Philosophy and Religion in the Era of Big Data: Large-Scale Text Analysis and Database Approaches

大數據時代的哲學和宗教研究：

————大範圍文本分析和數據庫的方法

Speaker/主講人：

Edward Slingerland

Universityof British Columbia

（加拿大著名哲學家，曾任加拿大國家講席教授）

Time/時間：

2016年12月7日 2：30PM-4PM

Location/地點：

Schoolof Philosophy, Room 114 South Wing

beat365体育官网南樓114

Abstract/摘要：

This talk will discuss two on-going projects that apply “big data” approaches to the study of philosophy and religion. One project concerns the issue of the degree to which earlyChinahad a concept of mind-body dualism. The results of a series of studies, ranging from qualitative team coding to fully automated analysis, will be presented that take advantage of the fact that the Chinese textual corpus is largely digitized, allowing us to “read” it in entirely new ways. The second project concerns a massive database of religious/cultural history that is being constructed in order to subject functionalist theories of religion to more rigorous and comprehensive testing than has previously been possible, as well as allowing scholars to ask questions about cultural transmission and the contours of religious concepts and affiliations in a new way.

This lecture is followed by an info session on Database of Religious History Project/

該講座之後是關于宗教史數據庫的介紹 4pm-5pm

http://www.religiondatabase.org/

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