Bibliographic record
Abstract
Rorty has a distinctive stance in the contemporary philosophical world. It is one that is often described as “antirealist,” “relativist,” “subjectivist,” including by myself. But Rorty repudiates such labels. His point rather is that we should get away from a number of philosophical dichotomies that have supposedly outlived their usefulness; we should learn that we can lay them to rest, that they add nothing of value to our thought. Somewhat overmodestly describing himself with the Lockean term “underlaborer,” he sees himself as “clean[ing] up and dispos[ing] of what [great] imaginative pioneers [e.g., Frege and Mill, Russell and Heidegger, Dewey and Habermas, Davidson and Derrida] have shown to be rubbish” (TP 8). Now Rorty and I have an old debate going. This is the n th round; I have lost count. But what seems constant throughout is an agreed-upon basis – that we both see ourselves as getting out from under the Cartesian, representational epistemology – and within this a difference. This latter might be put in the following way: that for Rorty we escape from “the collapsed circus tent of epistemology – those acres of canvas under which many of our colleagues still thrash aimlessly about” (TP, 93), mainly by getting rid of certain traditional distinctions and questions: for example, the scheme–content way of talking or the issue of correspondence with reality; while I think that these distinctions and questions have to be recast.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.004 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".