Blogging the history of science 11 Aug 20084 Oct 2017 A chance link to my blog has led me through an ego search to find Will Thomas’ most excellent Ether Wave Propaganda blog. Will is a historian of science post-doc, I think, and he has an engaging style. Coincidentally, John Lynch lists various links to history of science, including a number of bloggers (your host included). It looks like the beginnings of a Mexican wave of historians. I recommend Will’s post linked to at the start of this post as a discussion of the role and justification for doing history of science. Uncategorized
Uncategorized Last century’s best philosopher? 1 Mar 2009 Brian Leiter has asked who that was in the train of the New York Times declaring that it was Wittgenstein.So far, Russell is leading. Russell? My goodness, he was important but hardly the best – most read more than best, I suspect. Moore was better than Russell. As to the… Read More
Uncategorized Sterelny wins Nicod Prize 3 Sep 200818 Sep 2017 Sometimes it’s so cool to know smart people, so you can congratulate them when they win awards. Go Kimbo! Hat tip Leiter. Read More
Uncategorized Judging experiments 30 Dec 200718 Sep 2017 This is a field in which I am largely ignorant, so I will just report it and leave the commenters to interpret. Collider blog has a discussion of an idea reported by Charm &c. in a paper at arXiv by Bruce Knudsen, proposing that experiments should be assessed using Shannon… Read More
Interestingly (to me) I read the title of this post as referring to the History of blogging-about-science rather than blogging about the History of Science. It was not, in fact, until I read the last three words of the post that I realised and went back to re-read the post from the beginning. I wonder why I read it that way even though I think that History of Science is The Most Awesomest Thing Evar… hmm
Interestingly (to me) I read the title of this post as referring to the History of blogging-about-science rather than blogging about the History of Science. It was not, in fact, until I read the last three words of the post that I realised and went back to re-read the post from the beginning. I wonder why I read it that way even though I think that History of Science is The Most Awesomest Thing Evar… hmm
Oh and your link to me doesn’t go to the post: http://scienceblogs.com/strangerfruit/2008/08/the_big_list_of_history_of_sci.php
Oh and your link to me doesn’t go to the post: http://scienceblogs.com/strangerfruit/2008/08/the_big_list_of_history_of_sci.php
Oh and your link to me doesn’t go to the post: http://scienceblogs.com/strangerfruit/2008/08/the_big_list_of_history_of_sci.php
ephant – I read it that way too. If someone were to write a history of science blogging, The Most Awesomest Thing Evar would be the perfect title.
ephant – I read it that way too. If someone were to write a history of science blogging, The Most Awesomest Thing Evar would be the perfect title.
ephant – I read it that way too. If someone were to write a history of science blogging, The Most Awesomest Thing Evar would be the perfect title.
ephant – I read it that way too. If someone were to write a history of science blogging, The Most Awesomest Thing Evar would be the perfect title.