Cinquante ans de Philosophiques

Une analyse thématique computationnelle

Abstract

Founded in 1974, Philosophiques has established itself as a leading journal of French-speaking philosophy in Quebec. Its fiftieth anniversary provides an opportunity to look back on half a century of articles, book reviews and thematic dossiers published in its pages. To this end, we present here the results of a computer-assisted thematic analysis of the complete corpus of the journal to date, comprising 1569 texts of philosophical content. This analysis, carried out using two thematic modeling algorithms, LDA and Top2Vec, also provides an opportunity to compare the performance of these two approaches. The results reveal the diversity of topics addressed in the journal since the Quiet Revolution. The evolution of these topics over time highlights the various influences and currents that have marked contemporary Quebecois philosophy, thus contributing to a better understanding of the history of philosophical thought in Quebec.