Introduction

The introduction presents the volume, that collects the Proceedings of the conference on "Humanities Computing: Philosophy and Digital Resources," held in Bologna, at the Department of Philosophy, on 22-23 September 2000. The conference was organized to assess the recent advances in humanities computing and, more specifically, the impact of digital tools on the development of fields such as the history of philosophy, and the history of science and technology. The introdoction presents the contributions to the volume as grouped in two sections, respectively devoted to the development of tools for text processing, and to case studies and methodological issues in the domain of computer-based text analysis. The introduction concludes with a discussion of the intitutional consequences and implications of the new developments in technologies and the associated changes in scholarly methods.