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Improving scientific mentoring: a new library of resources

Welcome to the history and philosophy of science (HPS) pathway to improving scientific mentoring. 

The goal of this project is to encourage scholars to be more HPS-minded in their mentoring relationships as they train the next generation of innovative scientists.

This site is the start of a library of resources for faculty to use in facilitating and inspiring creative implementation of HPS in building mentoring habits and structuring mentoring practices.

Mentors and mentees must think explicitly about and experiment with different options of what works and what does not work in different contexts and for different aims and backgrounds.

This project is about encouraging the adaptation of HPS within mentoring activities to the needs of the scientific audience.

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Graduate student training

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Postdoctoral mentoring

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APA Job-Market Mentoring Program The APA Job-Market Mentoring Program, run by the APA Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement, pairs philosophers going on the academic job market with mentors who have recent... read more

Definitional frustrations

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Conceptual analysis

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Defining Species: A Sourcebook from Antiquity to Today Wilkins, J.S. 2009. Defining Species: A Sourcebook from Antiquity to Today. New York: Peter Lang.

Definitional frustrations

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How biologists conceptualize genes: an empirical study Stotz, K., P.E. Griffiths, and R. Knight. 2004. How biologists conceptualize genes: an empirical study. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 35(4):647-673.

Definitional frustrations

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The Gene: From Genetics to Postgenomics Rheinberger, H.-J. and S. Müller-Wille. 2017. The Gene: From Genetics to Postgenomics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Definitional frustrations

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Getting clear about the F-word in genomics Linquist, S., W.F. Doolittle and A.F. Palazzo. 2020. Getting clear about the F-word in genomics. PLoS Genetics 16(4):e1008702.
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