UDC

167.7

Authors

Artem V. Makulin
Northern State Medical University
51 prosp. Troitskiy, Arkhangelsk, 163000, Russian Federation;
e-mail: Art-makulin@yandex.ru

Abstract

This article deals with a new phenomenon within the Digital Humanities, the so-called digital visualization of philosophy, i.e., attempts of researchers to create public web applications aimed at graphic modelling of various philosophical relations and recognition of new forms of knowledge within these relations. According to the author’s position, visualization of philosophy is a set of ways of presenting philosophical information in a convenient form for visual observation and analysis. However, the type of digital visualization of philosophy considered in this article should not be confused with attempts of aesthetic-artistic representation of philosophical concepts and table-schematic representations of philosophical principles, the essence of which is also reviewed by the author and is defined as basic but transitional forms on the way to digital visualization. A key approach in dealing with “computerization” of philosophical knowledge is a paradigm called in the Western intellectual tradition pancomputationalism, or computational turn, which means, firstly, active use of aided learning (CAI – computer-aided instruction) in the process of teaching philosophy, and, secondly, utilization of computer technology for programming and simulation of philosophical problems. Computer processing of philosophical data implies, in the first place, the creation of data arrays and databases allowing one to find a variety of stable relationships and information clusters required for philosophical data computing. The rate of extraction of new philosophical concept combinations, relationships and taxonomies is growing due to data processing automatization. This paper analysed the best-known and most available resources on the Internet which illustrate the range of methods utilized in visualization of graphical data relating to various sections of philosophical knowledge. In addition, the author proposed a new term: visiosophy.

Keywords

digital humanities, visiosophy, visual philosophy, infographics, philosophers maps, philosophers network visualization

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