A new paper is now open for Oper Peer Review in our companion blog: Two Quantitative Researches in the History of Philosophy. Some uphazard methodological reflections, authored by Guido Bonino (Turin), Paolo Maffezioli (Barcelona), and Paolo Tripodi (Turin).
In this paper we are going to put forth some methodological reflections on two different investigations we have conducted in the context of the DR2 research group. Such investigations were our first serious attempts at applying distant reading techniques and more in general quantitative methods to the history of philosophy. A sketchy preliminary presentation of the two researches is in order as a basis for the methodological remarks.
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