Professor Nicholas Jardine FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2004
- Subjects
- History, Philosophy
- Sections
- Early Modern History to 1850 , Philosophy
Summary
Nicholas Jardine (born 4 September 1943) is a British mathematician, philosopher of science and its history, historian of astronomy and natural history, and amateur mycologist. He is Emeritus Professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) at the University of Cambridge. Jardine was educated at Monkton Combe School in Somerset and read natural sciences at King's College, Cambridge. He then worked as a King's College and Royal Society Research Fellow on the automation of classification and information retrieval and its applications to biological taxonomy and diagnosis. In 1975 he moved to Darwin College, Cambridge and to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Since then he has developed a question-based pragmatic philosophy of science (inspired by the work of Ian Hacking), as well as studying the history of early-modern astronomy and natural history. Currently he is writing a book on the aims and methods of histories of the sciences.
Current post
Professor of History and Philosophy of the Sciences, University of Cambridge
Past appointments
University of Cambridge Professor of History and Philosophy of the Sciences
1992 -
University of Cambridge Professor of History and Philosophy of the Sciences, University of Cambridge
1992 -
University of Cambridge Professor of History and Philosophy of the Sciences, University of Cambridge
1992 -
Unknown Unknown Editor, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
1987 -
University of Cambridge Current Post
1975 -
Unknown Unknown Royal Society Research Fellow
1968 - 1973
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Sir Christopher Clark FBA
The history of 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century Prussia, Germany and Europe, especially the history of religion and religious conflict, the impact of the revolutions of 1848, the outbreak of the First World War and variations in the historical experience of
Professor Lauren Benton FBA
The global history of European empires; legal history of the British and Spanish empires; the history of international law; legal theory.
Professor Brian Cummings FBA
Renaissance humanism and European literature 1450-1700; the history of religion in relation to the history of the book; literary theory and the history of philosophy
