Digital Scholarship Guide: Philosophy
Essential Skills and Tools
Data Visualization
If you're interested in comparing sources through time, space, doctrine, etc., you're going to amass a huge list of text. Before you can actually analyze anything, you need to learn how to effectively organize it. Learn how to effectively store these in a spreadsheet and how you can format your entries to support future analyses.
There are pre-existing tools that allow you to compare concepts, scholars, and works in philosophy. None of these tools can operate without a well-designed data framework -- that's where the spreadsheet comes in! Check out InPho.
Text Analysis
- Unpack the impact of word choices. Use analytical tools to measure the occurrence of key words and phrases, as well as authors’ tone. The guides and tutorials cover a wide array of options, most of which can interpret non-English languages (e.g. Voyant can handle ancient Latin). Lean into your expertise and test it out.
- Address shifts in scholarly conversations. JSTOR and Scopus have embedded visualization tools and you can use them to model what other scholars are publishing about over time. Consider a comparative analysis between the two, and examine how JSTOR’s Humanities and Social Sciences-focused content different from SCOPUS, which will include topics like Natural Language Processing and language cognition.
Digital Philosophy Projects at Brandeis and Beyond
Philosophy [in:of:for:and] Digital Knowledge Infrastructures This digital scholarship workshop series highlights different projects and methodologies by Philosophy professionals.
Project Vox An online space for sharing and disseminating digital teaching in Philosophy.
Teach Philosophy 101 A digital toolkit for individuals teaching introductory Philosophy courses at the undergraduate level.
PLATO Features resources for teaching philosophy in k-12 settings.
Digital Philosophers at Brandeis
Are you a digital scholar and part of Brandeis’ Philosophy community? Reach out to Dr. Natalie Susmann and have your work showcased here.
Digital Philosophy Publications
This Zotero library is regularly updated with publications discussing digital scholarship’s impact on Philosophy.
Many thanks to Brandeis PhD student Sonja Kleper for contributing to this page. This page was last updated on August 20, 2024. If you would like to contribute, please contact Dr. Natalie Susmann.