The Sociology of Philosophies

processes; but what flows into these local situations comes from farther away. Micro-action is affected by the macro-structure. ...

is to find a topic someone else is talking about and agree with it, adding something which extends the argument. Not “No, you’re ...

The crunch is all the worse because the intellectual field is structured by rival- ries. Opposing positions contend over dominat ...

or laterally into less active fields, the numbers are smaller, but in every case the total active intellectual community is much ...

buried among them written in a code no one can understand. But we can also think of it as a magic palace of adventurously windin ...

producing a large number of papers is inversely related to the square of the number of producers (Price, 1986: 38, 223); hence t ...

percent of the total floating population) produce 25 percent of all publications over their lifetimes. The sheer amount of produ ...

network is correlated with being highly productive, in part because it facilitates rapid transmission of cultural capital. Becau ...

of advanced graduate students. I interpret their problem as a low level of EE specific to success in the intellectual field. Emo ...

Language itself is the product of a pervasive natural ritual. The rudimentary act of speaking involves the ingredients listed at ...

recognized; and of course there are numerous practical difficulties of being in a position to predict just what people are going ...

When people talk, they are conscious mainly of what they are talking about (i.e., its reference) and only subliminally of the so ...

artificial intelligence (AI) that will think like a human. Instead of filling it with programs for information processing, we st ...

make network contact in the core circles of the previous generation of creative intellectuals, becoming introduced to the centra ...

loaded with social significance because they symbolize membership in existing and prospective coalitions in the intellectual net ...

The external reference of ideas may also exist; I do not wish to deny whatever reality contents intellectual ideas may have, in ...

CHAPTER 2 £ Networks across the Generations High levels of intellectual creativity are rare. Why this is so is the result of str ...

FIGURE 2.1. NETWORK OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHERS, 400–200 B.C.E. Networks across the Generations • 55 ...

FIGURE 2.2. NETWORK OF GREEK PHILOSOPHERS FROM SOCRATES TO CHRYSIPPUS 56 • (^) The Skeleton of Theory ...

epicurus), and the names of secondary philosophers in initial capitals and lower case (Kao Tzu, Han Fei Tzu, Antisthenes, Speusi ...