Navigating the Taxonomy
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Introduction
The InPhO taxonomy is a set of ideas based on expert feedback and iterations of custom programs developed to crawl through the SEP. Many of the ideas have several nodes underneath them, and those in turn have more relations uncovered. The taxonomy is dynamic, and more nodes and ideas are added everyday, based on new publications in the SEP.
The OntoTree
The OntoTree is on the left side of the taxonomy page (which can be accessed via the homepage, on the right side) (Editors: You may access the page on the right side of your myinpho homepage)
As seen here, the Ontology Tree comprises of 22 main ideas, with several nodes underneath them. Main ideas include ethics, metaphysics, logic, and philosophy of mind. These ideas are based on our overall crawl throughout the SEP, but the list will continue to grow with new entries logged. The plus sign (+) indicates that the parent idea can be expanded into one or more child ideas. For example, Feminist Psychology has two children: feminist interventions and methods in feminism. These subclasses may also be able to be expanded, depending on how much literature there is on the subjects.
Upon the selection of an idea, information pertaining to that node appears to the right of the tree, which is detailed in the next section.
Above the tree is an ability to search our list of ideas, and an autocomplete text box will guide you to a search that is listed in our idea database. If a search for an idea is not found, you will be returned to the philosophy node (the top node). If you feel this idea should be included, please email us with your suggestion!
Node Example
Based on what was extracted from the SEP and Wikipedia entries on philosophers and philosophical ideas, each node has been populated with a plethora of information based upon it. If the option is available, the user can either: search for the topic in Wikipedia, or search for the article in the SEP. An icon will appear next to the topic, indicated what exact matches are available ('W' for wikipedia and the SEP icon for the SEP) The categories of searches that a user can performed under a node are detailed as follows:
- Subclasses: Based on the structure of the taxonomy, each node may or may not have subclasses (or child nodes) underneath them. For example, feminist psychology has two subclasses: feminist intervention and methods in feminism. The names of these subclasses may be based on expert feedback or by what our system has picked up from an iteration through the SEP or Wikipedia.
- Instances: These include specific articles found within the SEP or phrases that may have come up within SEP articles or Wikipedia entries. Common entries and names have been placed under here in order to represent the general ideas underneath the class selected.
- Links: This section gives some articles or phrases that have appeared with this idea frequently or have a similar relation to the idea based on expert feedback by editors of the ontology. The ∩ icon indicates an "intersection" or that upon instantiation of a search, both of these ideas will appear in the query along with the original node. For example, clicking the SEP icon next to "pornography ∩ censorship" will direct you to the article titled "pornography and censorship", which also ties into feminist philosophy.
- Philosophers: These philosophers are related to the idea in some respect, either by writing literature on the idea or contributing to the idea in some way. Every Philosopher has a Wikipedia article on them, and most philosopher has a SEP article on them.
Each topic in the taxonomy for an idea has five types of searches that can be performed on it, as indicated by the buttons to the right of each of them. These include:
- SEP: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy search
- Noesis: The Noesis project searches academic philosophy on the Internet. It is closely affiliated with the InPhO project. From the website:By indexing regions, in effect, directories and subdirectories, rather than their contents, Noesis passes editorial control of its search space over to the individuals who, in managing their own web resources, add to, edit, and delete from the content searchable by Noesis.
- Google SEP: These uses Google's search engine rather than the SEP. Less results may be found due to the constrained searches (particularly those with many parameters), but these results may also be more refined.
- Google: A Google search with no specific databases tied to it.
- Scholar: A Google Scholar search (in Beta).
