{"id":6931,"date":"2018-10-12T14:43:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T14:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6931"},"modified":"2018-10-12T14:44:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T14:44:24","slug":"the-structure-of-recent-philosophy-ii-%c2%b7-visualizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6931","title":{"rendered":"The structure of recent philosophy (II) \u00b7 Visualizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/homepage.univie.ac.at\/noichlm94\/posts\/structure-of-recent-philosophy-ii\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/plot2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this codebook we will investigate the macro-structure of philosophical literature. As a base for our investigation I have collected about fifty-thousand reco<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>St\u00e9fan sent me a link to this interesting post,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/homepage.univie.ac.at\/noichlm94\/posts\/structure-of-recent-philosophy-ii\/\">The structure of recent philosophy (II) \u00b7 Visualizations<\/a><\/em>. Maximilian Noichl has done a fascinating job using the Web of Science to develop a model of the field of Philosophy since the 1950s. In this post he describes his method and the resulting visualization of clusters (see above). In a later post (version III of the project) he gets a more nuanced visualization that seems more true to the breadth of what people do in philosophy. The version above is heavily weighted to anglo-american analytic philosophy while version III has more history of philosophy and continental philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/homepage.univie.ac.at\/noichlm94\/img\/struct_phil_iii\/full_struct.pdf\">final poster (PDF) for version III<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help wondering if his snowball approach doesn&#8217;t bias the results. What if one used full text of major journals?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this codebook we will investigate the macro-structure of philosophical literature. As a base for our investigation I have collected about fifty-thousand reco St\u00e9fan sent me a link to this interesting post,\u00a0The structure of recent philosophy (II) \u00b7 Visualizations. Maximilian Noichl has done a fascinating job using the Web of Science to develop a model &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6931\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The structure of recent philosophy (II) \u00b7 Visualizations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,21,18,16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-data","category-blogs-and-blogging-culture","category-philosophy-of-computing","category-text-analysis","category-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6933,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6931\/revisions\/6933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}