Why this post? Dutch-based academics post red squares today to express their continuing disagreement
with the planned budget cuts on research and education in The Netherlands.

Figure ⬇️ Government investment per student in the Netherlands, 2000-2024. h/t @universiteitennl.bsky.social

#WOinActie #doehetniet

Happening now: Thousands of Dutch students and academics protesting the budget cuts on higher education and research in The Netherlands. Our government is cutting one billion euros, roughly equivalent to a large university.

Sign the petition! woinactie.blogspot.com/2024/11/steu... #woinactie

Read more about edhiphy (and its limits) on @dailynous.com: 



This paper describes its technical implementation: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This paper uses edhiphy to investigate the U.S reception of logical empiricism: tinyurl.com/3mu97yk4

And try it yourself here: edhiphy.org

(11/11)

...and it can be used to analyze the profiles of different departments of philosophy in different periods. Here ⬇️ are the most-mentioned philosophers by philosophers affiliated with Columbia, Princeton and UC Berkeley in the 1950s (9/11)

edhiphy can be used to estimate the relative 'popularity' of different logical empiricists in U.S. philosophy (and to trace this over time)...

(article proportion = percentage of articles that mentions a philosopher at least once) (8/11)

edhiphy can also be used to create co-mention networks This network maps U.S. philosophy in the 1950s. Nodes represent philosophers; node sizes reflect mention numbers

The closer two nodes are, the more frequently the philosophers are mentioned in the same papers, relatively speaking (7/11)

By clicking the name of a philosopher you can explore mentions to and from that philosopher, including the passages in which their mentions occur and a graph tracking the number by year.

Here ⬇️ are screenshots of Mary Whiton Calkins' page (the most mentioned female philosopher of the 1910s) (6/11)

Edhiphy can be used to find articles mentioning specific (combinations of) philosophers, and to visualize mention structures in interactive maps. This table ⬇️ lists the most-mentioned philosophers of the 1910s. The answer to the quiz question is Henri Bergson. (5/11)

Standard bibliometric tools analyze papers through citations. Philosophers, however, only started using citations from the 1970s onwards. They referenced colleagues but only through mentioning them by name. This paper ⬇️, for example, cites few papers but mentions dozens of philosophers. (4/11)

edhiphy.org can help answer such questions. It is an online platform to find and analyze mentions to and from philosophers. It contains about 1.100.000 mentions extracted from over 20.000 articles and can be used to examine philosophical discourse in various periods and journals (3/11)

Let's start with a quiz question 📝

Who was the most mentioned philosopher in English-language philosophy journals in the 1910s?



Hint: It was not a British or an American philosopher 😱




(2/11)

Saturday morning television in 1967:
- 7.30: Prof. Kai Nielsen analyzes logical positivism
- 8.00: Captian Kangaroo - Children
- 9.00: Mighty Heroes - Cartoons