Historicizing the comparative survey of freedom: tracing the social trajectory of an influential indicator [0.03%]
从历史视角考察自由的比较调查——追踪一项有影响力的指标的社会轨迹
Emily Zerndt
Emily Zerndt
The Comparative Survey of Freedom, first published by Freedom House in 1973, is now the most widely used indicator of democracy by both academics and the U.S. government alike. However, literature examining the Survey's origins is virtually...
Paulo Ravecca
Paulo Ravecca
The study examines the trajectory of Uruguayan Political Science (PS) from a critical theory perspective. Concretely, the article focuses on PS' institutional birth and early period (1980s and 1990s) and shows how broader political and ideo...
Thibaud Boncourt,Paulo Ravecca
Thibaud Boncourt
Physiology and philhellenism in the late nineteenth century: The self-fashioning of Emil du Bois-Reymond [0.03%]
晚十九世纪的生理学和希腊爱好者主义：埃米尔·杜·布瓦·雷蒙的个性塑造
Lea Beiermann,Elisabeth Wesseling
Lea Beiermann
Nineteenth-century Prussia was deeply entrenched in philhellenism, which affected the ideological framework of its public institutions. At Berlin's Friedrich Wilhelm University, philhellenism provided the rationale for a persistent elevatio...
The procedure of the Section of Pieces of Areas in Li Ye and Yang Hui's works: genealogy of diagrams and equations [0.03%]
李冶和杨辉作品中的“求割圆术”的步骤：图表与方程的系谱
Charlotte-V Pollet
Charlotte-V Pollet
The study of algebra in China has often focused on the algebraic "procedure of the Celestial Source." Its geometrical ancestors are less known. The Yigu yanduan, authored by Li Ye (1192-1279), presents the procedure alongside its two geomet...
Practices of reasoning: persuasion and refutation in a seventeenth-century Chinese mathematical treatise of "linear algebra" [0.03%]
推理的实践：“线性代数”在十七世纪中国数学论著中的说服与反驳
Jiang-Ping Jeff Chen
Jiang-Ping Jeff Chen
This article documents the reasoning in a mathematical work by Mei Wending, one of the most prolific mathematicians in seventeenth-century China. Based on an analysis of the mathematical content, we present Mei's systematic treatment of thi...
Reconsidering the ignorabimus: du Bois-Reymond and the hard problem of consciousness [0.03%]
重新审视不可知论：杜布瓦-雷蒙与意识的难题问题
Paolo Pecere
Paolo Pecere
In this paper I present an interpretation of du Bois-Reymond's thesis on the impossibility of a scientific explanation of consciousness and of its present importance. I reconsider du Bois-Reymond's speech "On the limits of natural science" ...
Tim Winzler
Tim Winzler
The article takes as its starting point the relationship of academic economists and the wider society. First, various bodies of literature that deal empirically with this matter are discussed: epistemologically, they range from a bold struc...
Matthias Aistleitner,Jakob Kapeller,Stefan Steinerberger
Matthias Aistleitner
In this paper we comparatively explore three claims concerning the disciplinary character of economics by means of citation analysis. The three claims under study are: (1) economics exhibits strong forms of institutional stratification and,...
On the evolution of the glass ceiling in Italian academia: the case of economics [0.03%]
意大利学术界的玻璃天花板进化：经济学案例分析
Marcella Corsi,Carlo D&#x;Ippoliti,Giulia Zacchia
Marcella Corsi
Following an international trend, Italy has reformed its university system, especially concerning methods and tools for research evaluation, which are increasingly focused on a number of bibliometric indexes. To study the effects of these c...