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Beyond Transcendence and Immanence: the Hermeneutical Spiral
No full textThe spiral, which Ray L. Hart substitutes for the circle, traces the “hermeneutical arc” of the philosopher’s work from his two principal books, Unfinished Man and the Imagination: Toward an Ontology and a Rhetoric of Revelation (1968; 2001) to God Being Nothing: Toward a Theogony (2016). With this substitution, Hart offers much more than a pure and simple indication of his method, since the spiral is itself the method according to which his work proceeds. Indeed, this work is a form of thinking which progresses by intensifications, just like a spiral which grows and intensifies by revolving around an axis – not only upward and downward, but also toward the right and the left. And it is because Hart’s work is a spiral-like progression that the preposition which recurs the most frequently in his work is justified: “toward”. This preposition not only indicates the argument toward which the (philosophical and theological) work progress but signals the fact that this effort is intrinsically tension toward. Thus, “toward” is not a stylistic artifice which rescues the author from having to “define” the object of his research but is rather the preposition which expresses the fact that the author and his research are always in tension between a “terminus a quo” and a “terminus ad quem.” And given that the tension arises when two elements are conjoined and united without any annihilation of their differences, the spiral is the appropriate image for expressing that situation in tension because it is a figure capable of containing multiplicity within itself while also preserving differences. The spiral is capable of this because: (1) it begins by unfolding from a single point and revolving around an axis to progress toward someplace else, in order to (2) enrich itself with new coils which surpass one another without an annihilation of the previous ones, and (3) it does so in a way that is potentially infinite, going toward every possible direction. In sum, insofar as the spiral traces a movement which always goes “toward,” it expresses the way that all human investigation must occur. The originality of the spiral, however, appears when it is contrasted with two other figures which are typically used in philosophy to indicate the way in which research and knowledge are explained: that is, the circle and the line. The latter is the expression of knowledge which proceeds in a continuous and “linear” way: it is capable of sustaining contraries but not contradiction. Indeed, if – as Aristotle says – contraries are maximally distant terms of the same type, then there can be contraries in “linear” knowledge but there cannot be contradictions: the latter would be unproductive and fallacious (which is why they must be resolved). The circle, on the other hand, has presented itself in philosophy in different forms: as circulus in probando, circulus in definendo, petitio principiis, tautology, circulus vitiosus. In contrast to the line which proceeds “toward” in a linear way, the circle tautologically repeats itself – taking back up into itself not only contraries, but also contradictions. The spiral, on the other hand, is a curve which does not return upon itself but rather – as was mentioned above – unfolds by enriching itself with that which is different from it and by going toward that which is other: it intensifies and expands itself not in a linear way, but by appropriating that which precedes it. Accordingly, its “coils” which proceed in a progressive way can even contradict what existed before, as well. Unfolding “toward,” the spiral is capable of that contradictory quality of the multiple that returns on several occasions in Hart’s work. For this reason, although Hart introduces the spiral in order to emphasize its methodological fertility, we maintain that the entirety of his philosophical system proceeds like a spiral. We will attempt to demonstrate this by: (1) pointing out the moments in which Hart introduces this figure and inquiring into the philosophical role that he assigns to it; (2) showing how the spiral is not only the image which is announced by Toward a Theogony, but is also the image which opens philosophy toward what we will a metagony – that is, a philosophical method which, inheriting from tradition the patient inquiry into the “elements” of metaphysica generalis (being) and of metaphysicae speciales (God, the world/cosmos, and humankind), attempts to “comprehend the incomprehensible,” or their incessant genesis. (3) Finally, after highlighting the difference between “duality” and “dualism,” and after having identified the various pairs which Hart introduces, there will be an attempt to show how the spiral is the image which enables us to overcome the opposition of immanence and transcendence when these categories are – at least in philosophy – usually conceived according to a spatial scheme of inner and outer. The latter conception is rarely challenged in philosophical thought that investigates the human experience of the world, of humankind, and of God
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
Feld S., Manço A. — L'intégration des jeunes d'origine étrangère dans une société en mutation.Feld
No full textTribalat Michèle. Feld S., Manço A. — L'intégration des jeunes d'origine étrangère dans une société en mutation.Feld. In: Population, 56ᵉ année, n°5, 2001. p. 880
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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