Christophe Malaterre (UQAM), Jean-Francois Chartier (UQAM), Davide Pulizzotto (UQAM)
What is philosophy of science? For the 50th anniversary of the first biennial meeting of the PSA, we look back at eighty years of Philosophy of Science by running dynamic topic-modeling analyses over the complete full-text corpus of the journal from its start in 1934 until today. Our results document the rise and fall of logical positivism, the permanence of metaphysical questions, the significance of epistemological issues as well as the recent rise of philosophy of biology and other trends. These analyses show how text-mining methods can be used to conduct a reflexive analysis upon our very own discipline.
