DIGIHUMi ettekanne: Nat Hansen ja J. D. Porter

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"Racist", "Sexist", "Voluntary", "Involuntary", and the Rise and Fall of a Philosophical Movement: Philosophical Questions and the Digital Humanities

Abstract

Are we distorting the meaning of terms like "racist" and "sexist" by overusing them? How do we determine who is right and who is wrong when philosophers of language disagree about the meaning of terms like "voluntary" and "involuntary"? Can quantitative measures improve our understanding of the rise and fall of historical philosophical movements? In this presentation, we will discuss three examples of how tools from the digital humanities can be used to help answer philosophical questions.

Bio:

Nat Hansen is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Reading (UK), and co-director of the Reading Centre for Cognition Research. He currently holds a Humboldt research fellowship. Previously, he was a postdoc at the Institut Jean-Nicod in Paris and at Umeå University in Sweden. He got his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2010. His primary research interest is in philosophy of language, with an emphasis on contextualism, experimental semantics and pragmatics, the legacy of ordinary language philosophy, and the meaning of color terms.

J.D. Porter is a DH Project Specialist at the Price Lab for Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD in English from Stanford University in 2017 and then worked as the Associate/Technical Director at the Stanford Literary Lab. He specializes in text mining, American modernism, and race and ethnicity theory, with occasional forays into jazz studies, network analysis, and ordinary language philosophy.