In the last twenty years Franco Moretti’s ‘distant reading’ approach has provided a fresh understanding of literature and its historical development not by studying in detail a few particular texts (as in the so-called ‘close reading’), but rather by aggregating and analyzing large amounts of information.
The central role of data in this approach is not determined only by their quantity. It is also important to look for different kinds of data, not investigated before, drawn from a variety of sources. In this sense this approach may be regarded as a form of Data-Driven Research in the humanities.
The authors of this blog share the conviction that it is now time to apply Distant Reading and Data-Driven Research to the history of thought, and in particular to the history of philosophy, very broadly conceived.
This kind of methodological innovation can be of interest for scholars working on different historical periods (ancient, medieval, modern, contemporary) and from the perspective of different fields (history of philosophy, history of science, history of ideas and intellectual history, sociology of knowledge, and so forth).
The blog is intended as a way to raise attention on this approach, as an opportunity to communicate results and discuss tools and techniques of our research, and as a space for open and public peer-reviewing of our research work.
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DR2 Turin Group wrote a new post DR2 COLLOQUIUM in Turin – Lucia Pasini, “Distant Listening” – 9 February 2023 in the group
DR2 – Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy: on Humanities Commons 2 months, 1 week agoLOCANDINA-Lucia-Pasini-Distant-Listening-9-febbraio-2023Download
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DR2 Turin Group edited the post THIRD DR2 CONFERENCE (in Rome!) in the group
DR2 – Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy: on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago16-17 January 2023
Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sapienza Università di Roma
Villa Mirafiori, via Carlo Fea, 2 – Roma
Links for following through Webex:
1st session, https://l.cnr.it/dr2c3s12nd se […]
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DR2 Turin Group edited the post New course on “Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy” in Turin in the group
DR2 – Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy: on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoA new “Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy” course will be held at the University of Turin by the DR2 co-founder Paolo Tripodi. The course is intended both for Philosophy students belonging to the […]
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DR2 Turin Group edited the post Franco Moretti in Turin in the group
DR2 – Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy: on Humanities Commons 5 months, 1 week agoNew DR2 COLLOQUIUM!
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DR2 Turin Group wrote a new post Project PAWOS receives funding from the University of Siena in the group
DR2 – Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy: on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months agoThe research project PAWOS (Philosophy and/with/of Science) by Eugenio Petrovich, DR2 member, has been awarded the “MSCA Seal of Excellence @ UNISI” grant by the University of Siena. The project aims at […]
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DR2 Turin Group edited the post Mind and British idealism – a distant reading perspective in the group
DR2 – Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy: on Humanities Commons 1 year, 9 months agoby Nicolò Cambiaso and Stefano Romeo
When did British idealism end? When did it reach its peak and face its demise? It is rather difficult to answer such questions. Several dates might be put forth as representative of the end of British idealism, from 1903 to the 1940s.
In 1903 two important works by G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell…[Read more]
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DR2 Turin Group wrote a new post Data visualization – Enhancing the Digital Humanities Course Registry in the group
DR2 – Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy: on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months agoThe Digital Humanities Course Registry (CLARIN-ERIC, DARIAH-EU) is a platform providing a worldwide overview of Digital Humanities teaching activities which can be sorted by a variety of features (e.g. […]
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DR2 Turin Group edited the post Call for applications for Post-doc positions – Turin, Exeter, Amsterdam in the group
DR2 – Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy: on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months agoWe are glad to announce that the University of Exeter and the University of Turin are looking for three post-doc position. Details about the job profiles below:
1 Research Fellow @University of Turin.
The ESR will be part of the team of our member Mario Cedrini, contributing to the research “Has economics finally become an immature science? M…[Read more] -
DR2 Turin Group wrote a new post Digital Humanities 2021 Summer Schools in the group
DR2 – Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy: on Humanities Commons 1 year, 11 months agoWe forward information on available 2021 summer schools dealing with Digital Humanities in Leipzig, Leiden, Groeningen and Oxford. Happenings will mostly take place on-line and on-line participation will be […]
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DR2 Turin Group wrote a new post DS² conference YouTube channel in the group
DR2 – Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy: on Humanities Commons 2 years agoThe YouTube channel of the Center for Philosophy of Science and Societies (CEFISES) has published on-line videos of the talks given at the DS² (Digital Studies of Digital Science) 2021 conference […]
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DR2 Turin Group wrote a new post New Digital Humanities course for PhD students available in Turin in the group
DR2 – Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy: on Humanities Commons 2 years agoThe Digital Humanities course for PhD students has been established at the PhD School for Humanities (Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze Umanistiche), University of Turin.
The course is designed and hosted by the […]
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DR2 Turin Group edited the post Upcoming talk by Eugenio Petrovic @DS² 2021 conference in the group
DR2 – Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy: on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoWe are glad to announce an upcoming talk by Eugenio Petrovich at the DS² 2021 conference (Digital Studies of Digital Science) @UCLouvain. Here more details on the program.
The conference aims to connect two groups of scholars working on separate trends: the digitalizing of science’s products on one side, and the spread of digital methods on…[Read more]
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DR2 Turin Group edited the post Analytic and Continental Philosophy: playing around with quantitative methods in the group
DR2 – Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy: on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoby Pietro Lana
What can quantitative methods tell us about the differences between the Analytic and the Continental philosophical traditions? Attempts to define, characterize and distinguish the two have led to such a variety of positions that even the most cautious proposals have been put into question (Glock, 2008). The difficulties in…[Read more]
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DR2 Turin Group edited the post PostDoc Fellowship Opportunity in Ontology for Industry Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR at Trento (Italy) in the group
DR2 – Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy: on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoWe are pleased to forward information about a PostDoc Fellowship in Ontology in Trento.
Research will focus on the study of ontology for industry with the possibility to engage in both foundational ontology and the development of a domain ontology for a real industrial case. The research topics will be fixed depending on your interests. The…[Read more] -
DR2 Turin Group edited the post On-line workshop, February 17-19 – Sentiment analysis on multilingual 18th-century corpora in the group
DR2 – Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy: on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoWe give notice of the on-line workshop Sentiment Analysis in Literary studies organized by the Centre for Information Modelling of the University of Graz.
Sentiment analysis is a common task in literary studies, yet sitting outside the mainstream of analytic computational procedures applied to philosophical corpora. Critic facets of se…[Read more]
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DR2 Turin Group wrote a new post Call for tender: postdoctoral position – Quality open data production. Deadline 25/02/2021 in the group
DR2 – Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy: on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThe Institute for Cognition Sciences and Technologies (CNR) opens the selection for one postdoctoral position (informatics/engineering) in graphs design and development for management and representation of […]
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DR2 Turin Group wrote a new post Three postdoctoral positions at UvA- Research Priority Area Humane AI in the group
DR2 – Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy: on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThe University of Amsterdam’s interdisciplinary Research Priority Area Humane AI is looking for 3 postdoctoral researchers in the areas of law, social sciences and humanities. The overarching goal of the […]
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DR2 Turin Group wrote a new post Uncovering the social network of recent analytic philosophy – A talk by Eugenio Petrovich in the group
DR2 – Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy: on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoWe are glad to share the video of the talk given by DR2 member Eugenio Petrovich in the 4th Annual TiLPS History of Analytic Philosophy Workshop @ TiLPS (Tilburg Center for Moral Philosophy, Epistemology and […]
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DR2 Turin Group wrote a new post Happy new year! in the group
DR2 – Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy: on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoDR2 team wishes everybody a happy new year!
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DR2 Turin Group wrote a new post New DR2 member in the group
DR2 – Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy: on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoWe warmly welcome Pietro Lana, master student at the philosophy department here in Turin, as a new member of the DR2 group. Check him and other DR2 affiliates in our People section.
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