We presented Phylo at 2007 North American Computers and Philosophy (NA-CAP) Conference (http://na-cap.osi.luc.edu/) earlier today. Our talk was focused on Phylo as a Web 2.0 tool that allows users to update information a fast, distributed way—much unlike several existing research tools that require centralized updates from a handful of administrators.

To set the stage, we talked about a number of existing uses of Web 2.0 in philosophy, including conferences, publications, and research tools. Since there was a lot of interest in these links, I’ve pasted them below.

Conferences

• Online Philosophy Conference (http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/
  online_philosophy_confere/)
• Second Life (http://secondlife.com/)

Publications

• Philosopher’s Imprint (http://www.philosophersimprint.org/)
  
• Philosophy Compass (http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/philosophy/)
  
• Online Papers in Philosophy (http://philosophy.jollyutter.net/opp/)
• The Institute for the Future of the Book (http://www.futureofthebook.org)

Research Tools

• Philosophy Journals Wiki (http://wikihost.org/wikis/philjinfo/wiki/start)
• Philosophy Jobs Wiki (http://wikihost.org/wikis/academe/wiki/philosophy)

Academic Genealogies

• Mathematics Genealogy Project (http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/)
• The Philosophy Family Tree (https://webspace.utexas.edu/deverj/personal/
  philtree/philtree.html)
• Australasian Family Tree (http://consc.net/tree.html)

As usual, these and more are available on our Links page above.

We got a number of good suggestions at the conference, including several contacts at other projects that should be especially helpful in the future.

This document presents five principles that guide our work with Phylo.

 Five Principles of Phylo.pdf (524K)

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There was a report published in the Chronicle of Higher Education earlier this year that’s worth mentioning here. Academic Analytics constructed the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index based on book and article publications and scholarly citations.

The CUNY PhD Program in Philosophy ranked second among philosophy graduate programs nationally and first among aggregated philosophy and religion doctoral programs. The full rankings are available at http://chronicle.com/stats/productivity/.

CUNY’s strong reputation makes it a good place for us to be developing a tool like Phylo. We’ve already gotten some great input from faculty members who are active in the field—presenting, publishing, editing—and I expect they’ll be able to offer many suggestions as we develop the displays and search functions of Phylo.

This document introduces The Phylosophy Project by talking about the need for Phylo, as well as what it can do and how you can use Phylo in your research and teaching.

 An Introduction to Phylo.pdf (652K)
 
 
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