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 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 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 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 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...
Read moreConway, Hutcheson, Saussure, Lacan, Irigaray, Butler, Chalmers
Happy World Philosophy Day! Here are the latest additions: Anne Conway, Francis Hutcheson, Ferdinand de Saussure, Jacques Lacan, Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler, and David Chalmers are added. (You can use the alphabetical Index in the Menu to jump to these names.) New sentences are added to Aristotle, Spinoza, Leibniz, Bentham, Mill, Rawls, and Nozick. Dozens of new connections are drawn. Small design...
Read more48 New Philosophers and 5 New Interface Features
I’m proud to announce a huge upgrade, both in content and in interaction design. I’ve been reading the whole summer to add 48 new philosophers and 317 new sentences to the mix (mostly from Thomas Baldwin’s Contemporary Philosophy: Philosophy in English Since 1945) nearly doubling the amount of content, and Hüseyin Kuşçu has implemented many functions we had envisaged...
Read moreInteraction Started
Hüseyin Kuşçu has joined the team to develop the interactive version that will allow a much more efficient browsing experience on screen. The first function we added is clicking a sentence to display the other sentences connected to it and make everything else disappear. We’ll be adding more functions like this, a search bar, and a dropdown filter based...
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