- Title
- Traditional and Computational Methods for Recognizing Revisions in the Works of Plato
- Creator
- Tarrant, Harold
- Relation
- The Making of the Platonic Corpus p. 126-151
- Relation
- Contexts of Ancient and Medieval Anthropology 6
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/9783657793891_008
- Publisher
- Brill Schöningh
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- The recent global health crisis has taught us all to be wary of those who confront us with a variety of figures, graphs, and charts designed to show us where our countries are heading and what we must do about it. In modern research on almost any discipline it is possible to collect a wide range of data, and to present an analysis visually in ways that enable the ordinary person to have some appreciation of it. Presentational skills can enhance the intended impact, but in ways that Plato would consider to yield opinion rather than knowledge. Much of the material used for wider communication would not have the same impact upon those trained in the field, and a biologist acquaintance of mine is extremely critical of work presented to justify COVID-related policy-making. The presentation of data in any field requires scrutiny, the relevance of the data and the methods of collection require investigation, and the questions asked about the meaning of the data need to be pondered by those with experience in the field. The field of Platonic studies is no exception, and as the computer and its resources became ever more refined over recent decades, the field of “Humanities Computing” began to take on a life of its own.
- Subject
- Plato; Platonic studies; data presentation; humanities computing
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1499574
- Identifier
- uon:54726
- Identifier
- ISBN:97835067938983506793896
- Language
- eng
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