Welcome to edhiphy

edhiphy offers enriched data for the history of philosophy. At its core, this database contains mentions of philosophers in journal articles. Mentions were the common way of referencing ideas and arguments from fellow philosophers before the advent of standardized citations. edhiphy collects these informal references and can be used to quantitatively study the history of philosophy. See the publications page for our paper about mention-analysis and its motivation, as well as some first applications. The How-To page explains how you can use it yourself. For more information about edhiphy and the people behind it, see the about page.

Or just try edhiphy yourself:

• Use the 'Explore' tab for different ways to get familiar with the contents of the database.
  • See the philosopher page for a list of all philosophers in edhiphy, or see a random example.
  • You can search the extracted mentions and see which articles connect philosophers.
  • Advanced users may also query the database via SQL.
• The 'Visualize' tab allows to summarize larger parts of the database as a co-mention network.
  • You can currently visualize periods as a co-mention network.
  • You can also visualize the network surrounding individual philosophers, such as Bertrand Russell, Susanne Langer or a random example.

edhiphy is created as part of the Exiled Empiricists project at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.