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, 2008-09, are as follows:
| Paper 1 | [Pseudo-Aristotle] Problems, in The Complete Works of Aristotle, ed. J. Barnes (Princeton, 1984), Vol. 2: 1319-1527. |
| Paper 2 | Sir James Pringle, Six discourses delivered on the occasion of six annual assignments of Sir Godfrey Copley's Medal (1783). |
| Paper 3 | Charles Darwin's Letters: A Selection, 1825-1859; http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/. |
| Paper 4 | Selections from Bas van Fraassen (1980) The Scientific Image, Oxford: Clarendon Press. |
| Paper 5 | Bloor, D. (1982) 'Durkheim and Mauss Revisited: Classification and the Sociology of Knowledge', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 13(4): 267-297. |
| Paper 6 | Four Short Papers by Freud: 'Negation'; 'A note upon the 'Mystic Writing-Pad''; 'Fetishism'; 'Two lies told by children'. |
| Paper 7 | Helkiah Crooke, Microcosmographia (1615), Book 4. |
| Paper 8 | The Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration (HMSO, 1904), Vol. 1. |
| 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 2008. 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 2009. Each essay should be not more than 3,000 words in length (including footnotes, but excluding bibliography).