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Philosophical Apprenticeships: Contemporary Continental Philosophy in Canada

2009· book· en· 0 citations· W2618374040 on OpenAlex· 10.1353/book4439

Why is this work in the frame?

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

About CanadaIts subject is Canada, wherever its authors sit.

No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame — the usual design — would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

The three-model screen

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1 of 3 models called this metaresearch. This work is contested: it sits on the field's empirical boundary, and whether it counts depends on which model you asked. It is one of the 51 works in the disagreement dossier.

stratum: about_only · design weight: 3321.24 (the sample is stratified; any rate computed without the weight is wrong)
Claude Opus 4.8T2
genre: conceptual
about Canada: yes
confidence: low

No abstract; the book appears to document the formation and trajectory of the contemporary continental philosophy community in Canada through scholars' apprenticeships, which would make Canadian academic careers and a discipline's development the object, but the title alone cannot settle it.

GPT-5.6 (high)OUT
genre: conceptual
about Canada: no
confidence: low

The title suggests a work about philosophy in Canada, but the missing abstract prevents ruling out a study of the research field.

Grok 4.5OUT
genre: other
about Canada: no
confidence: medium

Book on continental philosophy in Canada; intellectual history/philosophy scene, not contemporary research practice as object.

Abstract

No abstract. This is not a gap in this database — OpenAlex has none either. 23.3% of the frame is in this state, and the screen finds HALF as much metaresearch here, so the absence is a measured bias rather than a missing field.

The record

Venue
University of Ottawa Press eBooks
Topic
Political Philosophy and Ethics
Field
Social Sciences
Canadian institutions
Funders
Keywords
ApprenticeshipContinental philosophyEpistemologyPhilosophyGeographyArchaeology
Has abstract in OpenAlex
no