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15SolarView: Low Distortion Radial Embeddings with a FocusIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 25 (10): 2969-2982. 2019.We propose a novel type of low distortion radial embedding which focuses on one specific entity and its closest neighbors. Our embedding preserves near-exact distances to the focus entity and aims to minimize distortion between the other entities. We present an interactive exploration tool SolarView which places the focus entity at the center of a "solar system" and embeds its neighbors guided by concentric circles. SolarView provides an implementation of our novel embedding and several state-of…Read more
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59History of Philosophy in Ones and ZerosIn Eugen Fischer & Mark Curtis (eds.), Methodological Advances in Experimental Philosophy, Bloomsbury Press. pp. 295-332. 2019.How can we best reconstruct the origin of a notion, its development, and possible spread to multiple fields? We present a pilot study on the spread of the notion of conceptual scheme. Though the notion is philosophically important, its origin, development, and spread are unclear. Several purely qualitative and competing historical hypotheses have been offered, which rely on disconnected disciplinary traditions, and have never been tested all at once in a single comprehensive investigation fittin…Read more
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30Against FactsThe MIT Press. 2015.An argument that the major metaphysical theories of facts give us no good reason to accept facts in our catalog of the world. In this book Arianna Betti argues that we have no good reason to accept facts in our catalog of the world, at least as they are described by the two major metaphysical theories of facts. She claims that neither of these theories is tenable—neither the theory according to which facts are special structured building blocks of reality nor the theory according to which facts …Read more
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GlamMap: visualizing library metadata.Proceedings of VALA 2014. 2014.Libraries provide access to large amounts of library metadata. Unfortunately, many libraries only offer textual interfaces for searching and browsing their holdings. Visualizations provide simpler, faster, and more efficient ways to navigate, search and study large quantities of metadata. This paper presents GlamMap, a visualization tool that displays library metadata on an interactive, computer-generated geographic map. We provide detailed discussion of how GlamMap benefits the work of libraria…Read more
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14GlamMapping Trove.Proceedings of VALA 2016. 2016.This paper presents the current state of development of GlamMap, a visualisation tool that displays library metadata on an interactive, computer-generated geographic map. The focus in the paper is on the most crucial improvement achieved in the development of the tool: GlamMapping Trove. The visualisation of Trove’s sixtymillion book records is possible thanks to an improved database structure, more efficient data retrieval, and more scalable visualisation algorithms. The paper analyses problems…Read more
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20GlamMap: geovisualization for e-humanities2016 Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities. 2016.This paper presents GlamMap, a visualization tool for large, multi-variate georeferenced humanities data sets. Our approach visualizes the data as glyphs on a zoomable geographic map, and performs clustering and data aggregation at each zoom level to avoid clutter and to prevent overlap of symbols. GlamMap was developed for the Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) domain in cooperation with researchers in philosophy. We demonstrate the usefulness of our approach by a case study on …Read more
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264A philosophical perspective on visualization for digital humanities3Rd Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities. 2018.In this position paper, we describe a number of methodological and philosophical challenges that arose within our interdisciplinary Digital Humanities project CatVis, which is a collaboration between applied geometric algorithms and visualization researchers, data scientists working at OCLC, and philosophers who have a strong interest in the methodological foundations of visualization research. The challenges we describe concern aspects of one single epistemic need: that of methodologically secu…Read more
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259Towards a Computational History of IdeasProceedings of the Third Conference on Digital Humanities in Luxembourg with a Special Focus on Reading Historical Sources in the Digital Age: Luxembourg. Ceur Workshop Proceedings, 1681. 2016.The History of Ideas is presently enjoying a certain renaissance after a long period of disrepute. Increasing quantities of digitally available historical texts and the availability of computational tools for the exploration of such masses of sources, it is suggested, can be of invaluable help to historians of ideas. The question is: how exactly? In this paper, we argue that a computational history of ideas is possible if the following two conditions are satisfied: (i) Sound Method . A computati…Read more
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2@PhilosTEI: Building Corpora for PhilosophersIn J. Odijk & A. Van Hessen (eds.), Clarin in the Low Countries, . pp. 379-392. 2017.The step to e-research in philosophy depends on the availability of high quality, easily and freely accessible corpora in a sustainable format composed from multi-language, multi-script books from different historical periods. Corpora matching these needs are at the moment virtually non-existing. Within @PhilosTei, we have addressed this corpus building problem by developing an open source, web-based, user-friendly workflow from textual images to TEI, based on state-of-the-art open source OCR so…Read more
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24The Classical Model of Science: a millennia-old model of scientific rationalitySynthese 174 (2): 185-203. 2010.Throughout more than two millennia philosophers adhered massively to ideal standards of scientific rationality going back ultimately to Aristotle’s Analytica posteriora. These standards got progressively shaped by and adapted to new scientific needs and tendencies. Nevertheless, a core of conditions capturing the fundamentals of what a proper science should look like remained remarkably constant all along. Call this cluster of conditions the Classical Model of Science. In this paper we will do t…Read more
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Brentano and the Lvov-Warsaw SchoolIn Uriah Kriegel (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Franz Brentano and the Brentano School, Routledge. pp. 334-340. 2017.
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Twardowski and BrentanoIn Uriah Kriegel (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Franz Brentano and the Brentano School, Routledge. pp. 305-311. 2017.
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84Lesniewski's Early Liar, Tarski and Natural LanguageAnnals of Pure and Applied Logic 127 (1-3): 267-287. 2004.This paper is a contribution to the reconstruction of Tarski’s semantic background in the light of the ideas of his master, Stanislaw Lesniewski. Although in his 1933 monograph Tarski credits Lesniewski with crucial negative results on the semantics of natural language, the conceptual relationship between the two logicians has never been investigated in a thorough manner. This paper shows that it was not Tarski, but Lesniewski who first avowed the impossibility of giving a satisfactory theory of…Read more
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153Explanation in metaphysics and Bolzano’s theory of ground and consequenceLogique Et Analyse 211 281-316. 2010.
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30Tadeusz Czezowski, Knowledge, Science and Values-A Program for Scientific Philosophy Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 22 (1): 22-24. 2002.
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15Polish axiomatics and its truth: On Tarski's Lesniewskian background and the Ajdukiewicz connectionIn Douglas Patterson (ed.), New essays on Tarski and philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 44. 2008.
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211.3. Contro i fattiRivista di Estetica 49 55-72. 2012.This paper argues that the hypothesis that there are facts is ungrounded. I first introduce a series of important theoretical distinctions to say what facts are not – and to avoid misunderstandings as to what I take to be facts, states of affairs and relations. Then I present the so-called problem of the glue, which is linked to Bradley’s regress. Finally, I propose a stronger version of the problem of the glue, which I call the problem of directional glue, with the aim of giving additional evid…Read more
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18The Road from Vienna to Lvov. Twardowski's Theory of Judgement between 1894 and 1897Grazer Philosophische Studien 67 1-20. 2004.
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21Review of the book Leśniewski, lecteur de Frege (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 30 (2): 200-201. 2009.N. Gessler. Leśniewski, lecteur de Frege. Avant-propos de Denis Miéville. Neuchâtel: Centre de Recherches Sémiologiques – Travaux de log...
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43Leśniewski, lecteur de Frege (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 30 (2): 200-201. 2009.N. Gessler. Leśniewski, lecteur de Frege. Avant-propos de Denis Miéville. Neuchâtel: Centre de Recherches Sémiologiques – Travaux de log...
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Friedrich Stadler, The Vienna Circle: Studies in the Origins, Development and Influence of Logical EmpiricismInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 17 (2): 197-199. 2003.
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317The classical model of science: A millennia-old model of scientific rationalitySynthese 174 (2): 185-203. 2010.Throughout more than two millennia philosophers adhered massively to ideal standards of scientific rationality going back ultimately to Aristotle’s Analytica posteriora . These standards got progressively shaped by and adapted to new scientific needs and tendencies. Nevertheless, a core of conditions capturing the fundamentals of what a proper science should look like remained remarkably constant all along. Call this cluster of conditions the Classical Model of Science . In this paper we will do…Read more
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