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BRIDGING SCIENCE AND RELIGION
No full textAcknowledgments -- Contributors -- Foreword / Robert John Russell -- Introduction / Gaymon Bennett -- Pt. One. Methodology: how bridges are built -- Ch. 1. Science and theology: mutual interaction / Robert John Russell and Kirk Wegter-McNelly -- Ch. 2. Bridging theology and science in a postmodern age / Nancey Murphy -- Pt. Two. Constructing scientific spans -- Ch. 3. Natural law and divine action / Robert John Russell and Kirk Wegter- McNelly -- Ch. 4. Biological evolution in science and theology / Martinez J. Hewlett -- Ch. 5. Genetics, theology, and ethics / Ted Peters -- Ch. 6. Neuroscience, the human person, and God / Philip Clayton -- Pt. Three. Constructing religious spans -- Ch. 7. God's two books: special revelation and natural science in the Christian west / Peter M.J. Hess -- Ch. 8. Traditional Islam and modern science / Muzaffar Iqbal -- Ch. 9. Buddhism and the sciences: historical background, contemporary developments / Richard K. Payne -- Ch. 10. The nature of being human / Eduardo Cruz -- Ch. 11. Traditional Hinduism and modern science / Varadaraja V. Raman -- Ch. 12. Cosmology, evolution, and biotechnology / George L. Murphy -- Ch. 13. Science and ethics in Judaism: discernment and discourse / Laurie Zoloth -- Notes -- Authors' bibliographies and further reading -- Inde
Technicians of Human Dignity
Get PDFTechnicians of Human Dignity traces the extraordinary rise of human dignity as a defining concern of religious, political, and bioethical institutions over the last half century and offers original insight into how human dignity has become threatened by its own success. The global expansion of dignitarian politics has left dignity without a stable set of meanings or referents, unsettling contemporary economies of life and power. Engaging anthropology, theology, and bioethics, Bennett grapples with contemporary efforts to mobilize human dignity as a counter-response to the biopolitics of the human body, and the breakdowns this has generated. To do this, he investigates how actors in pivotal institutions —the Vatican, the United Nations, U.S. Federal Bioethics—reconceived human dignity as the bearer of intrinsic worth, only to become frustrated by the Sisyphean struggle of turning its conceptions into practice
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Ethics of biotechnology /
No full textEssays collected in this volume provide students of ethics with essential tools for making sense of emerging biotechnical capacities and the turbulent power relations these capacities are bringing into the world. Unlike previous reference works in bioethics, which focus on specific domains of human activity (such as genetic research or biomedicine), this volume directs students' attention to the underlying cultural and institutional forces that shape how biotechnologists approach the world, and teaches students how to weigh the ethical significance of these forces. This innovative approach to the ethics of biotechnology, detailed in the volume's introduction, equips students to track the dynamic interplay of biology, digital technology and the high-tech economy which is remaking the living world today and the human relation to it
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Assembler le vivant
No full textCe texte entend contribuer aux discussions anthropologiques actuelles autour du défi que constitue le fait de considérer un assemblage comme un objet d’enquête. Autrement dit, il traite du problème de l’assemblage en tant qu’objectif anthropologique. Je commencerai par exposer l’enchevêtrement méthodologique et ontologique que représentent les assemblages pour les travaux d’inspiration ethnographique, ainsi que la raison pour laquelle cet enchevêtrement importe dès lors qu’il s’agit de penser..
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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