Category Archives: Data-Driven Research

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: 1st session, https://l.cnr.it/dr2c3s1 2nd session, https://l.cnr.it/dr2c3s2 3rd session, https://l.cnr.it/dr2c3s3 16 January, 15:00-19:00 Session 1. Quantitative History of … Continue reading →

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Project PAWOS receives funding from the University of Siena

Posted on July 30, 2021 by DR2 Turin Group

The research project PAWOS (Philosophy and/with/of Science) by Eugenio Petrovich, DR2 member, has been awarded the “MSCA Seal of Excellence @ UNISI” grant by the University of Siena. The project aims at investigating the contemporary relationship between philosophy and science … 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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Call for applications for Post-doc positions – Turin, Exeter, Amsterdam

Posted on April 12, 2021 by DR2 Turin Group

We are glad to announce that the University of Exeter and the University of Turin are looking for three post-doc position. Details about the job profiles below:

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New Digital Humanities course for PhD students available in Turin

Posted on March 1, 2021 by DR2 Turin Group

The Digital Humanities course for PhD students has been established at the PhD School for Humanities (Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze Umanistiche), University of Turin. The course is designed and hosted by the newly born inter-departmental centre of DIgital Scholarship … Continue reading →

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Upcoming talk by Eugenio Petrovic @DS² 2021 conference

Posted on February 15, 2021 by DR2 Turin Group

We are glad to announce an upcoming talk by Eugenio Petrovich at the DS² 2021 conference (Digital Studies of Digital Science) @UCLouvain. Here more details on the program. The conference aims to connect two groups of scholars working on separate … Continue reading →

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On-line workshop, February 17-19 – Sentiment analysis on multilingual 18th-century corpora

Posted on January 11, 2021 by DR2 Turin Group

We give notice of the on-line workshop Sentiment Analysis in Literary studies organized by the Centre for Information Modelling of the University of Graz. Sentiment analysis is a common task in literary studies, yet sitting outside the mainstream of analytic computational procedures … 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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Considerations about corpus-dependency of topic modelling with Mallet

Posted on November 30, 2020 by DR2 Turin Group

By Sara Garzone and Nicola Ruschena In the context of text mining, topic modelling analyses co-occurrence patterns among textual data, in order to isolate clusters from the set of expressions occurring in a corpus. Topic modelling aims at extracting topics … Continue reading →

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DR2@STOREP: quantitative history of ideas between philosophy and economics

Posted on September 30, 2020 by DR2 Turin Group

We are proud to announce that several DR2 members will be present at the 17th Annual Conference of STOREP (Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell’Economia Politica || Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought). This is now a well-established … Continue reading →

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