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A Quantitative Portrait of Analytic Philosophy : Looking Through the Margins / by Eugenio Petrovich.

Springer Nature - Springer Mathematics and Statistics eBooks 2024 English International Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Petrovich, Eugenio, author.
Series:
Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2199-0964
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Social sciences--Statistical methods.
Social sciences.
Digital humanities.
Philosophy--History.
Philosophy.
Methodology.
Statistics in Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Education, Behavorial Sciences, Public Policy.
Digital Humanities.
History of Philosophy as Method.
Local Subjects:
Statistics in Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Education, Behavorial Sciences, Public Policy.
Digital Humanities.
History of Philosophy as Method.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 284 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour maps
Edition:
1st ed. 2024.
Place of Publication:
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024.
Biography/History:
"Eugenio Petrovich, Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy."--page v.
Summary:
This book offers an unprecedented quantitative portrait of analytic philosophy focusing on two seemingly marginal features of philosophical texts: citations and acknowledgements in academic publications. Originating from a little network of philosophers based in Oxford, Cambridge, and Vienna, analytic philosophy has become during the Twentieth century a thriving philosophical community with thousands of members worldwide. Leveraging the most advanced techniques from bibliometrics, citations and acknowledgments are used in this book to shed light on both the epistemology and the sociology of this philosophical field, illuminating the intellectual trajectory of analytic philosophy as well as the social characteristics of the analytic community. Special attention is dedicated to the last forty years, providing insights into a phase of analytic philosophy which is still understudied by historians of philosophy. In the eight chapters of the book, readers will find not only numerous quantitative investigations and technical explanations, but also a robust theoretical framework and epistemological reflections on the strengths and limitations of quantitative methods for the study of philosophy. With its strong interdisciplinary appeal, this book will engage a wide range of scholars, including historians of philosophy seeking new methodologies, analytic philosophers interested in a new look at their discipline, and scholars in digital humanities, bibliometrics, and quantitative studies of science, who will find many innovative techniques for investigating disciplinary fields.
Contents:
On the margins of philosophy
Theoretical frameworks
The research object
Structure and dynamics of analytic philosophy
Knowledge accumulation in analytic philosophy
The social space of analytic philosophy
Socio-epistemic communities in analytic philosophy
Quantitative metaphilosophy.
Notes:
"Moremedia"--Page 1 of cover.
Includes bibliographic references.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
3-031-53200-7
OCLC:
1430658977

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