Joshua Wilson Black
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New Publication: Creating Specialised Corpora from Digitized Historical Newspaper Archives
One of the promises of digital humanities for the ‘historical sciences’ is that we’ll be able to, in Tim Hitchcock’s words, shift from ‘piles of books’ to ‘maps of meaning’. That is, we’ll be able to produce high level representations of phenomena across large collections of text.
Last updated on Jan 26, 2023
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Peirce on Metaphysics and Common Sense Belief
A volume in honour of Christopher Hookway is currently in the works edited by Robert Talisse, Paniel Reyes Cárdenas, and Daniel Herbert. I’ve contributed a piece on Chris’s account of Peirce’s metaphysics, especially as it appeals to ‘common sense’.
Last updated on Jun 28, 2022
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Religious Belief as Vague Hypothesis: A Classical Pragmatist Account
Work-in-progress presentation with Neil W. Williams combining Peirce and James’s accounts of religious belief.
May 31, 2022 5:30 PM — 7:00 PM
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Philosophical Writing in Early New Zealand Newspapers
A presentation of a corpus construction method for specialised topics in historical newspaper archives, with NZ philosophical content as a case study.
Nov 22, 2021 9:30 AM — 10:00 AM
University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha
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Philosophical Discourse in Early New Zealand Newspapers
Finding and characterising philosophical discourse in early New Zealand newspapers.
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The Philosophy of Charles Peirce
Various ongoing papers on the philosophy of Charles Peirce and its contemporary applications.
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