Visualizing Genealogies of Philosophy
On: June 13, 2007
I remember feeling completely lost in my first-year philosophy course – the feeling never really goes away – and wanting some kind of map of the territory or overview . This tool maps philosophers’ influences, and while users can’t update the influences, the author suggests that could happen in the future. (Also neat, rolling over a name gives a short introduction.) A view from Foucault:
Very nice, however I couldn’t find out what the ‘influence’ is based on?
It slightly reminds me of this other tool WikiMindMap which brings a mindmap structure to Wikipedia articles. I would love to see this tool expanded to see relations between articles (eg a link from Foucault to Deleuze):
http://www.wikimindmap.org/viewmap.php?wiki=en.wikipedia.org&topic=Michel+Foucault
Thanks for the post.
I wrote more about how I defined influence at the “suggests” link above.
Some related Wikipedia visualizations (that pull live data):
Pathway
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