Machiavelli and Singer Added; Quine, Foot, and Nagel Updated
Here is a list of what I did since the last update in November: Niccolò Machiavelli and Peter Singer are added. Lots of new sentences are added for Willard Van Orman Quine (8), Philippa Foot (13), and Thomas Nagel (5). These were more extensive updates compared to the regular sentence additions mentioned in the previous update posts: I focused...
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 statements are added to Aristotle, Spinoza, Leibniz, Bentham, Mill, Rawls, and Nozick. Dozens of new connections are drawn. Small design...
Read moreFreud, Bataille, Adorno, Arendt, Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Other News
Following the last update, our project has received great attention over the past few weeks, with tweets by Daniel Dennett, Oxford Philosophy, Sean Carroll, and features by Open Culture, Daily Nous, Magnet, among others. Here are the changes in content since the last update: Sigmund Freud, Georges Bataille, Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Jean-François Lyotard, and Jean Baudrillard made their...
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 statements 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 moreNew Stuff Coming Soon
Right now I’m halfway through Thomas Baldwin’s Contemporary Philosophy: Philosophy in English Since 1945, working on many new names to be added to the visualization. We are also working with Hüseyin Kuşçu on very useful interface upgrades. It looks like I’ll be announcing a big update before September; you may witness some work-in-progress meanwhile.
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...
Read moreFirst Version Published
First version published with these philosophers: Thales Anaximander Anaximenes Pythagoras Xenophanes Heraclitus Parmenides Empedocles Leucippus & Democritus Zeno of Elea Socrates Plato Aristotle Diogenes Pyrrho Epicurus Stoics (Zeno of Citium et al.) Timon of Phlius Plotinus Saint Augustine John Scotus Erigena Saint Anselm Thomas Aquinas William of Ockham Francis Bacon Thomas Hobbes René Descartes Benedict Spinoza John Locke Gottfried...
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