The Discourse of Philosophy 1940-1999

by Olle Persson,

Inforsk, Department of Sociology, Umea University, SE-901 87 Umea, Sweden

Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database that indexes literature from philosophy and related fields, which also lists names of individuals discussed as the subject of the original document. In order to map this type of discourse the frequency of named persons and their co-mentions were calculated. The study was limited to journal articles in English published between 1940-1999. The closer two names are the more often they are co-mentioned in the papers, which is also indicated by the thickness of the lines connecting them. The area of a circle represents the number of papers that mention the philosopher. To be included a name had to occur in at least 250 papers.
Click on a name below and that click will link you to the Philosophical Dictionary.

Number of papers in which a name is discussed:
3246: Aristotle, 3207: Kant, 2770: Plato, 2026: Wittgenstein, 1933: Hume, 1775: Aquinas, 1757: Heidegger, 1665: Hegel, 1380: Marx, 1267: Descartes, 1146: Russell, 1141: Husserl, 1111: Nietzsche, 1099: Quine, 1057: Dewey, 948: Locke, 850: Whitehead, 763: Peirce, 746: Sartre, 723: Rawls, J, 709: Popper, 707: Leibniz, 681: Frege, 678: Mill, 647: Socrates, 617: Kierkegaard, 577: Augustine, 559: Berkeley, 546: Hobbes, 507: James, 505: Spinoza, 502: Moore, 502: Davidson, D, 462: Freud, 441: Strawson, 438: Goodman, N, 435: Carnap, 430: Merleau Ponty, 426: Kripke, S, 423: Derrida, J, 417: Habermas, J, 389: Putnam, H, 386: Rorty, R, 376: Foucault, M, 372: Hare, R, 371: Ryle, G, 327: Austin, 306: Searle, J, 296: Kuhn, T, 292: Rousseau, 290: Lewis, D, 286: Chisholm, R, 283: Ayer, 263: Nozick, R, 260: Newton, 257: Ockham, 253: Collingwood, 250: Anselm, 250: Einstein

Death causes

Conceptual structure 1990-1999

Egocentric map of Thomas Kuhn

From concepts to names
Click on the map below to get most frequently mentioned authors with a concept (descriptor)