MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W2416053921 · doi:10.1057/9780230510715_4

New Materialism, Nonlinear Biology, and the Superabundance of Diversity

2004· book-chapter· en· W2416053921 on OpenAlexaff
Myra J. Hird

Bibliographic record

VenuePalgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2004
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPhilosophy and History of Science
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMaterialismConformityDiversity (politics)Similarity (geometry)EpistemologyShadow (psychology)Agency (philosophy)SociologySocial psychologyPsychologyPsychoanalysisPhilosophy

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

There are a series of dualities in academia so persistent as to have the appearance of philosophical immortality: agency versus structure in sociology; nature versus nurture in psychology; good versus evil in religion and philosophy; and the public versus private in political theory.In Chapter 2, 1 borrowed Matt Ridley’s observation that “similarity is the shadow of difference: difference is the shadow of similarity” (2003: 7), to make the point that it is equally plausible to discuss “sex” similarity as it is to discuss “sex” difference; that we might argue for the relative strength of one factor or the other, but that both factors constitute sides of the same proverbial coin. In this chapter, I want to examine another duality that persists, explicitly or implicitly, throughout the literature on evolutionary theory: conformity versus diversity. Here, I refer to conformity as a conservative quality in the extent to which the morphology and behavior of living organisms are confined by law-like parameters dictated by nature. In contrast, diversity refers to the extent to which morphology and behavior express a wide range of characteristics produced through the principle of variation. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.998
Threshold uncertainty score0.026

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.019
Scholarly communication0.0040.006
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

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 head0.039
GPT teacher head0.223
Teacher spread0.183 · 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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

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".

Quick stats

Citations2
Published2004
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

Explore more

Same venuePalgrave Macmillan UK eBooksSame topicPhilosophy and History of ScienceFrench-language works237,207