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Bloom, Allan (1930–92)

2014· other· en· W1549284765 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Paul A. Cantor

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Encyclopedia of Political Thought · 2014
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical Theory and Influence
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNihilismSOCRATESHistoricismRelativismPoliticsPhilosophyPolitical philosophyArt historyEpistemologyClassicsEnvironmental ethicsHistoryLawPolitical science

Abstract

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Abstract Allan Bloom was a political theorist, who developed many of his ideas in the course of commentary on the history of political philosophy, from Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle to Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. He was educated at the University of Chicago, where he was chiefly influenced by Leo Strauss. He taught at Yale, Cornell, the University of Toronto, and, finally, the University of Chicago, where he became the first John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor. Throughout his career, he worked to revive the ancient understanding of political phenomena as a legitimate alternative to modern thinking, while offering a critical analysis of contemporary movements such as historicism, relativism, and nihilism.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.645
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.003
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.308
Teacher spread0.293 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2014
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