New Force-Directed Graph with Philosophers as Nodes
It’s been over 10 years since I started working on this research and visualization project which has become my main occupation outside work. Both its content and its interface have been developing with continuous upgrades over the years. Although I’m more than happy with its current state in terms of information visualization and I’ll continue to work on...
Read moreZeno of Citium, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Skinner, Plantinga, Block, Strawson, and Oppy Added; Hume, Rousseau, Brentano, Husserl, Wittgenstein, and Others Updated
2024 continues to be productive on the editorial side. Here’s what I’ve done since March: I’ve added Zeno of Citium, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, Alvin Plantinga, Ned Block, Galen Strawson, and Graham Oppy. I’ve made substantive revisions with lots of new/edited sentences for David Hume (13), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (23), and Franz Brentano (7). I’ve added/edited sentences for...
Read morePoincaré, Eddington, Gombrich, Laudan, Van Fraassen, Worrall, Ladyman Added; Anselm, Duhem, Grice, Williams, Kripke, Lewis, Boyd, and Others Updated
It’s been a very productive period since my last summary post in December; I’ve done so much work in two months that I decided to publish the first content update post of 2024 before continuing. In summary: I’ve added Henri Poincaré, Arthur Eddington, Ernst Gombrich, Larry Laudan, Bas van Fraassen, John Worrall, and James Ladyman. I’ve made substantive revisions...
Read more‘Basics’ Filter for the Uninitiated
In recent years, I’ve become aware of the fact that my continuous efforts to create more and more inclusive summaries for each thinker have resulted in large collections of sentences that could look intimidating to the uninitiated. Empathizing with people who are beginning to grow interest in the history of philosophy, I came up with the idea (during a...
Read moreReid, Barthes, Habermas, Varela Added; Leibniz, Kant, Ramsey, Sartre, Beauvoir, Foot, Clark, and Others Updated
End of year is a good time for reports, so here is a belated one about the content changes I’ve made since May 2022: I added Thomas Reid, Roland Barthes, Jürgen Habermas, and Francisco Varela. I made substantive revisions with lots of new/edited sentences for Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (13), Immanuel Kant (14), Frank Ramsey (12), Jean-Paul Sartre (11), Simone de...
Read moreDynamic URLs
I’ve created a function that modifies the URL according to your clicks on names, sentences, or the Show Further Connections button, and another one that reads the custom URL to draw what it specifies when you open/refresh it. This means that each focused network you generate with your clicks has its own functional URL now, allowing major improvements in...
Read moreGetting Help From AI to Tag Sentences
I’ve recently announced a new feature I call “tags” – keywords, shown on the left of the sentences, including names of specific arguments, theories, -isms, etc. which don’t appear in the sentence itself. Tagging, I had said, was an ongoing manual process I’d been carrying out for some time. I had tagged 525 sentences myself by going through the...
Read moreInterface & Content Upgrade: Tags, Improved Search, Dark Mode, and More
I’m happy to announce another batch of interface upgrades after a year, this time accompanied by the introduction of a new content type as well, which amounts to another substantial improvement for the information architecture and the user experience of this project. I’ll start with the most important and exciting bit: sentence tags. This is the new type of...
Read moreStebbing, Gramsci, Campbell, Geach, Lakatos Added; Ockham, Mill, Marx, Ayer, Fodor, and Others Updated
I’ve done a lot of work (in addition to the big interface upgrade) since May 2021 but I don’t know why I’ve waited this long to put together a blog post about it: I added Susan Stebbing, Antonio Gramsci, Donald Campbell, Peter Geach, and Imre Lakatos. I made substantive revisions with lots of new/edited sentences for William of Ockham...
Read moreBig Upgrade: Portraits, Name-Clicking, New Filters, Mobile Version, and More
This is an important moment and an important post for me. It’s not about the new philosophers and sentences I was able to add, as usual, but about the long-pending interface features and improvements that I was able to implement in the past few weeks. This is a substantial upgrade for the user experience and the information visualization capabilities...
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