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Frege\u27s Logic
No full textPresents a new reading of Frege\u27s two-dimensional notation, and of the development of his notion of a logical language. --author-supplied descriptio
Diagrammatic Reasoning in Euclid\u27s Elements
No full textA quite detailed account of how diagrammatic reasoning works in Euclid, the role of definitions, postulates, and common notions, the nature of generality involved, and the precise role that diagrams play in demonstrations. --author-supplied descriptio
Inferentialism and Holistic Role Abstraction in the Telling of Tales
No full textCritical discussion of the motivation for and key themes of Brandom\u27s \u27Tales of the Mighty Dead: Essays in the History of Intentionality\u27 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002). --author-supplied descriptio
Reading Begriffsschrift
No full textA short introduction to central themes of \u27Frege\u27s Logic\u27. This essay is to be reprinted in the volume \u27Essays from the Harvard Review of Philosophy\u27, ed. S. Phineas Upham (Open Court, 2006). --author-supplied descriptio
Seeing How It Goes: Paper-and-Pencil Reasoning in Mathematical Practice
No full textThis essay began as a faculty research talk and compares three forms of paper-and-pencil reasoning in mathematics, both what they share and how they differ. I have discussed each of the three forms of reasoning in other essays but only here bring those discussions together so as to compare them. --author-supplied descriptio
Sartre, Shakespeare and and the Theater of Identity: An Inquiry Concerning the Self, Sado-Masochism, and Drama
No full textReading Rorty: A Sketch of a Plan
No full textThis paper, initially written for a conference on Rorty\u27s work, was invited as part of the launching of this new journal. In it I discuss themes in Rorty and Plato\u27s Theaetetus concerning truth and knowledge, and argue in particular that just as there are three quite different levels of discourse in the Theaetetus so we need to recognize that there are three analogous levels of discourse in Rorty\u27s discussions of truth. --author-supplied descriptio
Empathy, Sentimental Education, and Restorative Justice: Providing a Larger Participatory Role for Victims in the American Criminal Justice System
No full textResearch on crime victims and their experiences within the American criminal justice system suggests that victims can be unjustly harmed throughout the criminal justice process. I argue that this results from victims' lack of a participatory role in the criminal justice process. Restorative justice initiatives have emerged in response to this issue, but have failed to make significant improvements. In an effort to understand why these current restorative initiatives are insufficient, three approaches of restorative justice are considered in light of two different groups of victims-–victims of sexual and domestic violence, and bereaved victims. This consideration suggests that in order to respond to the unjust harm of victims, restorative values must be woven into the criminal justice process. I claim that in an effort to remain fair and just our criminal justice system has inadvertently treated victims as less than rational, and therefore less than human, by marginalizing them within the criminal justice process. A solution would begin with a conceptual shift regarding the value of sentiments in a legal context and the re-articulation of objectivity. Through sentimental education, empathy and restorative values can begin to be woven into the criminal justice system, allowing us to adequately address the needs of victims and their larger participatory role within the criminal justice process
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
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