in personal research

An experiment in communal editing: Finding the history & philosophy of science.

After my last post about co-citation analysis, the author of one of the papers I was responding to, K. Brad Wray, generously commented and suggested I write up and publish the results and send them off to Erkenntnis, which is the same journal he published his results. That sounded like a great idea, so I am.

Because so many good ideas have come from comments on this blog, I’d like to try opening my first draft to communal commenting. For those who aren’t familiar with google docs (anyone? Bueller?), you can comment by selecting test and either hitting ctrl-alt-m, or going to the insert-> menu and clicking ‘Comment’.

The paper is about the relationship between history of science and philosophy of science, and draws both from the blog post and from this page with additional visualizations. There is also an appendix (pdf, sorry) with details of data collection and some more interesting results for the HPS buffs. If you like history of science, philosophy of science, or citation analysis, I’d love to see your comments! If you have any general comments that don’t refer to a specific part of the text, just post them in the blog comments below.

This is a bit longer form than the usual blog, so who knows if it will inspire much interaction, but it’s worth a shot. Anyone who is signed in so I can see their name will get credit in the acknowledgements.

Finding the History and Philosophy of Science (earlier draft)  ← draft 1, thanks for your comments.

Finding the History and Philosophy of Science (current draft) ← comment here!

 

Write a Comment

Comment