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The Retrieval of the Letter 'To the Author of the Minute Philosopher' from September 9th, 1732: A Note
Full text linkThis is a short scholarly note about my retrieval an original copy of the Daily Post-Boy issue no. 7024 from September 9th,1732 from a private seller. In this issue we find an anonymous letter addressed to Berkeley which gave rise to him writing the Theory of Vision Vindicated. While Berkeley Berkeley appended a copy of the anonymous critic’s letter to TVV, until now an original copy of The Daily Post-Boy issue had yet to be discovered.
I have donated the original copy to the Marsh's Library in Dublin, but you will find a scan of the original document attached to the note
The Retrieval of the Letter 'To the Author of the Minute Philosopher' from September 9th, 1732: A Note
No full textThis is a short scholarly note about my retrieval an original copy of the Daily Post-Boy issue no. 7024 from September 9th,1732 from a private seller. In this issue we find an anonymous letter addressed to Berkeley which gave rise to him writing the Theory of Vision Vindicated. While Berkeley Berkeley appended a copy of the anonymous critic’s letter to TVV, until now an original copy of The Daily Post-Boy issue had yet to be discovered.
I have donated the original copy to the Marsh's Library in Dublin, but you will find a scan of the original document attached to the note
The Demystification of Nick Zangwill’s “Myth of Religious Experience”
Full text linkThe debate about religious experiences has recently been shaped by the question of whether they exist or if they are a myth. One of the most compelling arguments for the non-existence of religious experience was put forward by Nick Zangwill. In his “The myth of religious experience” (2004) he argued that God can be perceived neither by our ordinary five senses nor by some special sixth sense. While I agree with Zangwill that God cannot be perceived with our ordinary five senses (or a sixth religious sense), I do not think his argument shows that religious experience - based on Zangwill’s own understanding of the term - is a myth. In this paper, I offer in two steps a philosophical defence - in the analytical tradition - of the possible existence of religious experience as perceptual experiences. In the first step, I adumbrate Zangwill’s argument for the myth of religious experience, which fails because it ultimately begs the question - as I argue in the second step, by presenting a Berkelean answer to Zangwill’s challenge
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
Berkeley’s Doctrine of Signs
No full textThroughout his philosophical works, George Berkeley (1685–1753) emphasises the role that sign-usage, particularly in language, plays in human life, connecting it to our relationship with God—a central issue in his thought. This volume explores the myriad ways that he built on such insights to better understand a range of philosophical issues: epistemology, language, perception, mental representation, mathematics, science, and theology
Berkeley’s Doctrine of Signs
Full text linkThroughout his philosophical works, George Berkeley (1685–1753) emphasises the role that sign-usage, particularly in language, plays in human life, connecting it to our relationship with God—a central issue in his thought. This volume explores the myriad ways that he built on such insights to better understand a range of philosophical issues: epistemology, language, perception, mental representation, mathematics, science, and theology
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
A Scotist nonetheless? George Berkeley, Cajetan, and the problem of divine attributes
Full text linkProblem Bożych atrybutów należy do najczęściej dyskutowanych kwestii w filozofii irlandzkiej siedemnastego i osiemnastego stulecia. Krótko mówiąc, dotyczy on zagadnienia (i) ontologicznego: czy atrybuty człowieka i Boga różnią się co do stopnia czy rodzaju, a także (ii) semiotycznego: w jaki sposób posługując się naszym ludzkim językiem, powinniśmy opisywać owe atrybuty. O ile zgadzano się, że analogie odgrywają kluczową rolę w rozwiązaniu problemu semantycznego, spierano się o to, jako sposób wyrażania się dopuszczają; chodziło przede wszystkim o to, czy posługiwanie się analogiami podczas orzekania o Bogu stanowi odrębny rodzaj posługiwania się językiem i czy znaczenia przekazywanego za pomocą analogii należałoby odróżnić od znaczenia literalnego i metaforycznego.
Celem mojego artykułu jest kontekstualizacja stanowiska George’a Berkeleya odnośnie do Bożych atrybutów, wyrażonego w 21 paragrafie czwartego dialogu Alkifrona. Dokładniej rzecz ujmując, w przeciwieństwie do tego, co utrzymuje większość badaczy, twierdzę, że Berkeley nie zdołał zbyt dokładnie odtworzyć stanowiska kardynała Kajetana. Chociaż w przytoczonym paragrafie Berkeley parafrazuje jego De Nominum Analogia, zaproponowane przezeń rozstrzygnięcie bliższe jest stanowisku Jana Dunsa Szkota, a więc, o ironio, stanowisko, które Kajetan starał się odrzucić
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