Guest Speaker Event with Professor Hasok Chang (University of Cambridge)

Hasok Chang is the Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He was born and raised in South Korea, and received his higher education in the United States, starting with two years at Northfield Mount Hermon School. After his undergraduate degree at Caltech, which focused on theoretical physics, he switched fields and obtained his Ph.D. in philosophy at Stanford University, after which he taught at the University College London before moving to Cambridge. He is the author of (2004),  (2012), and (2022). In Korea he is best known for a series of public lectures that was broadcast on EBS-TV called “Science Meets Philosophy” (과학, 철학을 만나다).Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific ProgressIs Water H2O? Evidence, Realism and PluralismRealism for Realistic People: A New Pragmatist Philosophy of Science

The Historia Project is a national student-run 501(c)(3) that aims to introduce history of science to the youth. In…