Whewell’s Ghost, a HPS blog

In conjunction with John Lynch and Rebekah Higgit, a new blog has been launched for history and philosophy of science posts, entitled Whewell’s Ghost. Rebekah and I have kicked it off with a couple of posts.

Anyone may contribute to this, on the history and philosophy of any aspect of science, including medicine, physics or even (shudder) math. All you have to do is ask to be made a contributor. You can post the entire post there, or just the opening section with a link to you own blog, or double post. It’s a clearing house so that people can find good posts on HPS.

The only thing I would ask is that a certain degree of scholarship is maintained. Don’t post things you aren’t up on, because those commenters, they’re vicious! I know from bitter experience…