Conceptual Schemes: a small history in Ones and Zeroes. Betti, A. November, 2018. Mathematics and its Philosophy between the 18th and the 19th Century, Amsterdam, 13-14 Juy 2018
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The notion of *conceptual scheme* is of key philosophical significance. Its origin, development, and spread are nevertheless unclear. Several purely qualitative and competing historical hypotheses have been offered, which rely on disconnected disciplinary traditions, and have never been tested all at once in a single comprehensive investigation fitting the scope of its subject matter. As a step toward such an investigation, I present an ongoing study in which we trace the use of the bigram “conceptual scheme” in a large corpus of tens of thousands of US journal articles from 1888-1969 in philosophy, psychology, anthropology, sociology and linguistics. We use a novel method combining a quantitative procedure aided by basic computational techniques with qualitative elements informed by Betti and van den Berg (2014)’s ‘model approach to the history of ideas’.
@misc{betti_conceptual_2018,
	address = {Amsterdam},
	type = {Keynote {Lecture}},
	title = {Conceptual {Schemes}: a small history in {Ones} and {Zeroes}},
	abstract = {The notion of *conceptual scheme* is of key philosophical significance. Its origin, development, and spread are nevertheless unclear. Several purely qualitative and competing historical hypotheses have been offered, which rely on disconnected disciplinary traditions, and have never been tested all at once in a single comprehensive investigation fitting the scope of its subject matter. As a step toward such an investigation, I present an ongoing study in which we trace the use of the bigram “conceptual scheme” in a large corpus of tens of thousands of US journal articles from 1888-1969 in philosophy, psychology, anthropology, sociology and linguistics. We use a novel method combining a quantitative procedure aided by basic computational techniques with qualitative elements informed by Betti and van den Berg (2014)’s ‘model approach to the history of ideas’.},
	author = {Betti, Arianna},
	collaborator = {van den Berg, Hein and Bloem, Jelke and Oortwijn, Yvette and Treijtel, Caspar},
	month = nov,
	year = {2018},
	note = {Mathematics and its Philosophy between the 18th and the 19th Century, Amsterdam, 13-14 Juy 2018},
}

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