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, 2007-08, are as follows:
| Paper 1 | Letters, Queries, and Reports from Assyrian Scholars (http://cdl.museum.upenn.edu/hea/). |
| Paper 2 | Fontenelle, tr, Behn, 'A Discovery of New Worlds' (1688). |
| Paper 3 | F. Burkhardt (ed), Charles Darwin's Letters: A Selection, 1825-1859; http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/ |
| Paper 4 | Gould and Lewontinu, The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme. |
| Paper 5 | Paul Boghossian, Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2006), Chapters 5-7. |
| Paper 6 | Freud, S., 'Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis' (1909) ['The Rat Man'] in: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume X (1909): Two Case Histories ('Little Hans' and the 'Rat Man') Vol. 10, London: Hogarth Press, 1955, pp. 155-249 |
| Paper 7 | 'On Regimen' (Hippocrates. With an English translation by W. H. S. Jones). Vol. IV, pp. 224-447. |
| Paper 8 | The Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration, HMSO, 1904. [Sometimes cited as the Report on Physical Deterioration, or other variants and listed under the authorship of the chairman Sir Almeric Fitzroy] |
| Paper 9 | C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution [1959], Cambridge 1993, and F. R. Leavis, Two Cultures? The Significance of C. P. Snow, London 1962. |
Each source will have four hours of seminars. The seminars for each source will be held in the first half of Michaelmas Term 2007. Candidates are advised to attend seminars for four Primary Sources. These will normally be those sources associated with the three papers they are offering plus one other. Candidates will be required to write essays on two sources, which must be submitted to the Examiners on 31 January 2008. Each essay should be not more than 3,000 words in length (including footnotes, but excluding bibliography).