Philosophical research in Brazil: A structural topic modeling approach with a focus on temporal and gender trends

IF 0.4 3区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY METAPHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2024-07-23 DOI:10.1111/meta.12700
Marcos Fanton, Hugo Ribeiro Mota, Carolina de Melo Bomfim Araújo, Mitieli Seixas da Silva, Raquel Canuto
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This paper employs structural topic modeling (STM) to describe the academic philosophy landscape in Brazil. Based on a public national database, a corpus consisting of 12,515 abstracts of monographs defended in philosophy graduate programs between 1991 and 2021 was compiled. The final STM model identified 74 meaningful research topics, clustered into 7 thematic categories. This study discusses the prevalence of the most significant topics and categories, their trends across three decades, and their (positive or negative) association with the supervisor's gender. Results show the first empirical evidence that Brazilian philosophical research exhibits a greater focus on philosophers than on specific themes or problems. Moreover, by visualizing the variations in topic prevalence over time, it was possible to track the rise or decline of the major interest categories and topics. Finally, results also show which topics are more influenced or less influenced by gender.

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巴西的哲学研究:以时间和性别趋势为重点的结构性主题建模方法
本文采用结构主题建模(STM)来描述巴西的哲学学术景观。基于国家公共数据库,本文汇编了 1991 年至 2021 年间哲学研究生项目中通过答辩的 12,515 篇专著摘要。最终的 STM 模型确定了 74 个有意义的研究课题,分为 7 个主题类别。本研究讨论了最重要的主题和类别的普遍性、它们在三十年间的发展趋势,以及它们与导师性别的(正或负)关联。研究结果表明,巴西的哲学研究更多地关注哲学家,而不是具体的主题或问题,这是第一个实证证据。此外,通过可视化主题流行率随时间的变化,可以追踪主要兴趣类别和主题的兴衰。最后,研究结果还显示了哪些主题受性别的影响更大,哪些更小。
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期刊介绍: Metaphilosophy publishes articles and reviews books stressing considerations about philosophy and particular schools, methods, or fields of philosophy. The intended scope is very broad: no method, field, or school is excluded.
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