Getting 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...
Read moreGreenberg, Danto, Dickie, Chomsky, Cartwright, Nussbaum Added; Anaximander, Kant, James, Anscombe, Rawls, and Others Updated
Due to a series of unfortunate events, some related to COVID, I worked slower than usual and it took nearly 10 months to arrive at an amount of updates worthy of a blog post. Here’s what I’ve done since July 2020: Clement Greenberg, Arthur Danto, George Dickie, Noam Chomsky, Nancy Cartwright, and Martha Nussbaum are added. William James and Elizabeth...
Read moreAristippus, Croce, Bell, Benjamin, Langer, Beardsley, Weitz, Sibley Added; Spinoza, Hume, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Putnam, and Others Updated
Thanks to the combination of summer and COVID quarantine, I’ve done more work than usual: Aristippus, Benedetto Croce, Clive Bell, Walter Benjamin, Suzanne Langer, Monroe Beardsley, Morris Weitz, and Frank Sibley are added. Benedict Spinoza and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel got substantive revisions with a lot of new/edited sentences (12 and 20 respectively). Sentences are added/edited for Plato, Aristotle...
Read moreMayr, Goodman, Althusser, Lewontin, Hull Added; Aristotle, Hume, Bergson, and Others Updated
Here is what I’ve done since the last update: Ernst Mayr, Nelson Goodman, Louis Althusser, Richard Lewontin, and David Hull are added. Sentences are added/edited for Aristotle (2), David Hume, Henri Bergson, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, Richard Dawkins (2), and Daniel Dennett. Dozens of new connections are drawn. As I said in the previous post, I took a short...
Read moreSmart, Hirsch, Parfit, Hofstadter Added; Locke, Bentham, Carnap, Mackie, and Others Updated
Here is what I’ve done since the last update (when we were still able to go outside without masks and gloves): John Jamieson Carswell Smart, Eli Hirsch, Derek Parfit, and Douglas Hofstadter are added. John Mackie got a substantive revision with 15 new sentences. Sentences are added/edited for Aristotle, Epicurus, Saint Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, John Locke...
Read moreProtagoras, Tarski, Thomson, Churchlands, Clark Added; Plato, Descartes, Lewis, and Others Updated
Here is what I’ve done since the last update: Protagoras, Alfred Tarski, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Paul & Patricia Churchland, and Andy Clark are added. Sentences are added/edited for Plato (4), René Descartes (2), David Hume, Gottlob Frege, Wilfred Sellars, Donald Davidson, John Searle, Thomas Nagel, Saul Kripke, David Lewis (2), Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers. Dozens of new connections are...
Read moreEubulides, Paley, Brentano, Bradley, Santayana, McTaggart Added; Aristotle, Mill, Frege, Russell, and Others Updated
Here is what I’ve done since the last update: Eubulides, William Paley, Franz Brentano, Francis Herbert Bradley, George Santayana, and John Ellis McTaggart are added. Bertrand Russell got a substantive revision with 18 new sentences. New sentences are added for Zeno of Elea, Aristotle (2), Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, John Stuart Mill (3), Gottlob Frege (2), Edmund...
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