Thomas J. McPartland . Lonergan and Historiography: The Epistemological Philosophy of History . Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2010. Pp. x, 214. $44.95.
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Abstract
The Canadian philosopher and Jesuit priest Bernard Lonergan (1904–1984) played a key role in twentieth‐century Catholic theology. A professor at Boston College and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome during crucial times of change for the historical awareness of Catholicism as well as the author of fundamental works for the methodology of theological work, Lonergan prepared Catholic theology for an encounter with modern science (Insight: A Study of Human Understanding [1957]) and with modern social sciences (Method in Theology [1972]). In order to understand Lonergan it is important to analyze his view of history, as we now can do with this book on Lonergan as a philosopher of history, or better, a philosopher of historiography. Thomas J. McPartland introduces us to the key concepts of Lonergan's view of historiography. First, McPartland discusses the “horizon of the questioner”: Lonergan defines this horizon as a “concrete synthesis of concrete...
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".