Graphing the History of Philosophy

Have you ever wondered what it would look like if you created a graph showing the relationship between all of the various figures in the history of philosophy? Me neither. But fortunately for us, someone else did.

You’ll need to read the whole article to get the details, but the chart was developed by “extracting the influenced by section for every philosopher on Wikipedia” and then running that information through an algorithm. Each philosopher shows up as a particular “node” in the chart, with the size indicating the level of influence...