Blogs & web sites

  • Evolving thoughts
    John Wilkins in Australia, on evolution, philosophy of biology, and other things.
  • HPB etc.
    Rob Skipper's blog on the history and philosophy of population genetics.
  • ISHPSSB
    International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology.
  • James Griesemer
    Jim Griesemer & lab UC Davis; philosophy of biology and related topics.
  • Philosophy of Biology Cafe
    Matt Haber at Utah, and several others, run a discussion forum on philosophy of biology
  • Schneier on security
    Bruce Schneier, expert on security
  • Three-Toed Sloth
    Cosma Shalizi is in the statistics department at Carnegie Mellon.
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Reprints and Working Papers

Elihu M. Gerson. 2008. "Reach, bracket, and the limits of rationalized coordination: Some challenges for CSCW.” Pp. 193-220 in Resources, Co-evolution, and Artifacts: Theory in CSCW, ed. Mark S. Ackerman, Christine Halverson, Tomas Erickson, and Wendy A. Kellogg. New York: Springer-Verlag. Download PDF

Elihu M. Gerson. 2007. “Varieties of intersection: Specialties and collaboration networks”. Presented at the meetings of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Exeter, UK, July 2007. Download slides

Elihu M. Gerson. 2007. “The juncture of evolutionary and developmental biology.” Pp. 435-463 in From Embryology to Evo-Devo: A History of Developmental Evolution, ed. Manfred Laubichler and Jane Maienschein. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Download PDF

James R. Griesemer and Elihu M. Gerson. 2006. “Of mice and men and low unit cost.” Essay review of Making Mice: Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research, 1900-1955, by Karen A. Rader. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Science 37: 363-372. Download PDF

Elihu M Gerson. 2004. “The organization of reconciliation in distributed work.” Workshop on Distributed Collective Practices, CSCW 04. Chicago, New York: Association for Computing Machinery. Download PDF

James R. Griesemer and Elihu M. Gerson. 1993. “Collaboration in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.” Journal of the History of Biology 26: 185-204. Download PDF

Elihu M. Gerson and Susan Leigh Star. 1986. "Analyzing due process in the workplace". ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems 4: 257-270. Download PDF