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100,000 Articles - And The Data Scientists Who Mine Them - Bio-it World
Plos taxonomy
The PLOS Taxonomy consists of a thesaurus – the set of more than 10,000 terms and synonyms that are used as subject matter tags for PLOS articles – and the complex hierarchy by which those terms are organized. The whole system had to be custom-built for PLOS, thanks to the one…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Why the social sciences are possible
“We can have epistemically objective knowledge about money and elections even though the kinds of facts about which one has epistemically objective knowledge are themselves all ontologically subjective.” He points out that if epistemic objectivity did require ontological…
Eugene Garfield - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Eugene garfield and the beginning of the impact factor
Following ideas inspired by Vannevar Bush's famous 1945 article "As We May Think", Garfield undertook the development of a comprehensive citation index showing the propagation of scientific thinking; he started the Institute for Scientific Information in 1955. The creation of…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
Observer-independent and observer-relative features
There are two distinctions that I want you to be clear about at the very beginning, because they are essential for the argument and because the failure to understand them has led to massive philosophical confusion. The first is the distinction between those features of a world…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Goffman's dramaturgical sociology
one of the seminal theoretical exponents of the theatrical metaphor, the sociologist Erving Goffman. In his book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Goffman adopts the theatrical model as ‘one sociological perspective from which social life can be studied’.
Social life involves performance
Goffman appears to be either agnostic about, or indifferent to, the question of the reality of different selves. His interest was not essentially ontological, that is to say, concerned with the nature of being. It was primarily sociological, concerned with the nature of social…