Bibliographic record
Abstract
i first imagined writing this book when i enrolled as a graduate student in political philosophy. I was fascinated by the state as a form of political organization and was determined to dedicate my dissertation to it. The most fashionable stance in the literature at that time – in both political science and political philosophy – was to emphasize the contingent nature of the institution that interested me so much. The state, especially the modern state, was presented as the outcome of a particular history; namely, that of Western civilization during the last five centuries. The world to come, here went the influential tenet, would be one in which the state as we know it would vanish and make way for new forms of “global governance.” In this new era of post-sovereignty, the old Westphalian concepts familiar to us moderns would become unrecognizable. When I began writing this book, my primary intention was to defend a different view. I wished not to deny that the modern state was in some unquestionable way the contingent outcome of a historical process, but instead, to explore if in another sensible way, it could also result from some robust causes, inseparable from what we are as human beings. Modern political philosophers aspired to understand how the state – or civil society – was taking the human out of the state of nature. In contrast, my objective was to show how the state itself was a part of nature – of our nature.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.322 | 0.188 |
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".