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Bodies, Spirits, and their Controversial Nature: A New Reading of Descartes' Correspondence with Henry More
No full textReview Essay: Jean-Pascal Anfray (éd.), Correspondance René Descartes ; Henry More, précédé de Étendue, corps et esprit : le dualisme en question, Éliott Éditions, Montreuil 2023
Per una lettura biologica del concetto di Spirit of Nature in Henry More.
No full textThe article focuses on the context in which the concept of spirit of nature was elabora- ted by Henry More in an attempt to delineate the medical or biological background which, according to the interpretation here, he drew upon. In analyzing those parts where he describes the embryological and physiological role played by this immaterial vegetative principle, the Author stresses the importance of physicians and philosophers like William Harvey and Joan Baptista Van Helmont for More’s elaboration of a theo- logically acceptable conceptual framework that denies any active role to matter and, at the same time, reasserts the pivotal role of final causation in Nature. Moreover, the ambiguity found in such authors from More’s apologetic point of view is briefly outli- ned by examining the question of the natural perception of bodies, posed amongst others by a disciple of Harvey, Francis Glisson, and More’s critical response to it
Review: “Delphine Bellis, Daniel Garber, and Carla Rita Palmerino (eds.), Pierre Gassendi: Humanism, Science, and the Birth of Modern Philosophy. London: Routledge, 2023.”
No full textFor many seventeenth-century philosophers, Pierre Gassendi was an author as great as René Descartes. But for many reasons, this is not something established for historians of philosophy today. Against this distortion, this book edited by Delphine Bellis, Daniel Garber, and Carla Rita Palmerino, having behind it the work of several scholars who paved the way, overtly reaffirms the relevance of Gassendi’s thought both in itself and for the philosophers of subsequent generations.
Although not formally a companion to Gassendi, this well-organized volume is such de facto, and even something more than that. The collected contributions are a useful introduction to anyone who wants an overview of the main themes of his philosophy, but given their quality, the book will also be helpful to more specialized scholars. The editors have arranged a volume that brings together contributions from leading Gassendi specialists. Since this book provides a synopsis of the current state of research, and gathers together an almost exhaustive bibliography, manuscripts included, it will become an essential tool for anyone who is seriously interested in Gassendi and his context
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
Paving the Way of Ideas: Pierre Gassendi’s Epistemology and Its Reception up to Locke.
Full text linkThis paper aims to outline some features of Pierre Gassendi’s epistemology and its reception in John Locke. To do so, I will also analyze a few potential intermediaries between Gassendi and Locke, that is, the so-called Port-Royal Logic and Gilles de Launay’s Essais logiques. Then, I will address Locke’s manuscript drafts of his well-known Essay, showing the extent to which he endorses Gassendi’s objections to Descartes. According to the present interpretation, Gassendi’s epistemology is mainly a polemical weapon for Locke. Accordingly, the present tentative inquiry aims to place Locke’s ‘New Way of Ideas’ in a wider context of anti-Cartesian claims. Iron- ically, the framework in which both Gassendi and Locke articulated these anti-Cartesian claims is entirely Carte- sian, resulting from his epistemological shift towards ideas
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