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The debate between analytic and continental philosophy has raged for decades, but did you ever wonder who was winning? Would Russell or Hegel get you more retweets? What words and concepts do the denizens of Twitter associate with each tradition? In this post we look at Twitter's perceptions of Analytic and Continental philosophy to see if we can glean any sense of which philosophical tradition the Twitterverse is more amenable to.
Play with the Power BI visualization yourself here (carneades.org/2021/09/20/does-twitter-prefer-analytic-or-continental-philosophy/).
NRC Emotion Lexicon: (saifmohammad.com/WebPages/NRC-Emotion-Lexicon.htm) association of words with eight emotions (anger, fear, anticipation, trust, surprise, sadness, joy, and disgust) and two sentiments (negative and positive) manually annotated on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Available in 105 different languages. Version: 0.92 Number of terms: 14,182 unigrams (words), ~25,000 word senses Association scores: binary (associated or not) Creators: Saif M. Mohammad and Peter D. Turney.
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Information for this video gathered from The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Collier-MacMillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, and more!
The debate between analytic and continental philosophy has raged for decades, but did you ever wonder who was winning? Would Russell or Hegel get you more retweets? What words and concepts do the denizens of Twitter associate with each tradition? In this post we look at Twitter's perceptions of Analytic and Continental philosophy to see if we can glean any sense of which philosophical tradition the Twitterverse is more amenable to.
Play with the Power BI visualization yourself here (carneades.org/2021/09/20/does-twitter-prefer-analytic-or-continental-philosophy/).
NRC Emotion Lexicon: (saifmohammad.com/WebPages/NRC-Emotion-Lexicon.htm) association of words with eight emotions (anger, fear, anticipation, trust, surprise, sadness, joy, and disgust) and two sentiments (negative and positive) manually annotated on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Available in 105 different languages. Version: 0.92 Number of terms: 14,182 unigrams (words), ~25,000 word senses Association scores: binary (associated or not) Creators: Saif M. Mohammad and Peter D. Turney.
Donate on Patreon: patreon.com/Carneades
Buy stuff with Zazzle: zazzle.com/store/carneades?rf=238568769552007656
Follow us on Twitter: @CarneadesCyrene twitter.com/CarneadesCyrene
Information for this video gathered from The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Collier-MacMillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, and more!
