Trust is a central category in the social history of science and philosophy of scientific practice. It is far from obvious that trust should be placed in the veracity and...

Collection: Virtual Conversations

Institution: Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Created: Wed 10 Jun 2020

Historians of medicine study numerous periods and places, traditions of healing, and kinds of knowledge and practice. What does this rich and diverse field contribute towards...

Collection: Virtual Conversations

Institution: Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Created: Tue 19 May 2020

How was natural knowledge made in colonial encounters across the early modern period? How did natural knowledge contribute to the construction of racial and ethnic difference? And...

Collection: Virtual Conversations

Institution: Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Created: Tue 26 May 2020

The threats of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, and the effectiveness and harms of the social policies meant to mitigate these threats, rapidly became the most important scientific issues...

Collection: Virtual Conversations

Institution: Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Created: Wed 13 May 2020

Recent decades have seen pleas and initiatives for public participation in science as a way of increasing the trustworthiness of knowledge production and making it more...

Collection: Virtual Conversations

Institution: Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Created: Thu 2 Jul 2020