Welcome to Visualizing Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Visualizing SEP is an interactive data visualization for exploring the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, one of the Web's foremost resources on philosophy. There have been several beautiful visualizations of the SEP before, but there has not been a single application that combines the beauty, ease, and power of exploring the SEP in the way this application does. I am not a professional philosopher myself, but I am a developer and engineer, and I wanted to make my own small contribution to the SEP community by building a tool to explore and navigate the SEP in ways that weren't possible before. The domain taxonomy used for grouping articles is not derived from the SEP itself. Using a combination of text search, topic modeling, and old-fashioned hard-coding, I then tagged all the articles with specific domain references. Every article was tagged with at least one domain, its primary domain, which was the domain it was considered best grouped with. Most articles were tagged with other domain references as well.