Bibliographic record
Abstract
mong nine loose-leaf folders of typed transcriptions of Russell's History of Western Philosophy lectures at the Barnes Foundation 1 are two copies of a fourteen-page stenographic record of a political talk he gave there on March . 2 The bulk of this significant new accrual to the Russell Archives, bearing as it does on Russell's most successful philosophical work, could stimulate much further research and textual study.But his isolated Barnes lecture, about the politics of American neutrality, Nazi Germany's brutal and expansionist dictatorship, and the causes and possible consequences of the war against it, is also of considerable interest.The transcription reads more like detailed notes than a verbatim account, and there is no evidence that Russell approved this text.3 The stenographer initially recorded Russell in the third person, dispensed with this device before the second 1 ra Rec.Acq.,, comprising over , pages; see Whittle and Blackwell, "Recent Acquisitions, -" (), p. .Russell was fortuitously employed by this institute (then located in Merion, Pennsylvania) after his City College of New York appointment was blocked.On the gradual souring of his relations with its founder, Albert C. Barnes, the chemist, businessman, art collector and educator who hired then fired Russell and was successfully sued by him, see Auto.: -. 2 The typed ribbon copy of Russell's address is in Binder of the Barnes material, filed between transcriptions of the philosophy lectures given on February and March .Its identical carbon is near the front of Binder a, after two mounted clippings from Philadelphia newspapers about Russell's inaugural lecture at the Foundation (on January ).Both typed documents were prepared on the recto sides only of fourteen leaves measuring × mm. and hole-punched for placement in the small three-ringed leather binders.3 Square brackets enclose two editorial emendations on pp. and .
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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 | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.055 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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 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".