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L'identità come relazione e le sue espressioni. Conversazioni a due voci a partire da Frege.
Full text linkIl trattamento dell'identità proposto da Gottlob Frege in ambito aritmetico è stato applicato in molti campi della filosofia del linguaggio con particolare attenzione ai problemi del riferimento e dell'ontologia
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
Pragmatism as Antirepresentationalism?
No full textRichard Rorty's suggestion that American Pragmatism be characterized by its endorsement of an antirepresantationalist conception of the contents of our thoughts is critically discussed with reference to the works of Donald Davidso and Robert Brandom. Rorty's preference goes both to Brandom's Inferentialism and to Davidson's truth-conditional approach to language and interpretation, but these two conceptions are at odds with each other. The author suggests that antirepresentationalism is not incompatible with an allegiance to pragmatism, and that a better conception of the content of our utterances which pays close in attention to context and semantic underdetermination can incorporate representationalist claims without inccurring Rorty's criticisms. The author argues that the clash between Pragmatism and Metaphysical Realism, and that moderate representationalism can go hand in hand with pragmatism
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
On Sense, Tone, and Accompanying Thoughts
No full textThe paper deals with Frege's distinction between sense and colouring or tone as applied both to proper names and to compound sentences. It argues that Frege's way of drawing this distinction is unsatisfactory, much for the same reasons as Grice's theory of conventional implicature is a non starter. The author suggests that tone may contributes to assertoric content depending on contextually specified circumstances. The phenomenon of linguistic underdetermination is very widespread, and tone is only the tip of an iceberg that we need to explore more fully.
The paper deals with Frege's notions of sense and tone within the framework of recent theories of contextualism, literalism and multi-dimensionalism. Dummett's account of Frege's account of sense is reviewed and extended. The author suggests that tone differs from sense only as regards a higher degree of undeterdeterminationa and occasion sensitivity. Tone contributes to assertoric content, and differs from conventional implicatures, as described by Paul Grice and his followers
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
Wittgenstein und Frege über Eigennamen und das Kontextprinzip
No full textThe paper discusses the bearing of Frege's and Wittgenstein's interpretations of the Context Principle on the use of proper names. It is argued that the later Wittgenstein, unlike the author of the Tractatus, has many interesting things to say on the use of proper names that are not at variance with Frege's views. If we bear in mind the paramount importance of context in communication we may come to see Frege's and Wittgenstein's observations on the fluctuating meaning of proper names in a new perspective
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