Our project on the digital history of science has a new website: DigitalHistoryofScience.org. Currently, it only contains the app on the bibliometric history of specialties in economics. Other apps are under development. Read more
The Chair is recruiting. Deadline for application is June 1st 2016. Please see the French version of the website for details. Read more
François receives a two-year research grant for his project Bibliometric History of the Cognitive Structure of the Social Sciences. It is a follow-up of the project on the history of economics (article, web app). Team: Coresearcher: Yves Gingras Collaborators: Gilles Caporossi et Roger Backhouse The Chair will soon recruit research assistants on this project! Read more
Two short texts based on Fontan, Claveau and Dietsch (2016), Central Banking and Inequalities: Taking Off the Blinders, Politics, Philosophy & Economics, are now online! In English: Dietsch, Fontan and Claveau, Central Banking and Inequalities -- Taking Off the Blinders, CEP blog, 16 June 2016. In French: Fontan, Banques centrales et inégalités économiques, La Vie […] Read more
The Chair wishes a warm welcome to its new research assistants coming from different fields of the social sciences and humanities. Guillaume Bolduc, master's student in Education, will be working on how the teaching of critical thinking can be improved through web tools. Cédrik Cormier, master's student in Philosophy at Université de Sherbrooke, will be working on […] Read more
Microfiches reveals a first card of the forthcoming collection on economic concepts. Texts: François Claveau, Pierre-Olivier Tremblay and Peter Dietsch. Illustration: Pascaline Lefebvre. Every Wednesday, it's Mercrofiches on Facebook! Read more
The Chair is recruiting. Deadline for application is June 1st 2016. Please see the French version of the website for details. Read more
François receives a three-year research grant for his project Justification by Evidence Amalgamation in the Social Sciences: Reliability Conditions. Read more
Gilles Beauchamp and Jean-François Dubé, two student members of the Chair, are awarded Masters scholarships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Congratulations! Read more
