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

大数据时代的哲学和宗教研究：

————大范围文本分析和数据库的方法

Speaker/主讲人：

Edward Slingerland

Universityof British Columbia

（加拿大著名哲学家，曾任加拿大国家讲席教授）

Time/时间：

2016年12月7日 2：30PM-4PM

Location/地点：

Schoolof Philosophy, Room 114 South Wing

必赢766net手机版南楼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/

该讲座之后是关于宗教史数据库的介绍 4pm-5pm

http://www.religiondatabase.org/

必赢766net手机版/School of Philosophy, Wuhan University