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Anti-foundationalism and liberal democracy: Richard Rorty and the role of religion in the public sphere.
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to critically examine Richard Rorty’s arguments in favour of a limited role for religion in the public sphere, both with regard to their practical value and their consistency with Rorty’s other philosophical commitments.
A brief description of Rorty’s various philosophical commitments is followed by a detailed analysis of the negative practical consequences that can be foreseen resulting from Rorty’s approach to the topic of religion and any attempt to enforce his proposed treatment of religion.
After looking at the practical problems with Rorty’s position, a closer look was taken at Rorty’s consistency across his philosophical writings. With a particular focus on Rorty’s pragmatism and his epistemic relativism the author concludes that Rorty’s arguments for reducing the influence of religion in the public sphere remain of questionable practicality and, furthermore, are at odds with his epistemological commitments.
Rorty’s commitment to liberal democracy entails a commitment to protecting citizens’ rights to voice their opinions in hopes of influencing public policy. Despite his controversial writings with regards to the role of religion in society, authors such as Jeffrey Stout and Nicholas Wolterstorff provide alternative approaches to the appropriate treatment of religion in society that remain consistent with an anti-foundational commitment to liberal democracy and can expect to produce more favourable practical outcomes.Graduat
Le rôle de la perception du risque dans la réticence à la vaccination et le défi de la communication
Get PDF"Dès le début de ce projet de livre visant la réticence à la vaccination, l’équipe de chercheurs
a rencontré un groupe d’experts et d’intervenants bien informées. Nous avons entendu des
personnes ayant des opinions bien arrêtées, mais opposées. Deux participants ont fait des
déclarations bien senties. L’une, épidémiologiste, connaissait bien les effets des maladies
infectieuses sur les populations et le rôle de la vaccination pour les maîtriser et les prévenir. […]"
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
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
ACCEPTABLE GENES? RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS AND GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS
No full textIntroduction / Conrad G. Brunk and Harold Coward -- 1. Genetics and genetically modified organisms / Samuel Abraham -- 2. Ethical perspectives on food biotechnology / Paul B. Thompson -- 3. Does vegetarianism preclude eating GM foods? / Lyne Létourneau -- 4. "When you plow the field, your Torah is with you"; genetic modification and GM food in the Jewish tradition(s) / Laurie Zoloth -- 5. Some Christian reflections on GM food / Donald Bruce -- 6. Genetically modified foods and Muslim ethics / Ebrahim Moosa -- 7. A hundred Autumns to flourish: Hindu attitudes to genetically modified food / Vasudha Narayanan -- 8. The karma of genetically modified food: a Buddhist perspective / David R. Loy -- 9. "So that you may have it with no harm : changing attitudes toward food in late imperial China / Hsiung Ping-chen -- 10. Born from bears and corn: why indigenous knowledge systems and beliefs matter in the debate on GM foods / Shiri Pasternak, Lorenzo Mazgul, and Nancy J. Turner -- 11. Regulatory and innovation implications of religious and ethical sensitivities concerning GM food / Conrad G. Brunk, Nola M. Ries, and Leslie C. Rodgers -- Contributors -- Inde
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