Category: History & Philosophy of Science
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Tracking Traditional Medicine on the Vietnamese Internet: Dang Nguyen to Visit Yale
PhD candidate Dang Nguyen has been awarded a prestigious Fox International Fellowship, which will see her spend the 2019-2020 academic year at Yale University Graduate School. She spoke with Nicole Davis about her work. -
Fascinating Strangers: Dr Tessa Leach’s Work on Sex Robots
Advances in robotics raise all kinds of questions about how humans will relate to this new technology... In her recent PhD, Dr Tessa Leach explored an especially controversial aspect of this topic: the human-like sex robots that may soon be among us.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2019/04/12/fascinating-strangers
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Brian Nosek on the Open Science Movement
A lecture delivered by Brian Nosek as part of the 2019 SHAPS ‘Walls’ Public Lecture Series, on 4 April 2019. Publish or perish – a scientific career is based on getting published in peer reviewed academic journals. But this pressure increases the risk for scientists to employ flexible analytic and selective reporting practices. The Open […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2019/04/04/walls-can-fall-the-open-science-movement
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Disposal of the Dead: The Intersection of Death & Technology
Fallon Mody recently caught up with an interdisciplinary group of Melbourne-based researchers - including our own Associate Professor Mike Arnold - who think about death for a living.blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2019/02/18/disposal-of-the-dead
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The HPS Podcast
The HPS Podcast shares fascinating contemporary research in History and Philosophy of Science with those outside the discipline. Each episode is designed to be short, engaging and entertaining. Covering a wide range of topics, this is a podcast for anyone with a fascination for history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, human inquiry and those who simply wish to […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2019/01/28/the-hps-podcast
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Nicholas Barthel De Weydenthal
‘Risk and Organisation in Emergency and Environmental Management: A Philosophical and Ethnographic Investigation’ (PhD in History & Philosophy of Science, 2019). This thesis presents a novel analytic to studying the organisation of emergency and environmental management, namely by way of risk and its practices. It critically examines, situates, and problematises the concept of risk. Diagnosing […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/11/06/nicholas-barthel-de-weydenthal
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Tessa Leach
‘Anthropomorphic Machines: Alien Sensation and Experience in Nonhumans Created to Be Like Us’ (PhD in History & Philosophy of Science, 2018). This thesis is positioned at the intersection of technology studies and the nonhuman turn in the humanities. It argues that typical approaches to the study of technology omit any consideration of the alien nature […] -
Fallon Mody
‘Doctors Down Under: European Medical Migrants in Victoria (Australia), 1930–60′ (PhD in History & Philosophy of Science, 2019). The middle of the twentieth-century saw an unprecedented mass relocation of medical practitioners – through forced migration, military service, and as economic migrants. Between 1930 and 1960, over three thousand medical migrants – that is, overseas-trained medical […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/11/01/fallon-mody-2
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Michael Plater
‘Jack the Ripper: The Divided Self and the Alien Other in Late-Victorian Culture and Society’ (PhD in History & Philosophy of Science, 2019). This thesis examines late nineteenth-century public and media representations of the infamous ‘Jack the Ripper’ murders of 1888. Focusing on two of the most popular theories of the day – Jack as […]blogs.unimelb.edu.au/shaps-research/2016/10/28/michael-plater
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Eden Smith
‘The Structured Uses of Concepts as Tools: Comparing fMRI Experiments that Investigate either Mental Imagery or Hallucinations’ (PhD in History & Philosophy of Science, 2019). Sensations can occur in the absence of perception and yet be experienced ‘as if’ seen, heard, tasted, or otherwise perceived. Two concepts used to investigate types of these sensory-like mental […]
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