Maria Chiara Parisi

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam. I am currently working on reconstructing the explanatory role of mathematics within the debate on scientific explantions from Aristotle to Proclus. I combine philosophical methods with computational techniques.

Interests

• Data-driven History of Ideas
• Ancient Philosophy, specifically Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science
• History of Axiomatics
• Methodology of the History of Philosophical Ideas
• Digital Humanities
• Digital Classics

Experience

• Ph.D. Candidate,  ILLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam

  Sep 2021 - Ongoing
  Mathematics & Scientific Explanation in Antiquity: A ‘Slow Science’ and ‘Big Data’ Study

  My project focuses on clarifying the emergence of the view that mathematics is not explanatory within the ancient debate on scientific explanation. I aim to reconstruct the views, elucidate the conceptual presuppositions and identify actors of this debate over nine centuries (4th cent. BCE-5th cent. CE).

  I combine more traditional methods, like close reading or ‘slow science’, with computational techniques for text-mining purposes. I remain grounded in expert textual interpretation, while conducting a wide-scope study of a ‘big data’ corpus in ancient Greek and Latin spanning 450 authors.

  Supervisors: Arianna Betti (UvA) and Marije Martijn (VU Amsterdam).

• Research Assistant,  ILLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam

  Aug 2019 - Aug 2021
  NWO Vici project Ideas at Scale - Towards a Computational History of Ideas (e-Ideas)
• Research Assistant,  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Feb - Apr 2021
  A case study in digital history of philosophy (CLUE+ project)
• Research Assistant ,  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Oct - Dec 2020
  A Digital History of Ideas (CLUE+ project)

Education

• Master of Arts (MA),  Universiteit van Amsterdam

  2017 - 2019
  Philosophy (research)
• Bachelor of Arts (BA),  Sapienza Università di Roma

  2013 - 2016
  Philosophy