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Abstract
russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies n.s. (winter –): – The Bertrand Russell Research Centre, McMaster U. issn –; online – c:\users\ken\documents\type\red \rj red.docx -- : Reviews RUSSELL’S LIFE, LEGACY AND WORK Stefan Andersson stefankarlandersson@live.com Peter Stone, ed. Bertrand Russell’s Life and Legacy. Foreword by Tony Simpson . (Vernon Series in Philosophy.) Wilmington, de: Vernon P., . Pp. xvii, . isbn: ----. us$ (hb), us$ (pb), e-book $. eter Stone has been a member of the Bertrand Russell Society for over twenty years and recently served as its Vice President. His latest contribution to Russell studies, Bertrand Russell’s Life and Legacy, is an interesting collection of essays that consists of nine articles divided into four parts plus a foreword by Tony Simpson, who is the current head of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. In his foreword Simpson quotes from Russell’s statement on the Middle East dated January , which was read on February, the day after Bertrand Russell’s death, to an International Conference of Parliamentarians meeting in Cairo. Since I came to know and befriend International Law jurist Richard Falk, who served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation in Palestine between and and have since read many of his books and articles plus sat in on several courses at Lund University on the conflict between the Israeli Government and the Palestinians, I am glad that Simpson brought up this topic. I am impressed by how sharp-sighted Russell was up to the end of a long life committed to political activism for peace and justice. When Russell said: “The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was ‘given’ by a foreign Power to another people for the creation of a new State”,1 he pointed to the root of the problem. If Russell had been alive today, he would have condemned the recent killing of Jews in Pittsburgh, but even more lamented the murder of hundreds of unarmed young Palestinians protesting the Israeli’s Government’s policy and its Defence Forces’ enforcement of that policy. All his life Russell was a supporter of the underdog, and it is good to be able to listen to his cries for justice beyond the grave. 1 The Spokesman, no. (April ): . P Reviews c:\users\ken\documents\type\red \rj red.docx -- : The title of Life and Legacy is so encompassing that it is hard to exclude Russell’s work itself. This is particularly true for the articles in the second part, “Russell’s Philosophical World”, but also for the editor’s own contribution “Philosophical Biography Reconsidered”. I will return to this in dealing with Stone’s essay. The first part, “Russell the Man”, consists of two articles. The first “An Affair Remembered: Bertrand Russell and Joan Follwell, –”, which is by Eileen O’Mara Walsh and deals with her mother’s—Joan Follwell O’Mara’s—brief affair with Russell. Walsh published her own memoirs, The Third Daughter, in . In light of what has been revealed by the #MeToo movement, it is not more than fair that Russell’s many “affairs” should be scrutinized and evaluated. Although I have no reason to believe that Russell ever forced himself on any woman, there is still room for some unbiased reflections regarding the difference between using one’s position as a famous and influential person to help others in their careers and liberate them from outdated moral standards, and misusing it, even according to one’s own moral principles, which might create a painful sense of guilt and shame, which is often eased by equal portions of forgetting, repression, denial and inventing “alternative facts”. Russell’s relationship with women, and how he documented his experiences of them and talked about them, have always interested me. I include his two grandmothers, his mother, sister and paternal aunt plus his daughter, Katharine, who had four boys and one daughter,2 and his other three granddaughters that his first son, John, “blessed” him with, although one of them 2 During my year at Harvard Divinity School in –, I met Katharine alone a couple of times, since she lived close by the school...
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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 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.003 |
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".