Welcome to Visualizing Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Visualizing SEP is an interactive data visualization for exploring the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, one of the Web's foremost resources on philosophy. There have been several beautiful visualizations of the SEP before, but there has not been a single application that combines the beauty, ease, and power of exploring the SEP in the way this application does.

This application is a passion project. It is a tribute to the SEP authors and editors who have developed such an excellent resource. I am not a professional philosopher myself, but I am a developer and engineer, and I wanted to make my own small contribution to the SEP community by building a tool to explore and navigate the SEP in ways that weren't possible before.

Domain Taxonomy

The domain taxonomy used for grouping articles is not derived from the SEP itself. I adapted it from the taxonomy developed at the Indiana University Philosophy Ontology Project (InPhO). Using a combination of text search, topic modeling, and old-fashioned hard-coding, I then tagged all the articles with specific domain references.

Every article was tagged with at least one domain, its primary domain, which was the domain it was considered best grouped with. Most articles were tagged with other domain references as well. In this way, an article can appear within multiple domain graphs. I tried to be over-inclusive in the tagging process to provide enhanced opportunities for exploring related information. Thus, the domain groupings function more like language games with loosely-fit boundaries between associated articles, not necessarily rigid determinations with bright-line differences between them. Again, I'm not a professional philosopher, so if I've mistagged a piece, I'm happy to update it. Please email me to let me know if this is the case.

Every domain was assigned a specific color reference, and all article nodes and titles were colored according to their primary domain designation.

Please Note: Visualizing SEP is not affiliated with the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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