UDC

167.7

Authors

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

Abstract

This article is devoted to a new phenomenon of diagrammatology, which is a practice of visual thinking in philosophy, and its applications to the problems of developing the graphical language of social philosophy within the framework of the so-called concept of the “external mind”. In philosophical discourse, the “external mind” traditionally stands for the ways of philosophical knowledge visualization, i.e. its graphical representation for the purpose of constructing such visualizations that can be used as a source of new knowledge. A key approach in the “graphical” solution to the problems of philosophical knowledge infographics is the standpoint that a visual image of knowledge can be obtained in the process of infographical “flaking” from the object under examination, as well as through the socalled anticipatory reflection, which plays a major role in the process of visual text prediction. This paper reviews a number of concepts. Furthermore, the basic premise of this article is the position of neutrality of visualization toward the object of research. According to this position, the method of visual representation always tells us something more than the object itself, while the procedure of knowledge visualization generally goes its own – parallel – way and asks not “What to visualize?”, but “How to visualize?” The main thesis of this article is that there is a close relationship between the image-visual thinking that generates visual metaphors and homomorphic graphical models of socio-philosophical cognition, on the one hand, and heuristic effects appearing in the process of functioning of the graphical language of the “external mind”, on the other.

Keywords

social philosophy, diagrammatology, “external mind”, visual thinking, graphical language

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