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¿Para qué queremos la libertad religiosa?
Get PDFEn el presente trabajo el autor aborda la cuestión de la importancia de la libertad religiosa. Se desarrolla brevemente por qué el tema de la libertad religiosa y de conciencia debería ser motivo de interés tanto para los religiosos como para los que no se interesan en la religión. En este sentido, se presentan tres argumentos en defensa de la importancia de la libertad religiosa de todos los individuos. En primer lugar, se remarca el rol de la libertad religiosa como fundamento histórico para los derechos constitucionales, políticos, civiles y humanos. Sin la libertad de religión y de convicciones, todo el proyecto de derechos humanos puede colapsar bajo su propio peso. En segundo lugar, se sostiene que la libertad de religión y de convicciones es necesaria si se pretende resistir el estatismo y otras visiones monísticas del poder estatal. Finalmente, el autor sugiere que posiblemente no tengamos los recursos intelectuales, políticos o retóricos necesarios para defender la conciencia si no respetamos y protegemos la libertad de religión y de convicciones.In this paper, the author addresses the question of the importance of religious freedom. The work develops briefly why religious freedom and freedom of conscience should be a matter of interest for both religious people, as well as for those who are not interested in religion. In this sense, three arguments in defense of the importance of the religious freedom of all individuals are offered. In the first place, it is addressed the role of religious freedom as a historical foundation for constitutional, political, civil and human rights. Without freedom of religion and belief, all the human rights project can collapse under its weight. Secondly, it is stated that the freedom of religion and belief is necessary to resist statism and other monistic visions of state power. Finally, in the third place, the author suggests that we may not have the intellectual, political or rhetorical resources needed to defend conscience if we do not respect and protect the freedom of religion and convictions
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Human dignity and constitutional spatial theory: towards an Australian framework for the resolution of conflicts in equality rights and religious liberties claims
Get PDFThis thesis seeks to resolve a particular problem in the Australian human rights regime—the conflict between the legal right to equal treatment and the conscientious claim to a right to refuse equal treatment. A right may be claimed to discriminate in respect of protected attributes in exception to the legal right to equality. The problem arises when vendors of goods or services claim that as a manifestation of their religious liberty, they have the right to refuse to deal with customers who possess a protected attribute because to do so would offend their conscientiously-held objections in relation to that attribute. Whether and how such a right should be granted in diminution of the right to equal treatment thus creates a problem. Despite legislation and litigation seeking some form of balance between liberty and equality, the problem remains unresolved and appears incapable of resolution. The only solution suggested to date has been the creation of further exceptions and ad hoc exemptions to equality laws permitting discrimination in cases where the conscience is impinged. An ideal solution to the problem should be guided by sufficiently clear principles that avoids the need to call upon the legislature for amendments to cater for new categories of conscientious objection or for the courts to resolve ongoing interpretational disputes. Solutions that require either ongoing legislative amendment or judicial intervention are unlikely to provide an efficient, durable, workable solution to the problem. Can religious freedom be protected in Australia without the need for the continual creation of conscientious exceptions to equality laws? And, if so, under what theoretical framework? The answer to the first question is ‘yes’. In answer to the second, a theoretical framework is to be found in ‘constitutional spatial theory’, the elements of which are outlined in the thesis. The principal element, human dignity, is all but completely absent in the Australian regime. This thesis argues that the need to provide for ongoing exceptions and exemptions can be overcome. Introducing a concept of ‘constitutional space’ would provide the missing principled rationale by limitation of rights and freedoms to their allocated spaces, avoiding encroachment upon other rights. It would also break the current mendicant cycle of advocacy, begging for a place for religious freedom in the current paradigm of exemptions. The resolution is presented in four stages to produce a novel system for dealing with human rights in Australia and resolving the conflict identified in respect of religious freedom: 1. The first stage is the formulation of a hypothesis that there can be a theoretical framework, not previously applied to the problem in Australia, involving the constitutional spatial theory and the principle of human dignity, which can be tested in three ways. 2. The second stage is the first test of the hypothesis—namely, whether such a theory can be formulated. 3. The third stage is the second test of the hypothesis—namely, whether the theory can embrace human dignity as a part of its resolution of the problem. 4. The fourth stage is the third test of the hypothesis—namely, whether the theory, embracing human dignity, can provide, first, a constitutional space for religious freedom and, secondly, a durable solution to the problem without creating exceptions and ad hoc exemptions to equality laws for conscience. The thesis presents a novel framework. That framework, first, enshrines human dignity as the dominant and guiding principle; secondly, it guarantees rights by a constitutionally entrenched bill of rights, creating a new constitutional space for religious freedom; and thirdly, it finally resolves the clash of discrimination and equality by the invocation of the Hohfeldian rights theory.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Law, 202
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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