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Mine the Mind? Symposium on computational approaches to intellectual history and the history of philosophy
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Date & time: 31 May 2017, 14:00-18:00.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Location: Topelia (Unioninkatu 38, Helsinki), A205.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Registration: The symposium is free of charge but we ask that you register here by 23 May:
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">This symposium is dedicated to the exploratory work necessary for an understanding of how methods of data and textual mining can be useful in the study of intellectual history and the history of philosophy.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">It is not yet entirely clear in what ways methods from data science will contribute to increasing our understanding of the history of human thought. It is, however, imperative to seriously consider
and study the possibilities of these methods as applied to historical data across different periods and geographical locations.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">This symposium brings together three presentations from scholars across Europe. They each highlight a different approach to applying computational methods to the study of intellectual history and
the history of philosophy.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The symposium will be of great interest to students and researchers excited about innovative and groundbreaking methodologies in historical scholarship of philosophy and ideas.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Coffee and refreshments will be provided.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">14:00 Introductory remarks by Mikko Tolonen & Jani Marjanen (Helsinki)</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">14:15 John Regan (Cambridge): "The System Concept in David Hume's The History of England and ECCO 1750-1780"</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">15:00 Coffee</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">15:30 COMHIS Collective (Helsinki): "Exploring ECCO: Key moments in 18th-century philosophical literature"</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">16:15 Hein van den Berg (Amsterdam): "Creating a Computational History of Ideas" (joint work with Arianna Betti)</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">17:00 Debate: "So should we mine the mind?"</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The symposium is supported by Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History, Heldig - Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities & History, Nature and Empire in Eighteenth-Century Europe project.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
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