Missing Voices in the History of Philosophy

Project Vox Story+ 2022 Team:
Junyi Tao, Karen Nielsen, Kelsey Brod, and Emilie Menzel
Project Vox Directors: Andrew Janiak and Liz Milewicz

Project Vox aims to highlight philosophical works from marginalized individuals traditionally excluded from the philosophical canon.

Update! New visualizations of philosophers and their networks featured by Project Vox

We are updating a series of blogs about this project on Project Vox website: Blog #1
The video below explains what we have found through this research and how the WikiNet visualization works. It is also our presentation at Story+ Research Symposium 2022. [YouTube Link] [Slides]
♦ Click here to access Wiki InfluNet

♦ Information
- philosopher list: link
- women philosopher list: link

Other Interactive visualizations

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♦ (Academic/educational) Gender Composition To introduce and appreciate the intelligence of women philosophers and their contributions to philosophy.
♦ (Social) Philosopher Community on Social Media To demonstrate the gender ratio of faculty members in philosophy programs.
♦ (Conceptual) Intellectual Universe To summarize and compare today's women and men philosophers' activity and popularity on Twitter.

References

Inspiration and Resources

• Highlight marginalized women philosophers - Project Vox
• Philosophy and art visualization: Daily Nous visualization collection
• Many of Maximilian Noichl's visualizations

Data

• Philosophers dictionary and influence: Wikipedia/DBpedia
• Women philosophers dictionary: List of women philosophers - Wikipedia
• Philosopher on Twitter:
  Kelly Truelove. (2022). Philosophers on Twitter. Retrieved May 09, 2022, from [https://truesciphi.org/phi.html](https://truesciphi.org/phi.html)
• Women philosophers dictionary, keywords, and concepts:
  Hagengruber and Waithe. (n.d.). The Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers. Retrieved May 09, 2022, from [https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/ecc/#hwps](https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/ecc/#hwps)
• Women faculty in Philosophy:
  Peterson and Hustoft. (2021). Second Wave Survey of Women’s Representation in U.S. Philosophy Graduate Programs. Retrieved May 07, 2022, from https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IJZW8Y
• Gregory R. Peterson and Zayna Hustoft. 2020. Methodology for Second Wave Survey of Women’s Representation in U.S. Philosophy Graduate Programs.
• Philosophy topics and articles: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Philosophy taxonomy: The Internet Philosophy Ontology (InPhO) project

Literature Review

• D'Ignazio, Catherine, and Lauren F. Klein. 2020. Data feminism. website
• Drucker, Johanna, “Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display,” Digital Humanities Quarterly, 5.1 (2011). http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/1/000091/000091.html.
• Lavin, Matthew, “Why Digital Humanists Should Emphasize Situated Data over Capta,” Digital Humanities Quarterly, 15.2 (2021). http://digitalhumanities.org:8081/dhq/vol/15/2/000556/000556.html
• Guido Bonino, Paolo Maffezioli and Paolo Tripodi, “Two Quantitative Researches in the History of Philosophy”, Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas [Online], 16 | 2019, Online since 01 March 2020, connection on 07 May 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/jihi/324
• Witt, Charlotte and Lisa Shapiro, "Feminist History of Philosophy", *The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy* (Summer 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL =

Code (See License)

• Force-direct graph and timeline layout: theschoolofathens
• StarmapObservableHQ @mbostock
• Packages used to build visualization: d3.js, materialize, plotly
• Packages used to extract, preprocess, and compute data (may not be exhaustive): json, pandas, networkx

Images

Background image source: unsplash @Eilis Garvey