
'A Tragedy for Cyborgs', Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science
and Technology; 1 (1993) pp. 171-196;
'Historiography of chemistry in the eighteenth century: Hermann
Boerhaave and William Cullen', Ambix 41 (1994) pp. 4-19;
'The Paracelsan Body', in O. Grell (ed.), Paracelsus: The Man and His
Reputation, Brill, 1998.
Steven French:
'Models and Mathematics in Physics: the Role of Group Theory', in
J. Butterfield and C. Pagonis (eds.), From Physics to Philosophy, Cambridge
University Press 1999;
'The Logic of Quanta', with Decio Krause, in T. Cao (ed.), Conceptual
Foundations of Quantum Field Theory, Cambridge University Press 1999;
'Superconductivity and Structures: Revisiting the London Account', (with
James Ladyman), Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 28
(1997) pp. 363-393.
Graeme Gooday:
'The Morals of Energy Metering: constructing and deconstructing the
precision of the Victorian electrical engineer's ammeter and voltmeter' in
M.N.Wise (ed.) The Values of Precision, Princeton University Press, 1995;
'Instrumentation and Interpretation: Managing and Representing the
Working Environments of Victorian Experimental Science', in B.Lightman
(ed.)"Victorian Science in Context", Chicago University Press, 1997.
Jon Hodge:
Origins and Species, Garland Pub. Inc., 1991;
'Natural selection as a Causal, Empiriical and Probabilistic Theory in L.
Kruger et. al. (eds.), The Probabilistic Revolution, Vol. 2, MIT Press;
'Biology and Philosophy (including Ideology): A Study of Fisher and Wright',
in S. Sarkar (ed.), The Founders of Evolutionary Genetics, Kluwer, 1992.
Jonathan Topham:
'Beyond the "common context": the Production and Reading of the
Bridgewater Treatises', Isis 89 (1998) pp. 233-363;
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Vol. 10, ed. with F.H. Burkhardt,
D.M. Porter, and J. Harvey, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Jack Morrell:
Science at Oxford, 1914-1939: transforming an Arts University, Clarendon
Press 1997;
Science, Culture, and Politics in Britain, Variorum, 1997.
Adrian Wilson:
The Making of Man-midwifery: childbirth in England, 1660-1770, UCL Press
and Harvard University Press, 1995;
'Conflict, consensus and charity: politics and the provincial
voluntary hospitals in the eighteenth century', The English Historical
Review CXI (1996) pp. 599-619.
The Division's Senior Seminar series features invited speakers from the UK
and abroad and there is a weekly informal research seminar as well as a
Graduate Workshop. Recent and forthcoming speakers at the Senior
Seminar include Rhodri Hayward, James Ladyman, Francis Dawbarn, Greg
Radick, Richard Noakes and Otavio Bueno.
Recent conferences organised by the Division include 'The Museums Forum',
'Many Minds, Many Worlds and Quantum Physics', 'Collingwood' (organised
jointly with the Philosophy section), the Annual Meeting of the British
Society for the Philosophy of Science and the Annual Meeting of the
British Society for the History of Science, which in 1997 was held in
conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science.
Together with the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies at the
University of Sheffield, the Division has received significant funding from
the Humanities Research Board and Leverhulme Trust to support the SciPer
Project (Science in General Nineteenth-Century Periodicals Project). This
has allowed for the funding of three new Post-doctoral Research
Fellowships in this area.
The University of Leeds
The University of Leeds is one of the UK's major teaching and research
universities with over 22,000 students, of whom almost 5,000 are
postgraduates. The library contains an extensive collection in history and
philosophy of science and the British Library Lending Division at Boston
Spa is only 15 miles away. The cost of living is relatively low and most
students live within walking distance or a short bus-ride of the
University. There is an active Student Union whose building incorporates a
range of facilities, including a supermarket, bookshop and, of course,
several bars.
The city itself enjoys a national reputation as a lively and innovative
focus of cultural activities, from dance clubs and live music pubs to an
award-winning theatre and the new Royal Armouries Museum. The car-free
downtown area boasts numerous cafes and bookshops, together with
some of the largest music stores outside London, set among restored
Victorian arcades. Some of the most beautiful countryside in Britain can
be found within a short bus or train ride of the city centre.
For further information about studentships and funding in general,
contact the Graduate Admissions Tutor above;
for further information about the Division
contact Steven French at
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http://www.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/french/french.htm
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Chair, Division of History and Philosophy of Science
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http://www.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/html/french.htm
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/philosophy/html/hps.htm
'Natural science is of a constructive character. The concepts with
which it deals are not qualities or attributes which can be obtained
from the objective world by direct cognition. They can only be
determined by an indirect methodology, by observing their reaction
with other bodies, and their implicit definition is consequently
conditioned by definite laws of nature governing reactions.' (H. Weyl,
The Theory of Groups and Quantum Mechanics p. 76)
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