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The Edge of Sentience by Jonathan Birch
No full textWBI’s Andrew Rowan reviews The Edge of Sentience by Jonathan Birch, a groundbreaking book on sentience across animals, humans, and AI, offering guidance into ethical and policy considerations
Jonathan Birch: The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024
No full textKillin AJ. Jonathan Birch: The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024. Teaching Philosophy . 2025;48(3):470-474
Faust : A Tragedy, In Two Parts, The First Part / By J. Wolfgang Von Goethe. Transl. Into English Verse, By Jonathan Birch, Esq., ... Embellished With Forty Engrav. On Steel, By John Brain, after Moritz Retszch
No full textFAUST : A TRAGEDY, IN TWO PARTS, THE FIRST PART / BY J. WOLFGANG VON GOETHE. TRANSL. INTO ENGLISH VERSE, BY JONATHAN BIRCH, ESQ., ... EMBELLISHED WITH FORTY ENGRAV. ON STEEL, BY JOHN BRAIN, AFTER MORITZ RETSZCH
Faust : A Tragedy, In Two Parts, The First Part / By J. Wolfgang Von Goethe. Transl. Into English Verse, By Jonathan Birch, Esq., ... Embellished With Forty Engrav. On Steel, By John Brain, after Moritz Retszch
Faust : A Tragedy, In Two Parts, The First Part / By J. Wolfgang Von Goethe. Transl. Into English Verse, By Jonathan Birch, Esq., ... Embellished With Forty Engrav. On Steel, By John Brain, after Moritz Retszch ; P. 1 (P. 1) (1)
Faust : A Tragedy, In Two Parts, The Second Part / By J. Wolfgang Von Goethe. Transl. Into English Verse, By Jonathan Birch, Esq., ... Embellished With Forty Engrav. On Steel, By John Brain, after Moritz Retszch ; P. 2 (P. 2) (1
Original Fables with Morals and Ethical Index. Also a Translation of Plutarch's Banquet of the Seven Sages. (Spine: "Original Fables")
No full textWe have three copies of the 1833 first edition in our collection, published by Hamilton, Adams, and Co. Here is the 1834 edition, published by Effingham Wilson, Cornhill. The printer is the same for both volumes. This edition does add at the very beginning a short advertisement and four pages of (positive) "criticism." From there on the books are internally identical. After an introduction, the book begins with an "Ethical Index," listing titles and morals. A new fable comes every four pages. First there is an illustration about 2½" x 3½" in size centered on the left-hand page. Then come, on the next two pages, number, title, narrative, moral (usually longer than the narrative), and perhaps a vignette. A blank right-hand page follows. The Cruickshank illustrations are often very nice. An example is the illustration for Fable VI, "The Bee, the Spider, and the Tomtit" (42). In the fable, the Tomtit overhears the other two arguing about their building skills, especially relative to their mathematical skills in constructing hive and web, respectively. The Tomtit intrudes himself to praise his nests, and the other bursts into laughter. The illustration is wonderfully precise. Many of the vignettes are delightful; a good example is that for "Aesop and the Libertine" (48). Another vignette has a man reeling from a woman who has removed her make-up mask (68). One might take this book as a sample of the taste of the Eighteenth Century. The long morals regularly take up social, political, and religious questions. We read, e.g., a tribute on 52 to public schools over private tuition, for in the former "the boy, surrounded by his equals, soon finds out the necessity of curbing passion and suppressing sauciness." "The Hog and the Goat" (59) focuses on misplaced admiration of either obesity or starvation. For yet another example of the taste of the time, try "The Traveller and the Gnat" (119). One of these new fables that I find particularly engaging is "The Yard-Dog and the Fox" (99). The fox lures the over-zealous watchdog into the woods and then doubles back to plunder the farm. The fable has a good illustration and a good vignette. Many of the fables suffer, I believe, from a sort of prethought didacticism. This R. Cruickshank apparently has nothing to do with the famous George Cruickshank, who lived from 1792 to 1878 and illustrated "The Toothache." There is an AI at the back, which also lists the engraver for each illustration. It is followed by a translation of Plutarch's "The Banquet of the Seven Sages."Second edition(Monogram=) Job Crithannah (Jonathan Birch
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
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
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