Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities (2014) by James Turner
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Abstract
The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities, I pictured a weathered and weary man roaming the streets of Greece, Italy, Germany, Britain, the United States, and so forth, frequenting every public and university library and bookstore he possibly could to accrue as much information to ensure that we, his readers, get the full story before it dissipates into the ether.I could imagine him in my mind's eye running from place to place to place to place, in the hopes that he could find all of the scrolls, all of the books, all of the parchments, and all of the texts that provide us with a firm and exhaustingly comprehensive understanding of how the humanities have progressed and regressed throughout the years.In my imagination, Turner is nervous, scared, and frightened by the future; he sees a consideration of historical context slowly ebbing away, and must make sure to feverishly research and write this discourse down before it is too late.In Philology, we follow alongside him on his arduous and fictional journey, and his noble venture is certainly worth the risks and sacrifices, as we see; but, by the end of it, we are very much like the weathered and weary man, ready for a nap.Turner, the Cavanaugh Professor of Humanities at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, in truth, provides a mind-blowing and thoroughly written examination of the now underappreciated discipline called philology, or "the multifaceted study of texts, languages, and the phenomenon of language itself" (p.ix).It is this form of research that, unbeknown to most, is the foundation of our current and contemporary understanding of the humanities, which essentially comprises of historicism, comparison, and genealogy, at least according to Turner.The issue, however, is that this most imperative form of study is no longer recognized by most of the college-educated American population.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 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 it