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Political Identity, Political Discourse and Philosophical Analysis
No full textThis chapter is an introduction to the concept of “political identity” and to its relevance for political discourse and for political philosophy. It distinguishes the political use of the expression by supporters of identitarian views from a technical sense, according to which political identity is the property of a polity to be itself and different from other polities. The chapter considers briefly how the issue of political identity, in the technical sense, is addressed by liberal approaches to politics and by post-structuralist approaches. The former deal with it by assuming that it coincides with national identity, but fail to explain the criteria of identity of a polity. The latter criticise identity politics for nourishing stereotypes, but fail to explain how the particularity of an individual can be spelled out without appealing to its identity. The chapter suggests that action theory, political philosophy and metaphysics in the analytic tradition jointly have the resources account for the concept of political identit
The Anthropological Bases of Political Identity
No full textThis chapter investigates the identity of humans, seen as active subjects who develop themselves by being involved in biological and cultural historical processes, which contribute to shaping their characteristics and their agencies. Historical processes connect individuals to groups through relations of formal identity. As a result, each individual has a multidimensional identity and relations with different groups. Political identity is one of the dimensions of the identity of an individual, on the basis of which the individual can be a member of a political community aiming at the common good. The chapter considers some political implications of this notion of political identity, concerning both the risks of populism and the political conditions of full human flourishing
Political Identity and the Metaphysics of Polities
No full textThe chapters in this volume clarify the notion of political identity by focusing on the metaphysics of polities. By analysing the notion of political identity, they provide the conceptual resources for a deeper understanding of the theoretical and practical debates on populism, the crisis of sovereignty, the feasibility of a world government, and ethical, religious, and cultural pluralism.
What is a political community? Any answer to this question lies at the intersection between three fields: metaphysics, philosophy of action, and political philosophy. The question concerns how and why a plurality of individuals becomes a political unity, what principles or forces keep that unity together, and what threats that unity can encounter. In this volume, the contributors investigate how different metanormative views affect the possible answers to this metaphysical question. They explore the role that the individual identities of agents play in grounding common practices that underpin political life. They investigate the individual identities of agents as the result of the interplay between natural and cultural factors. Finally, they observe the ways in which a political community, as a collection of individuals who hang together in an attempt to reach common purposes, demonstrate a certain metaphysical solidity.
Political Identity and the Metaphysics of Polities will appeal to researchers and advanced students working in metaphysics, political philosophy, political theory, and philosophy of action
Ficta and Amorphism: a Proposal for a Theory of Fictional Entities
No full textThe aim of this paper is to propose an exploratory artefactual theory of fctional
objects based on Evnine’s amorphism, with the goal of reconciling the inconsistent intuitions surrounding these entities. While not presenting a fully developed and
comprehensive theory, I aim to explore the possibilities of amorphism and to ofer
a preliminary investigation into the nature of fctional objects and the challenges
posed by our basic intuitions regarding their non-existence, creation, and property
attribution. I formulate a two-level criterion of identity-based on creative acts and
utilize the notion of internal predication to account for how fctional objects possess
the properties attributed to them in relevant stories. Additionally, I propose considering a subset of essential properties to fx the identity of fcta across stories. Lastly,
I address the challenge of negative existential statements by equating non-existence
with unreality, asserting that fctional objects are constituted by the properties attributed to them but do not fully exemplify them
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
Political Identity
No full textPolitical communities are objects, and objects are entities falling under a sortal concept. Substances are entities the identities of which do not depend on anything else but that determine the identity conditions of other non-substantial entities. Political communities are compound objects the identities of which depend somehow upon the identities of their parts; hence they are not substances. Human beings are substances and can be considered the constituents of a political community. Being part of a political community for a human being means being a citizen, namely, among other things, sharing some values and acquiring some habits that can be seen as a development of human nature. One important role in the development of the political identity of an individual is played by narratives as vehicles for the acquisition of those values and habits that contribute to defining the membership in a certain community. In this chapter, we investigate the relationship between political communities and their members, and we focus on narratives as a means, on the one hand, to mould political identity and, on the other, to make citizens virtuous
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