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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
The mathematical antinomies as instances of self description
No full textThis paper is a defense of a view that there are true propositions of the form 'P & P'. This version terms such propositions "antinomies" and tacitly defines them as the propositions which result when the essential conditions of certain kinds of systems are correctly predicated of these same systems. The antinomies, it is argued, have a meaningful content which truthfully relays the characterizing features and limits of the systems from which they can be derived. Using, as examples, the antinomies which can be derived from the Go?delean undecidable sentences, it is suggested that a completed collection of true propositions, which can be constructed from a consistent axiomatic system with a sufficiently broad capacity for semantic expression, present a collection which satisfies the Cantorian conditions required of "inconsistent multiplicities"
Chisholm on agency, freedom, and causation
No full textThis thesis is an investigation of Chisholm's three incompatibilist theories of agential freedom. After considering the faults and virtues of each, I conclude that the most defensible theory is that which includes the concept of primitive agent causation, i.e., agent causation as a basic kind of causation, not as a kind of event causation. I then defend this concept against various criticisms that have been directed at it over the years. Finally, since agent causalists in general, and Chisholm in particular, are all motivated by incompatibilist views of agential freedom, I defend this position against various compatibilist attacks. I conclude that Agent Causalism should be treated as a live option in any serious discussion of agential freedom
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
Animism, spirit and environmental activism
No full textThe first chapter presents Animism as a coherent foundational principle for environmental philosophy. Beginning with an examination of what spirit means to indigenous people, I offer a revision of classical animism, called "global animism". Three general principles constitute global animism: motion and transience, energy and connectivity, and a global life-seeking purposiveness, called The Will to Life. The second chapter explores how the Will to Life can mistake itself. Parasitism is the Will to Life in self-negating pathological disorder. Certain human activities must be characterized as parasitism, because of their destructiveness. An "activist sequence" explains why environmental activism, including and especially radical and confrontational activism, is a needed force to halt the destruction of the environment. Finally, a guiding ethical principle called the "activists' imperative" argues that we are called upon to disobey the demands of disordered social institutions. The environmental activist is a catalyst for the rectification of the disordered Will to Life
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
The search for an agricultural ethic
No full textPart One of this thesis examines the leading 'alternative model' to our current food system, ecological agriculture. I present ecological agriculture as radical and, as yet, incomplete. Overall, ecological agriculture judges that the practice of agriculture should be an exercise in constraint. I argue it is built on first principles, drawn from the study of wild ecosystems, that misconstrue the nature of agriculture and underestimate its potential contributions to society. Even more problematic, ecological agriculture is influenced by a preservationist ethic, which seems to undercut the imperative to produce that shapes the working landscapes of our planet. Part Two of this thesis tries to develop a second, and more satisfactory, 'alternative model' for agriculture by presenting a core of principles around which an agrarian model of agriculture can be elaborated. The first principle is the tripartite division of the environment, the notion that working landscapes are different from either built environments or wild places. This principle literally carves out places for the practice of agriculture in the environment, and it implies that we need a distinct ethic to guide our actions in such places. The second agrarian principle, presented as a theory of human nature, is an attempt to explore the content of this proposed agricultural ethic. Based on the idea that in working landscapes humans are neither conquerors nor plain citizens of the biotic community, it presents agriculture as a partnership between humans and nature, as a special dialectic which shapes both nature and culture. It is unique in the claim that through farming well, both the farm and the farmer are improved
Free trade as a normative concept
No full textThis thesis provides a concise historical mapping of the philosophical debate on free trade. Chapters one to three, respectively, examine the arguments furnished by Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Marx in favor of free trade. Chapter four examines current critiques of free trade by Vandana Shiva and John McMurtry, and the impact of free trade on countries of the Third World. The thesis concludes that free trade is morally harmful to the public good
Commentary on Maurice A. Finocchiaro’s "Meta-Argumentation in Hume’s Critique of the Design Argument"
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