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 Ulinka Rublack FBA
Cultural, social and religious history of the early modern world, comparative work on Protestantism and on material culture, with a focus on Germany
Professor Simon Schaffer FBA
Social & intellectual history of experimental philosophy & exact sciences between the seventeenth & nineteenth centuries; historiography & sociology of scientific knowledge; the sciences & European imperialism
Professor David A. Bell FBA
The history of the late-18th and early-19th century "Age of Revolution", with a particular emphasis on political culture and the French Revolution
