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John Baillie's Epistemology of Mediated Immediacy: its Logic, Importance for Baillie's Mediating Theology, and Promise as a Model of Revelatory Religious Experience
No full textThe field of academic theology is presently maintaining the following about the
critical thought of the Scottish thinker John Baillie (1886-1960): (1) Baillie’s so-called
"mediating theology" does not have a concept to contribute to contemporary Christian
thought; (2) Baillie's concept of "mediated immediacy" is important primarily for
Baillie's thought in his Our Knowledge of God (1939); (3) mediated immediacy’s logic
about knowledge of God is severely convoluted. Received positions which support the
field's marginalization of mediated immediacy's contemporary relevance in particular,
they come with a concession: (4) the field's confusion about mediated immediacy's
meaning—this, as evidenced in over 75 years' worth of competing interpretations about
mediated immediacy’s logic, in particular.
This thesis centers primarily on Baillie's concept of mediated immediacy, taking
as its primary aim the resolution of research issues (1-4). In doing so, it demonstrates that
previous research has underestimated: the staying power of Baillie's mediating theology
in general, mediated immediacy’s importance for Baillie’s mediating theology in
particular, and mediated immediacy’s potential as a contribution to contemporary
Christian thought. Along the way, it resolves several research issues which have been
occasioned by perennial confusion about the logic of mediated immediacy's normative
epistemology and descriptive epistemology in particular. Research contributions about
the logic of mediated immediacy's epistemology per se, these derive from three
additional research contributions: a diachronic trace of the development of Baillie's
mediating theology (Baillie research has sought a comprehensive and cogent ordering of
Baillie's non-systematically articulated critical thought; this thesis provides it, by
identifying Baillie's espistemic and apologetic preoccupations across his critical thought's
roughly 35-year development); a modeling of mediated immediacy's logic (previously
absent in a research corpus whose literature ahs been replete with confusion), that logic's
expression in what is found to be, contrary to the thrust of previous research, a concept of
mediated immediacy that serves at least four functions for Baillie's mediating theology;
and, a comprehensive and rigorous critical evaluation of mediated immediacy’s epistemology (also previously absent in Baillie research literature), a multi-disciplinary
evaluation of it's logic (from contemporary philosophical-epistemological, empiricalpsychological
and theological-epistemological perspectives), included. An evaluation
warranted by the multi-disciplinary scope of Baillie's mediating theology, as well as by
Baillie's employment of his rather versatile concept of mediated immediacy, this
evaluation considers mediated immediacy's now robustly evaluated logic's consequences
for core aspects of Baillie's mediating theology, including Baillie’s ideas of knowledge of
God, divine action, divine revelation and religious experience.
The definitive work on John Baillie's concept of mediated immediacy, this thesis
is essential for those with an interest in John Baillie's critical thought. Amongst other
things, the thesis challenges positions widely held by John Baillie research. For example,
it demonstrates that a nascent form of mediated immediacy existed in Baillie's thought
before the concept's first explicit mention in the mediating theologian's 1939 publication
Our Knowledge of God. Here is a novel interpretation in the research. Furthermore,
whereas previous research has rightly observed that Baillie’s critical thought gravitates
toward the problems of revelation and knowledge of God in general, this thesis
demonstrates that Baillie’s mediating theology focuses on one problem in particular—
across the roughly 35-year span of its development: the problem of the epistemological
relationship between direct knowledge and indirect knowledge for knowledge of God. In
addition, this thesis demonstrates that Baillie’s latter mediating theology (post-1939)
provides a stronger doctrine of the Holy Spirit than that found in Baillie's earlier critical
thought.
This thesis may also be of value to persons with broader interests, including the
epistemic interplay between aspects of philosophy of religion, philosophical theology,
and empirically-based interpretations of the phenomena of religious experience
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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