It can do a lot (see here) but beyond storing articles in different collection, it cannot help me much. Which is a nifty program, and getting better all the time. I had a look at my citation manager, Zotero. Ok, so not a good memory aid, that much is clear. So much so, that I would find a really nice mind map of some complicated problem on my hard drive, and think: “now where did I get this from” ? Only to remember a while after that I had made it myself – some weeks before. But the problem with mind maps is that they become incomprehensible when they get larger. Which I love coz I love infographics – see here. One of my professors once saw one of my maps and professed total admiration – how had I done that? I did not have the heart to tell him that children get taught this at school nowadays, and that there are many many people who are much better at creative mind mapping than I am. This is something I really like doing, and I found it worked well with short essays of the type that we were set during year-long skills seminar. Some of these I have documented here, and I introduced the idea of using tools here. source: ĭuring the ReMa journey, I tried various systems of organising what I learned. Somewhat like how the policy makers in the Hague look upon us civil servants to do the actual work (sorry, the day job crept in again). In fact, philosophers seem to think that because their thinking led to the Computer (see Aristotle introducing it below), they are under no obligation to do anything with it. Ok, so the reading may be on a computer and the holding forth via zoom – but that is as far as innovation has touched philosophy. The modus operandi does not seem to have changed in thousands of years: reading books and holding forth. The problem is, Philosophia must have the largest number of digital illiterates of any discipline. I suppose having spent most of my working life in information science, I have a penchant for organising (although this does not extend to my very large, ever messy desk). I am in search of a documentation and retrieval system for my thoughts and notes and everything that goes into future publications, phd, whatever. But that is not the kind of thinking that I mean.
Or they think about what others have thought. And yes, thinking is what philosophers do. An open door, yes: always a good idea, to think first.
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