Continental Philosophy in Britain and America
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Continental, or as it is sometimes called, contemporary European philosophy represents a range of approaches to academic philosophy distinguished from the analytic modality dominating professional or institutional philosophy in the United Kingdom and in the United States, as in Australia, Canada, and Ireland. Where the analytic tradition itself may be said to trace its own roots to Europe, e.g., positivism may be traced to France and its originator August Comte, and logical empiricism to Germany and to Austria and the writings of Gottlob Frege and Ludwig Wittgenstein and the members of the Vienna Circle, continental philosophy expresses an ideological tradition or style of philosophical thinking rather than a geographical distinction.\nThe exposition uses specific authors to review the main traditions within continental philosophy, beginning with phenomenology (Husserl) and hermeneutic phenomenology (Heidegger) but also existentialism (Sartre and de Beauvoir as well as Jaspers) as central to classical continental philosophy. The exposition also includes hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur), aesthetics (Merleau-Ponty), ethics (Levinas, Weil), and even the philosophy of science (Kockelmans, Heelan). Contemporary areas of interest and vitality in distal and sometimes incommensurate connection to this classical tradition range from critical theory (Habermas) to structuralism and poststructuralism (Levi-Straus, Deleuze, Lacan), including deconstruction (Derrida) and the postmodernism that is increasingly out of vogue.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it