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Scientific Realism and the Contingency of the History of Science
No full textIn section 2 I will reconstruct the antirealist motivations of the
classic contingentist scenarios developed by James Cushing and by Andrew Pickering;
in section 3, by taking into account some versions of scientific realism that are more
sophisticated than those discussed by contingentists up to now, I will clarify the logical
relations of compatibility and incompatibility existing between contingentism and
inevitabilism on the one hand, and scientific realism and antirealism on the other; in
Section 4 I will try to spell out the specific contribution of contingentist historical
reconstructions to the critique of scientific realism; finally, in Section 5, I will
recapitulate the results of the article and argue that the conflict between contingentist
antirealism and scientific realism can be seen as a clash of inferences based on
interpretations of the history of science. This article will thus consist of a philosophical
meta-analysis of a controversy existing between different meta-scientific investigations
‘A Hellish Knot of Witches’: a regional approach to early-modern witchcraft beliefs and accusations in and around Selwood Forest
No full textList of publications submitted in the order published 1) Pickering, Andrew, ‘Witchcraft and evidence in a seventeenth century Somerset parish’, The Local Historian: Journal of the British Association for Local History, Volume 48, Number 1, January 2018, 30-40. 2) Pickering, Andrew, ‘Great News from the West of England: witchcraft and strange vomiting in a Somerset village’, Magic, Witchcraft and Ritual (University of Pennsylvania), Volume 13, Issue 1, Spring 2018, 70-97. 3) Pickering, Andrew, ‘The Devil’s Cloyster: putting Selwood Forest on England’s seventeenth-century witchcraft map’, in Nate, R., and Wiedemann J. (eds.), Remembering Places: Perspectives from Scholarship and the Arts (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt: Königshausen & Neumann, 2019), 35-54. 4) Pickering, Andrew, The Witches of Selwood: Witchcraft Belief and Accusation in Seventeenth-Century Somerset (Gloucester: The Hobnob Press, 2021)
Andrew Pickering
No full textWhat does it mean to be an academic? A public intellectual? What is the role of the universities today? Who better to ask than the people who for decades have worked, taught, struggled and lived in these places. Andrew Pickering is Professor Emeritus at the University of Exeter and has been a leading figure in the sociological study of science since its beginnings in the 1970s. He has been interested in the history of quantum physics and cybernetics among other subjects, and in this book you can read about his journey through these fields. In the Questions & Afthoughts series you will meet some of the finest and most distinguished senior professors—you will meet living history. They are interviewed by young graduate students, who are eager to learn from past experiences of trial and error in academia, both professionally and personally
Father Andrew Mullen 1790-1818: a study in early nineteenth century spirituality
No full textThis thesis is laid out in three parts: Part I. The life and death of Andrew Mullen. The life is based, to a large extent, on a long letter to his mother, Catherine Mullen, dated 7 January 1810. The letter gives a definite insight into his spirituality based on his membership of the Archconfraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. There is a hint that he had a premonition of an early death. Part II. The burial of Andrew Mullen and the immediate cult to him This is based on documentary evidence. Part III. Most of this part is a catalogue of testimonies taken from 1993 onwards. Then there is the conclusion on the popular devotion to Andrew Mullen stressing the theological aspect of the subject. In the course of writing the thesis it was decided to separate the documentary evidence from the oral tradition. This was advantageous in developing the thesis, and the documents provided a secure basis for the oral tradition. Two pieces of information were found in March 1997. They are death notices: 2 January 1819, The Leinster Journal and 7 January 1819, The Car low Morning Post. There is a slight discrepancy between the two on the date of his death. Also this discrepancy shows a slight difference from the date of the tombstone
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 – Supplemental material for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct
No full textSupplemental material, author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct by George Wood, Daria Roithmayr and Andrew V. Papachristos in Socius</p
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Impacts of hunter-gatherers on the vegetation history of the eastern vale of pickering, Yorkshire
No full textResearch is undertaken into the vegetation and human impact at three previously un-researched archaeological sites from the eastern Vale of Pickering. The vegetation history is reconstructed from the end of the Windermere Interstadial c. 13,000 (^14)C yr BP until the final Mesolithic c. 5100 (^14)C yr BP. The early Mesolithic human impact on the vegetation is assessed using a three stage statistical test to establish the internal variability in the data as well as background variations in pollen output. The results reveal that humans had a small but significant impact on the vegetation around two of the sites. Pollen preservation at the third site precluded analyses of the impacts of humans on the vegetation. The three-stage test used to test for human impact was quite successful but requires revision before any further use. On the whole the tests confirmed the findings of conventional human impact analyses. During the pre-Holocene fires occurred on a regular basis. These fires varied in location and intensity, suggesting that some of the fires were regional or large-scale, whilst others were small and very localized. A multi-causal explanation has been given for the fires. Later, during the early Mesolithic, human groups are thought to have burnt the reedswamp at the lake edges as part of an economic strategy. Star Carr is the only site that demonstrates clearance of significant areas of woodland. During the later Mesolithic the hunter-gatherers have a greater impact on the vegetation within the Vale. This is attributed to the need for more resources as a result of vegetation change and increased population levels. Unlike their counter-parts from the North York Moors, the occupants of the lowland Vale of Pickering cause no long-term change to their environment
Data for: Polarization and Corruption in America
No full textData used in the submission 'Polarization and Corruption in America' by Melki and Pickerin
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