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Introduction
No full textThe introduction presents the philosophical problem of vagueness and offers brief introductions to the volume's contributions. The presentations of the volume's contributions is divided by thematic areas so that the reader can have a better understanding of the place of each contribution wirh respect the debate on vagueness
Truth-relativists can't trump moral progress
No full textThe paper argues that truth-relativists can't make sense of the idea of moral progress, not even by resorting to the notion of trumping
Knowledge and Justification
No full textThis special issue contains some prominent contributions on the theory of knowledge, the problem of scepticism and of peer disagreement
Skepticism and Justification
No full textThis special issue of Synthese, titled "Skepticism and justification", contains a substantial Introduction (by Coliva, Moruzzi and Volpe), and 9 papers on topics researched by Coliva, Pritchard, Wedgwood, Avnur, Volpe, Dodd, Millar, Gerken, Kallestrup
Basic disagreement, basic contextualism and basic relativism
Full text linkThe paper shows how basic forms of semantic contextualism and of alethic relativism cannot account for an intuitive and straightforward notion of disagreement, which characterizes those disputes of inclination that have been claimed to be better accounted for by those theories
MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF PHYTOPLASMA STRAINS ASSOCIATED WITH EPIDEMICS OF CHICORY PHYLLODY
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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
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