Update: Graph has now been made interactive.
I was originally put onto network visualisation by Simon Raper by his fantastic post graphing the history of philosophy. I've learned a lot in the last week and decided to be ambitious. I wanted to see what the entire network would look like - with everyone on Wikipedia. Well, everyone with an infobox containing 'influences' and/or 'influenced by'.
This is too good not to share!
Excellent! Love this. Fantastic project of meme mapping!
Randall Collin’s book, Sociology of Philosophies is a remarkable text. He used this kind of mapping to look at the social dynamics of philosophy and develop a cultural history of philosophy. It is a remarkable book.