This book offers an unprecedented quantitative portrait of analytic philosophy focusing on two seemingly marginal features of philosophical texts: citations and acknowledgements in academic publications.
Eugenio Petrovich is an assistant professor in philosophy of science at the University of Turin. Previously, he has worked at the Universities of Milan, Siena, and Tilburg. His main research interests include quantitative studies of science, quantitative methods for the history of philosophy, and science policy and research evaluation. His studies have been published in journals such as Scientometrics, PLOS ONE, Synthese, and Logique et Analyse, among others.
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“Eugenio Petrovich’s Quantitative Portrait of Analytic Philosophy is a delightful and well-crafted addition to the arsenal of examples of just this kind of complementary work. … I believe this is an important book—not just for its first-order content, which offers a wide array of historical insights, and which should lead to fruitful debates in the history of contemporary philosophy, but also for its second-order content, which presents a careful example of quantitative methodology … .” (Charles H. Pence, Metascience, Vol 34 (1), 2025)
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On the margins of philosophy.- Theoretical frameworks.- The research object.- Structure and dynamics of analytic philosophy.- Knowledge accumulation in analytic philosophy.- The social space of analytic philosophy.- Socio-epistemic communities in analytic philosophy.- Quantitative metaphilosophy.