djbpitt
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5 years ago Very nice!
Projects can cite works under copyright the same way we would cite other publications in a traditional scholarly journal article. The restriction to public domain texts for our course applies only to the primary texts, the ones you mark up for analysis, since you'll need to publish reading views of those with your annotations, and you can only republish texts that are not under copyright restriction.
Analytic and continental philosophers are widely thought to use extremely different vocabularies. In order to see to what extent this is true, I will analyze texts written by continental philosophers such as Hegel and Heidegger. I am already familiar with the vocabulary of mainstream analytic philosophy, so I will not need to perform analysis of analytic texts. Nonetheless, if I am allowed to cite an analytic text with a copyright provided that I do not mark it up with XML, I may do so to support my assessment. Moreover, I believe Charles Peirce is one analytic-oriented philosopher whose writings are in the public domain, so I can use his work if I am in need of an analytic text to mark up.
Apart from the work of comparing and contrasting the vocabularies of analytics and continentals, I want to focus on analyzing and familiarizing myself with the vocabulary of continental philosophers. In fact, I could probably complete an entire project without doing the comparative work, because this latter focus on its own is bound to take a lot of work. I want to see how often continental philosophers use metaphorical and literal language. I also want to see how often they make arguments, especially ones structurally akin to those analytic philosophers make. So I will mark up continental texts according to the occurrence of terms that are telltale signs of metaphor, literalness, and argumentation. I am also quite interested in investigating whether different continental philosophers have any kind of shared, standard vocabulary, which is something I know analytic philosophers have today. As such, I will mark up terms that occur in a high percentage of the continental texts I read and proceed to classify them as standard continental terminology. Since, even within analytic philosophy, to some extent each subfield has its own specialized vocabulary, I will also consider whether there is any standard vocabulary among continental philosophers who discuss the same subject matter, whether or not there is a standard vocabulary used in all subfields of continental philosophy. I will mark up terms that occur in a high percentage of the continental texts written on certain subjects or within certain subfields to address this question.