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Principia Mathematica: The Choose Your Own Adventure Story's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Panel winner | #1 | n/a | n/a |
| Popular winner | #1 | 5.000 | 5.000 |
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What work(s) of philosophy does your piece take as its primary source(s)?
Whitehead, Alfred North and Russell, Bertrand. Principia Mathematica to *56.
Please tell us about your piece.
This piece turns "Principia Mathematica" into a choose-your-own-adventure story. As readers go along in the book, they trace the logical dependencies between chapters of "Principia." Each page includes a map showing all propositions in a given chapter and any propositions in "Principia" whose proof cites one or more propositions in that same chapter. On any given page, readers pick whichever chapter they wish to jump into next. By design, they can only go back to Chapter 1; this encourages them to get lost in the text's non-sequential chapter structure and adventure through the text along different paths. There is also an introduction that explains "Principia" and its philosophical goals to newcomers.
What other sources have you used in your piece?
https://1drv.ms/w/s!AtrCwfzvHFsmqyexiNciPbXnrcXV?e=s0VEUu
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I very much appreciate the concept behind this project and it looks like an excellent pedagogical piece. I think structured philosophical concepts can truly benefit from network graph representation. I was not very successful at accessing the graphs further, not sure whether it was my browser (Chrome) or flickr, but I was wondering whether the text of each proposition is directly accessible from the graph interface.
This is really cool, perhaps this means I don't have to actually read PM --- it's still staring at me, unread, from the book shelf --- or at least not up to *56 . Do you use this in your teaching? I think it would be cool for students who have courses on either PM or subjects related to it to have this as a resource in their syllabus.
Also, I don't know if there's a problem with my web browser (I tried it with Safari) but I did get some "Unexpected errors" from time to time and had to restart the game in order to continue.
Framing PM as a choose-your-own-adventure story certainly encourages me to see it in a new light! What might otherwise seem a dry, abstruse tome becomes an invitation to play in a spirit of exploration likely resembling that of its authors as they probed the possibilities of logicism. I would appreciate the inclusion of excerpts of the text itself indicating which mathematical formulae were treated in each chapter, but perhaps the piece is intended to challenge me to read the PM for myself as I navigate this representation of its structure?
Thank you for your comment! At some point I would definitely like to add excerpts from the text, comments on significant propositions in the maps, and maybe even summaries of each chapter.
I think that some (but very few) people who read the map will be caused to go read Principia. More people, I think, who work through the map will have a better impression of the text's value and view it as being less mysterious - and more fun - than they thought.
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