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The Board of History and Philosophy of Science give notice that the prescribed sources for the essay component of the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part II, in History and Philosophy of Science, 2002-03, are as follows:
| 1. | Saul A. Kripke, Wittgenstein on rules and private language, Chapter 2 (1982). |
| 2. | Sigmund Freud, The psychogenesis of a case of female homosexuality (1920). |
| 3. | A. Gessell and J. A. Singh, Wolf child and human child: being a narrative interpretation of the life history of Kamala, the wolf girl. New York: Harper and Bros., 1941. |
| 4. | David Hume, 'Of Miracles' in Enquiry concerning human understanding (1748). |
| 5. | The miraculous revival of Anne Green, as described in a pamphlet from 1651. |
| 6. | William Paley, Natural theology (1800), chapters 1-6. |
| 7. | Tyndall, Crookes, and Wallace, On Spiritualism and Science (1864-1874). |
| 8. | Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859 edition). |
| 9. | Claudius Ptolemy, The Almagest, Book 1, chapters 1-9. |
Candidates are required to write two essays, each on a source chosen from the list of prescribed sources, and each of not more than 3,000 words in length (including footnotes, but excluding bibliography), prepared on the basis of attending Primary Sources seminars, which will run twice weekly in the first half of Michaelmas Term 2002.
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Cambridge University Reporter, 12 June 2002
Copyright © 2002 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars
of the University of Cambridge.