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On Technological Innovation, Inequality, Regulations and Governance: An Interview with Roger Brownsword | Sobre inovação tecnológica, desigualdade, regulação e governança: Uma entrevista com Roger Brownsword
No full textIn this eighth interview in the series conducted by the Research Group on Transhumanism and Human Bioenhancement (GIFT-H+/CNPq), we have the precious opportunity of interviewing Professor Roger Brownsword, one of the leading experts on technological regulation and governance. We asked him about the impacts of technological innovation and the possibilities of regulating and governing it. We focus on the role and limits of laws in this fundamental process for societies profoundly influenced by rapid technological progress.Nesta oitava entrevista da série realizada pelo Grupo de Investigações Filosóficas sobre Transhumanismo e Biomelhoramento Humano (GIFT-H+/CNPq), temos a preciosa oportunidade de entrevistar o Professor Roger Brownsword, um dos maiores especialistas em direito, regulação e governança tecnológica. Perguntamos a ele sobre os impactos da inovação tecnológica e as possibilidades de regulá-la e governá-la. Focalizamos o papel e os limites das leis nesse processo fundamental para as sociedades profundamente influenciadas pelo rápido avanço tecnológico
On Technological Innovation, Inequality, Regulations and Governance: A Interview with Roger Brownsword
Full text linkIn this eighth interview in the series conducted by the Research Group on Transhumanism and Human Bioenhancement (GIFT-H+/CNPq), we have the precious opportunity of interviewing Professor Roger Brownsword, one of the leading experts on technological regulation and governance. We asked him about the impacts of technological innovation and the possibilities of regulating and governing it. We focus on the role and limits of laws in this fundamental process for societies profoundly influenced by rapid technological progress
Les implications de la théorie du droit naturel en sociologie du droit
No full textDeryck Beyleveld and Roger Brownsword investigate whether the post-modern challenge can be resisted by means of a hermeneutic /internal perspective on law, which is foundationless in the sense that it does not resort to a collectivist. We, such as the People or Society. While law consiste of many institutions, its practice comprises intersecting individual actions. We do not need to fly from collective objectivity and legitimacy into the absolute void. Gewirth 's principle of generic consistency (act in accordance with the generic rights of others as well as of yourself) provides a rational basis for a morally neutral hermeneutic of individual legal actions.Deryck Beyleveld et Roger Bronsword examinent dans cet article si le défi post-moderniste peut opposer une résistance à une perspective interne/herméneutique du droit, qui est sans fondement du fait qu'elle ne recoure pas à un Nous collectiviste tel que le Peuple ou la Société. Tandis que le droit se compose de plusieurs institutions, sa pratique est un entrecroisement de plusieurs actions individuelles. Inutile d'abandonner une objectivité et une légitimité collectives pour le néant absolu. Le principe de Gewirth d'une consistance générique (actions individuelles en accord avec les droits génériques des autres) constitue une base rationnelle pour une herméneutique moralement neutre des actions juridiques individuelles.Beyleveld Deryck, Brownsword Roger. Les implications de la théorie du droit naturel en sociologie du droit. In: Droit et société, n°13, 1989. Lumières, Révolution, Post-modernisme. pp. 389-414
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
The Universal Declaration of the Human Genome and Human Rights : UNESCO's contribution to the development of the universal law of bioethics
No full textDefence date: 1 July 2008Examining Board : Prof. Francioni Francesco (Supervisor, European University Institute); Prof. Giovanni Sartor (European University Institute); Prof. Roger Brownsword (King's College London); Prof. Judit Sandor (Central European University)No abstract availabl
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
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
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