Category Archives: History of philosophy

THIRD DR2 CONFERENCE (in Rome!)

Posted on January 12, 2023 by DR2 Turin Group

16-17 January 2023 Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sapienza Università di Roma Villa Mirafiori, via Carlo Fea, 2 – Roma Links for following through Webex: 16 January, 15:00-19:00 Session 1. Quantitative History of Philosophy: Methodological Peculiarities  15:00 Enrico Pasini (Torino, Roma), Introduction … Continue reading →

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New course on “Distant Reading in the History of Philosophy” in Turin

Posted on November 4, 2022 by DR2 Turin Group

A 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 Philosophy International Curriculum and for … Continue reading →

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Mind and British idealism – a distant reading perspective

Posted on June 14, 2021 by DR2 Turin Group

by 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 … Continue reading →

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Analytic and Continental Philosophy: playing around with quantitative methods

Posted on December 14, 2020 by DR2 Turin Group

by 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 … Continue reading →

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Analytic philosophy and the later Wittgensteinian Tradition

Posted on February 24, 2020 by DR2 Turin Group

Paolo Tripodi’s book Analytic Philosophy and the Later Wittgensteinian Tradition has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan in the History of Analytic Philosophy series edited by Mike Beaney. Here is the cover:   And here the back cover: This book aims … Continue reading →

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Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas

Posted on February 10, 2020 by DR2 Turin Group

The following papers, delivered at the first DR2 Conference (Turin 2017) and then  submitted to Open Peer Review, have now been accepted by the  Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas and will appear on the next issue of the journal: Eugenio Petrovich … Continue reading →

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Arianna Betti teaching in Turin in 2020

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Marco Viola

We are pleased to announce that prof. Arianna Betti (University of Amsterdam) will be teaching a course at the University of Turin during the second semester of the Academic Year 2019/2020. More information below.    

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A short and informal replication of Petrovich and Buonomo 2018

Posted on November 4, 2019 by Marco Viola

We receive and gladly publish this post from Maximilian Noichl, a MA student at the University of Vienna (check his website and his recent publication). I recently came across a very interesting study by Eugenio Petrovich and Valerio Buonomo (2018), … Continue reading →

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A quantitative history of “Philosophy of Science”

Posted on September 23, 2019 by Marco Viola

Three reseachers from the University of Québec, Montréal – Christophe Malaterre, Jean-François Chartier, and Davide Pulizzotto (the latter also being an affiliate member of DR2 group) have recently published an intriguing paper entitled What Is This Thing Called Philosophy of Science? … Continue reading →

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DR2 Conference: a not too late report

Posted on June 23, 2017 by DR2 Turin Group

As is well known, in the last twenty years Franco Moretti’s distant reading approach has provided a fresh under­standing of literature and its historical development. The first DR2 Conference, held at the University of Turin (Italy) on January 16-18 and organized by Guido … Continue reading →

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