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The back and forth between Habermas and postmodernism
No full textThis paper aims to investigate the dialogue between some postmodern thinkers (mostly Lyotard, Rorty and Vattimo) and Habermas’ criticism in light of a different conception of dialogue itself. Therefore, we shall first give an account of how Habermas establishes his neomodern discourse (1985) in a very close
dialogue with the key concepts of postmodernism: the subject and its social role, language and the concept of philosophical truth and the postmodernist view of history (Lyotard, 1979, Vattimo, 1974, 1985, 2009; Rorty, 1989; Bauman, 1993). Secondly, dialogue will be addressed as a structural difference between Habermas’universal normative ethic of discourse (together with Karl-Otto Apel, 1983) and the postmodern local and linguistic pluralism, emancipated from any metaphysical ratio. In the end, it will be argued that philosophy ought to be dialogical in line with Habermas’ view, within the foundation and normativity of dialogue. Postmodernist dialogue in philosophy and in society displays instead many shortcomings if understood as a pluralist linguistic game of interpretation
A new European Constituent Process? A Deliberative Constitutionalist suggestion
No full textThe present paper aims to address the debate on the legitimacy of European constitutionalism through different foundational assumptions. It is a well- known matter that constitutional states suffer of paradoxical origins, among which a vicious cycle of legitimation between the sovereign and founding constituent power and the legitimated constituted authority stands out the modern narrative. This has led, on one side, to a crisis of trust between present and future claims and the founders’ intentions and commitments; on the other, to various sceptical authors to dismiss the concept of constituent pow- er, especially where the transnational dimension configures as pluralist and post-sovereign. On the contrary, the paper proposes the recovery and review of the idea of constituent power in deliberative constitutionalist terms: it envisions a circular constituent process among generations, an ongoing conversation that could continually unveil the moral substance of the demos and reconstruct retroactively its own origin. Deliberative constitutionalism provides an efficient remedy to the problem of authorization among generations, as well as to the liberal friction between constitutionalism and democracy. In this sense it frames constitutions both as a mirror and catalyst of the community. The paper claims eventually that this constituent process could be a distinctive feature of the European polity itself, identifying the normativity of transnational constitutionalism as the opportunity to fix modern paradoxes and trusting flaws
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
Deliberative Constitutionalism and Constitutional Pluralism in the European Union: Synthesis or Antithesis?
No full textSignificant normative frameworks such as deliberative constitutionalism and constitutionalism pluralism have called into question the legal features of constitutions in the context of a plurality of authority claims, as well as the issue of constitutional legitimacy in circumstances of democratic deficit. There is however a limited view linking legal and political theoretical investigation in these frameworks, taken individually. The present paper claims that there can be a fruitful comparison between deliberative constitutionalism and constitutional pluralism, both in antithetic and synthetic terms. This comparison will be carried out through the epistemic investigation of a meta-constitutional rationale in transnational constitutionalism. Eventually, the paper will propose a notion of communal constitutionalism gathering elements from both normative frameworks and introducing an innovative rationale, with an emphasis on the role of future generations
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
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