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On how practical identities form a successful guide for practical deliberation : unification and exploration as ideal
Full text linkAbstract: Once in a while we find ourselves in a situation in which we do not know what to do. Examples of such situations are easily found, you may be conflicted between going home on time to bring your kids to bed and having drinks with colleagues; you may be confused about whether you want to continue your relationship and on what terms; you may be uncertain about your commitment to your career. If we find ourselves in such situations, we naturally want to escape this state of \u201cnot knowing what to do.\u201d This dissertation focuses on how we can overcome, through practical deliberation, a specific source of \u201cnot knowing what to do:\u201d volitional disunity
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
Die Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention: Gemeinsamer Mindeststandard oder Vollharmonisierung des Grundrechtsschutzes in Europa?
No full textDie Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention (EMRK) kennt einzelne Garantien wie das Folterverbot, die einen absoluten, materiellen Mindeststandard festschreiben. Viel häufiger werden ihre Mindeststandards jedoch relativ, durch Abwägung, bestimmt, so etwa bei der Meinungs- und der Religionsfreiheit. Dabei besteht die Gefahr einer Vollharmonisierung, die besonders groß wird, wenn der Europäische Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte (EGMR) in Dreieckskonstellationen widerstreitende Individualrechtspositionen abwägt. Dem sucht der EGMR auf der verfahrensrechtlichen Ebene mit der Einräumung von Beurteilungsspielräumen auszuweichen, was allerdings materielle Maßstäbe manchmal bis zur Beliebigkeit aufzulösen droht, wenn der EGMR beispielsweise das Verbot der Vollverschleierung im öffentlichen Raum trotz schwerer Bedenken hinnimmt. Am Ende steht der Verzicht auf materielle gemeineuropäische Mindeststandards, wenn der EGMR nur noch landesspezifische Maßstäbe zu bestimmen versucht, wie es bei der Forderung nach Anerkennung einer eingetragenen Partnerschaft für gleichgeschlechtliche Paare in Italien geschehen ist
Transcendental Arguments for a Categorical Imperative as Arguments from Agential Self-Understanding
Full text linkThis chapter construes Kant’s contention that a categorical imperative is a synthetic a priori principle as equivalent to Gewirth’s claim that such an imperative is a dialectically necessary principle (a strict requirement of agential self-understanding). It is not concerned to defend either Kant’s or Gewirth’s argument for a categorical imperative, but to elucidate the “dialectically necessary method” (which rests on the dialectical necessity of a principle making it categorically binding) and to defend this method against David Enoch’s critique of “constitutivism” (taken as trying to show that transcendental arguments for morality, construed as dialectically necessary ones, are futile, even if they can be successful, because normativity cannot be constituted in dialectical necessity). In the process, it relates the dialectically necessary method to internalism, naturalism, foundationalism, coherentism, and realism
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