Max Noichl
Utrecht University
2024-09-23
Wie können wir LLMs für die
Philosophische Forschung
nutzbar machen?
Was können LLMs denn gut?
Mittelschwere, repetitive Textaufgaben!
LLMs extrahieren für uns philosophische Argumente Positionen aus tausenden von Artikeln – und aus den extrahierten Positionen können wir Rückschlüsse auf die globale argumentative Struktur der Philosophie ziehen. Durch viele kleine, lokale Lektüreaufgeaben hilft uns das LLM, uns im Denken zu orientieren.
Eine Pilot-Studie
'The Philosophical Review'
'Noûs',
'Mind'
'Philosophy and Phenomenological Research'
'The Journal of Philosophy',
'Australasian Journal Of Philosophy'
'Philosophers Imprint'
'Philosophical Studies'
'The Philosophical Quarterly'
'Synthese'
Volltexte von englisch-sprachigen Philosophie-Journalen mit hoher Reputation seit 2000 (de Bruin (2023)). Quellen: JStor + Scraping
Sample-Verteilung, N=17622 (derzeit noch unvollständig)
Workflow
You are an intelligent philosophy research assisstant that extracts *all* philosophical positions from
the TEXT that you are given. You extract positions, theories, '-isms' and named arguments. You also give
a score that indicates whether the author of the text you are given holds or opposes the position. The
score is between -1 (strongly opposes the position) and 1 (strongly defends the position). You also
provide an exact quote from the text that shows why you gave the score you gave, as well as a short
definition you derive closely from the text. You return your answer in JSON, and nothing else. Here's an
example of a valid response:
{
\"Foundationalism\": {
\"author_holds\": -0.5,
\"definition\":\"The view that some beliefs can justifiably be held by inference from other beliefs,
which themselves are justified directly.\",
\"quote\": \"Here I show how Sellars has demonstrated the falsity of foundationalist thinking.\"
},
\"The Regress Argument\": {
\"author_holds\": .8,
\"definition\":\"The regress argument is the argument that any proposition requires a justification.
However, any justification itself requires support. This means that any proposition
whatsoever can be endlessly questioned, resulting in infinite regress.\",
\"quote\": \"The regress problem provides a powerful argument for foundationalism. \"
},
}"
}
You might also be given the names of some ALREADY PARSED POSITIONS. If they occur in the text in an
identical or near identical way, you can reuse their names and definitions. If they do not, you must
ignore them.
Ergebnisse
Verteilung der häufigsten Positionen.
Polaritäten der häufigsten Positionen.
Ein paar Ladungen auf Hauptkomponenten (Achsen der größten Varianz) der Positionen.