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Le possibilità del pensiero tra libertà politica, sfera pubblica e ricerca della verità: Hannah Arendt e Alasdair MacIntyre a confronto
Full text linkI claim a reasoned confrontation, however limited to a reduced number of subjects, between MacIntyre’s and Hanna Arendt’s thought to contribute to the understanding of what in the Scottish thinker ́s work should be kept or also valued. In order to do that, I will focus mainly on the reasons why Arendt never accepted that a real or supposed return to any philosophical tradition could solve all the problems brought up by modern subjectivism and perspectivism, summarized in the consideration that modernity was the occasion in which occidental philosophy made a substantive dismissal of common sense also of that action in public sphere that was essential to the Greek Classical thinking, and that is also on the grounds of European comprehension of a politics construed on the deliberative model
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
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
La resistenza imperfetta: ipseità, coscienza di sé e sfide situazionali
No full textIl saggio intende tracciare le linee di un modello filosofico di ipseità che colleghi coscienza di sé e influenze situazionali. Seguendo un percorso che si snoda attraverso l'esame delle teorie sull'identità personale e sulla coscienza di Locke, Hume, Ricoeur, Parfit e Dennett, e grazie a una considerazione attenta dei risultati raggiunti nel campo delle ricerche psicologiche sulle relazioni tra comportamento individuale e influenze situazionali, Scardovi adotta una concezione non eliminativistica dell'ipseità, ricordandone piuttosto la complessità e la mobilità, frutti di un continuo gioco di relazioni fra mente-corpo e ambiente, un gioco in larga misura incontrollato, eppure capace di produrre anche movimenti riflessivi e gerarchicamente ordinati
Oltre l'oggettività: il concetto di valore intrinseco in George E. Moore
No full textPrendendo in esame il saggio di G.E. Moore, The Conception of Intrinsic Value, questo articolo tratta delle specificità e dei limiti del tentativo mooreano di evitare ogni riduzione del valore morale intrinseco alla sfera extra-morale. Attraverso l'analisi della dottrina mooreana del valore morale, nell'articolo si arrivano a discutere anche aspetti rilevanti della concezione ontologica di Moore, del suo uso del cosiddetto metodo dell'isolamento e della nozione di esatta similarità
Emotivismo e norm-expressivism a confronto: elementi di una proposta metaetica non-cognitivistica
No full textAttraverso un confronto delle posizioni dei filosofi Charles L. Stevenson e Allan Gibbard, nel saggio si avanza una proposta teorica relativa ai modelli di lavoro adottabili nella ricerca sui fenomeni della moralità umana, in particolare nella ricerca sui suoi fondamenti. Questa proposta si colloca sulla linea delle metaetiche non-cognitivistiche e non manca di tenere conto del contributo che l'antropologia culturale e la primatologia possono offrire all'opera di chiarimento di un dibattito filosofico in pieno svolgimento
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