Category Archives: Administrative

WG on Fb

Posted on July 8, 2011 by

Whewell’s Ghost is now on Facebook! If you are a reader, feel free to “like” our page. Update: And we’re on Twitter!

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Congratulations!

Posted on January 7, 2011 by

Congratulations to our very own Thony Christie for winning the “Best Individual Blog” Award at the 2010 Cliopatras. The awards were announced last night at the AHA Meeting. Thony’s blog is – if you don’t already know - Renaissance Mathematicus.

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Links series

Posted on September 23, 2010 by

At my blog Evolving Thoughts, I do links posts about twice a week (all with titles of 1980s movies). They often have HPS material. You can subscribe to them here.

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Women in science

Posted on September 14, 2010 by

Notice the incredible lack of XX karyotypes in the above header image? Me too. I want to find a nice historical shot of people doing science en masse, but I can’t find any with women in it before the 1990s. … Continue reading →

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Hello world!

Posted on September 1, 2010 by

This is a group blog for collecting blog posts on the history and philosophy of science, and for posting new ones too. It is named after William Whewell (pronounced “hew-ell”), whose works History of the Inductive Sciences and Philosophy of … Continue reading →

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