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Il metodo e l'errore. Galileo e la filologia del libro della natura
Full text linkHa scritto Gadamer che il «modello della filologia» ha avuto un «valore esemplare
per il metodo scientifico». A partire da alcuni esempi ricavati da testi galileiani,
in particolare dal Saggiatore (1623), l’articolo si propone di illustrare la funzione
euristica dell’errore nella nuova ermeneutica galileiana del «libro della natura», che
include tra le sue procedure fondamentali la verifica sperimentale, e dunque la
possibilità della emendatio. Se il metodo è etimologicamente una strada, la ricerca
diviene a sua volta un cammino, lungo e laborioso, nel corso del quale si può sbagliare
direzione, perdersi, essere costretti a tornare indietro. Proprio la necessaria
complementarità di ipotesi ed esperimento diviene così per Galileo il fulcro del
metodo scientifico moderno che pone al centro la coscienza socratica della fallibilità
umana e contrappone all’autorità e al dogmatismo una nuova etica della ricerca
e una nuova retorica del dialogo
I demoni del Tasso
No full textIl criterio del "meraviglioso cristiano" ideato dal Tasso nei giovanili Discorsi dell'arte poetica quale nuovo principio fondativo dell'epos moderno viene collegato alle più tarde riflessioni demonologiche sviluppate nel dialogo Il Messaggiero, sullo sfondo del magismo cinquecentesco, per ricavarne una chiave di lettura interna applicabile ai grandi episodi magico-diabolici della Liberata: il concilio infernale (canto IV), l'incantesimo della selva (canto XIII) e il giardino di Armida (canto XVI)
Bibbia e lessicografia mediolatina,
No full textLo studio affronta il problema dell'utilizzo del testo biblico da parte dei lessicografi mediolatini. Dal confronto dei testi si evince che il sermo Dei era inteso come materiale linguistico su cui esercitare competenze grammaticali da uomini di scuola, più che da teologi e interpreti della Scrittura
Sacra scrittura e riscrittura epica. Tasso, la Bibbia e la "Gerusalemme liberata".
Full text linkIl saggio analizza le forme e le funzioni dell'intertestualità biblica presenti nella "Gerusalemme liberata" di Torquato Tasso. La conclusione analizza il tardo sonetto tassiano a Carlo Borromeo ("Rime", n. 1642), mettendo in luce, per contrasto, la diversa funzione delle memorie bibliche nella "Gerusalemme conquistata"
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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