The American Reception of Logical Empiricism: A Mention-Based Bibliometric Analysis
摘要
This paper supplements existing work on the development of logical empiricism with new quantitative data concerning the movement’s reception in the United States. Using EDHIPHY (“Enriched Data for the History of Philosophy”), a relational database specifically designed for bibliometric research on the development of twentieth-century philosophy, we trace the impact of logical empiricism on American philosophy before and after the migration. Specifically, we make use of EDHIPHY’s mention index, a catalogue of 1,095,765 mention links extracted from 22,977 full-text articles published in 12 Anglophone philosophy journals between 1890 and 1979 and conduct a comparative analysis of these mentions over time. We (1) explore the relative impact of 11 prominent representatives of logical empiricism, (2) compare the movement’s reception with a number of contemporaneous philosophical schools, (3) map its evolving place in the American philosophical landscape through a series of co-mention analyses, and (4) dissect logical empiricism’s reception by exploring the role of various journals and universities.