I came across a diagram that shows the patterns of references
to various philosophers in publications from 1950 to the present:
https://homepage.univie.ac.at/noichlm94/img/struct_phil_iii/full_struct.pdf

See below for a description of how that diagram was derived.

Most of the references are to philosophers active during the past
half century.  But Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas are still popular.
So are Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and Frege,

There are also groups classified under "Reactions to X", where X is
Kant, Spinoza, Descartes, Hume, Locke, Moore, Lewis, Popper, Quine.

Susan Haack appears in the group of reactions to Quine, but there
is no group for reactions to Peirce.

Prior appears in the group for non-classical logics.  He cited
Peirce in many publications, but Peirce did not make the cut.

Peirce has an enormous amount to contribute to modern philosophy,
but most philosophers are clueless.   Somebody has to clue them in.

John

PS: I doubt that papers about semes, phemes, and delomes will get
enough citations to make the cut.
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For this map, I parsed 55327 papers in philosophy from the Web Of
Science Collection.  The papers were determined by snowball-sampling: I
started with a small sample (a few thousand papers), and extended from
there by repeatedly looking at the most cited publications.  For each
paper I determined the works and authors it cited.  Each of these
features of the papers is a dimension in the dataset, which I then
embedded into two dimensions, using Uniform Manifold Approximation and
Projection, a dimension reduction algorithm by McInnes & Healy (2018).
These two dimensions form the basis of the scatterplot you see above.
Note that the position of a point on the x- or y-axis is meaningless:
only the relation of the points to each other can be interpreted.  The
reduced data was then clustered with the hdbscan algorithm into 42
clusters.
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