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Morality of action, reflexivity and the relational subject
No full textSince the time of Aristotle, traditional ethics has imputed the morality of action to the ‘acting subject’ on the basis of a principle of linear causality. Over time and, in particular, with the advent of the modern social sciences, the social, economic, and cultural conditioning weighing on the subject have been evidenced. The result has been to attribute moral responsibility to a ‘conditioned subject’, one that is constrained by existing societal structures (including so called ‘unjust laws’). The globalization of society changes the epistemological frame because the importance of systems of interdependence increases at the expense of functional systems. Moral responsibility encounters a process of morphogenesis such that, as a result, it becomes real only if it makes reference to a ‘relational subject’ constituted by the network of participants. The subject, acting in a societal network, is required to know and configure this network ‘relationally’. Ethics is required to make itself relational, in the sense that the attribution of responsibility for acting for good or ill cannot be limited to a single act, but invokes the reflexivity of subjects and of social processes that take place in networks of relations. The morality of action must make reference to the reflexive awareness that subjects have of how good and evil are produced by social relations and consist of social relations within increasingly complex causal networks. The ethics of intention is no longer sufficient. It must be integrated with an ethics of responsibility that is not restricted to the direct consequences of individual acts, but also takes into account the indirect consequences of relational networks
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
What Do We Know about the Economic Situation of Women, and What Does It Mean for a Just Economy?
No full textThe economic situation of women today provides a critical test of the efficiency and justice of our economic system. A true account of the role of women in the contemporary world includes acknowledging enormous disparities and close interdependence among continents, as in the case of the “global care chain,” where poor women from developing nations travel to wealthy nations to care for the children of well-to-do families in order to send money home to care for their own children. It also requires addressing questions about women’s empowerment and dignity, whose answers pertain to the sphere of relationships, perceptions, expectations, and beliefs. It is curious to observe widespread consensus about the essential role of women and families in economic and social development and yet so little reflection (let alone dialogue) on what it truly means to be a woman, or a family. Christian anthropology provides the basis for a convincing, and convenient, way to explore what “true” flourishing of women and society means. The first part of this chapter offers a broad review of consensus indicators and empirical findings concerning women’s economic situation, in both medium-high and low income countries. They provide a helpful map of poverty and inequality faced by women, but they seem unable to answer essential questions about the true situation of women. The second part of this paper explores the issues of efficiency and justice faced by women in a framework where generative actions occupy a central role. It reviews current lines of economic research about measuring well being and societal progress “beyond GDP,” and suggests going beyond the measurement of women’s “missing” GDP and rethinking the nature of the “care” economy. In particular, it critically assesses the notion of women’s empowerment, suggesting human dignity as more appropriate. The paper elaborates the idea that “generation” is at the heart of wealth creation, suggesting an inter-temporal, relational paradigm, where “true” development of persons and societies requires a generative dynamism driven by free personal actions that gratuitously circulate “received” gifts
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
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