Bibliographic record
Abstract
Perspective assembles fourteen of the late M. A. 'Sandy' Stewart's previously published essays centered on David Hume's life and philosophical thought.The original essays appeared in a range of publications, first released during the twenty-year period 1985 to 2005.Michael Alexander Stewart was Honorary Research Professor in the History of Philosophy at Lancaster and Aberdeen universities and Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.He secured a leading place in Hume historiography and -as a John Locke scholar, among other things -Enlightenment studies more generally.The project of bringing Stewart's Humean essays together from their disparate origins and packaging them conveniently between two covers and in an e-book version, is a useful one for Hume scholars, old, new, and future.What will they find?The editors have chosen their essays well, for the most part, and have produced an impressive selection of Stewart's Hume-related works.Rather than offering facsimile reproductions of the originals, each essay has been reset.An 'Introduction', signed by Harris and Wright, offers brief summaries of each of the book's chapters.These are presented not in the order in which they were first published but thematically.We move from summaries and surveys, like an encyclopedia entry on Hume and an essay on his place in the Scottish Enlightenment; to seminal studies of Hume's intellectual development, his relationship to Stoicism, and to the Kirk; focused pieces on Hume's first Enquiry, eighteenth-century academic freedom, and Hume's manuscripts; then chapters setting Hume's thought in relation to Locke and George Berkeley, exploring Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, and his treatment of miracles; and, finally, a set of chapters on the reception of Hume's writings.It is an
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.002 |
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".