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Modelling the COVID-19 Pandemic: Epidemiological, Epistemological, and Ethical Challenges
No full textIf we were seeking consolation for the huge difficulties that have plagued us since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, we might draw some comfort from the breadth and depth of the discussions that it has given rise to, for all that these have often led to the expression and propagation of misleading views. The present number of Argumenta opens with a Special Issue that intends to take stock of the tenor and quality of these discussions, bringing to light the awareness that we have been acquiring over the last few months about our overall cognitive situation.
The Special Issue, edited by Margherita Benzi, Raffaella Campaner and Francesco Barone-Adesi, is entitled Modelling the COVID-19 Pandemic: Epidemiological, Epistemological, and Ethical Challenges, and draws attention to the intricacy of formulating models that take into account the many factors at work in a pandemic. The result is an up-to-date discussion of these aspects that, by focusing on epistemological and epidemiological views, seek to identify what epistemic virtues should guide the choice of models for explanatory and predictive purposes
Francesco Barone. La filosofia, la tecnica e il ruolo delle Weltanschauungen
No full textraccolta di saggi di Francesco Barone in occasione del ventesimo della sua scompars
L'insegnamento di Francesco Barone. Una breve riflessione
No full textSi evidenzia l'interesse filosofico del contributo di Barone alla moderna immagine fallibilista della scienz
Introduction: COVID-19 Models and the Difficult Balance between Methods and Values
Full text linkThe article addresses some of the most urgent and pressing issues emerging from the pandemic, tackling them from both an epistemological and an epidemiological point of view, with a focus on different forms of modeling and the impacts they can have in the construction of a common understanding of the disease and its transmission
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
Noi della Città e Paesi de' dodeci Cantoni della Lodevole Lega Elvetica Senatori, ed Ambasciatori con Plenipotenza delle nostre rispettive Superiorità congregati al Sindacato di Lugano facciamo noto colla presente, qualmente...
No full textTextende: "Dat. in Lugano li 23. Agosto 1789. Sottos. Francesco Barone de Beroldingen Landscriba.
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