edhiphy (pronounced 'edify') is created as part of the ERC and NWO-funded project "
The underlying database was originally conceived by Eugenio Petrovich and designed with the help of Claudia Cristalli, Fons Dewulf, Ties van Gemert, Nina IJdens and Sander Verhaegh. edhiphy is currently developed by Gregor E. Bös and Wessel Dankers, who also developed this web application. Further technical support was provided by Paul van Geldrop. None of this would have been possible without the excellent support from Constellate and JSTOR's Data for Research service.
At present, edhiphy contains data extracted from twelve Anglo-American academic philosophy journals between 1890 and 1980. We have extracted more than one million mentions from over 20,000 articles. In the near future, we hope to expand the database by, among others, French philosophy journals, covering the same period. If you want to be notified about major releases, leave your email-address in the form below.
Please direct feedback, suggestions and questions at nomessages@mailG.E.Boes[at]gmail.comtilburguniversity.edu. If you want to rely on edhiphy for reproducible research, please get in touch.
We are using a number of methods to avoid errors. But especially for common names ('James', 'Moore') or names that also occur as nouns in other contexts ('White', 'Church'), there will be mistakes. We have some ideas to improve the recognition of these errors - stay tuned for updates! Meanwhile, wherever you see a button that looks like a flag (⚐), you can let us know if a particular mention seems wrong. These will not be retracted automatically, but knowing where we still have errors helps us to improve the extraction and disambiguation of mentions. If you see larger omissions or if you have systematic corrections or additions, please get in touch.
Aside from processing errors, a more serious limitation is the scope of what we consider. We only look at twelve journals, in a limited period, and a very limited geographical region. Books feature in edhiphy only as the target, not the source of mentions. We are planning to gradually extend edhiphy, but so far only to further journals and only where we find relatively complete data, so that we do not compromise on the quality of data. We also only integrate literature for which we have access to expertise.
We hope that edhiphy is useful for your research, teaching, exploration, or anything else. If you want to support us, first of all, tell others about edhiphy! Flagging errors or contacting us with feedback or ideas is a simple way to help. If you can provide additional metadata for one or several philosophers in edhiphy, please get in touch — we will make things easy and will acknowledge your contribution! If you want to use edhiphy for published work, please let us know, so we can make sure your results are reproducible. Finally, we are also glad to hear suggestions for improving the user experience or the technical implementation of edhiphy or this website.