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>While the most prolific authors can not always be understood to have shaped the field in a deep fashion, they anchor the clusters in more recent debates, and give me an opportunity to mention more women in the graphic.

What a strange non-sequitur.

The clusters look strange to me as well - I don’t see any expected names aside from Plato and Aristotle for classics.

The choice of embedding a first-person narrative into the poster is also quite strange.

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> embedding a first-person narrative

Not exactly a narrative (as in, story telling), but rather a methodology section (ok, with "I" instead of the conventional "we" or passive).

(Note that the embedded text does not exactly correspond to the attached text, btw.)

I found the projection and clustering informative. I thought continental philosophy was quite far out, and good riddance. That north-western corner seems to cover most of hermeneutics. (Mathematical topics are even further out, such as set theory and recursion.)

What expected names were missing? Popper, Quine, Rawls, Nozick, Parfit, all there.

>The clusters look strange to me as well - I don’t see any expected names aside from Plato and Aristotle for classics.

What names did you expect? A lot of them look part for the course.

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