Bibliographic record
Abstract
"Philosopher's Gong" Tony Simpson (bio) and Andrew G. Bone Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 112] Click for larger view View full resolution This silver relief medallion (diameter: 74 mm) was designed by eminent French sculptor and medallist Henri-Albert Lagriffoul (1907–1981), perhaps best known for his "Marianne" bust on centime coins of various denominations first struck in 1962. In sending Russell the copy now held by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, Paul Dehaye of France's Administration des Monnaies et Médailles indicated that the cast was "one of the very first" (14 Dec. 1966, ra2 710). It seems incongruous that even such a neutral arm of the French state as its mint was party to this tribute commissioned by the amateur Medallion Club of France. After all, Russell would shortly be barred by President de Gaulle from convening his Vietnam War Crimes Tribunal in France—the former colonial power in Indochina. In noting this prohibition, The Observer's "Pendennis" also commented sniffily that collectors could buy Lagriffoul's representation of "Britain's wisest fool" for c.30 shillings in bronze or c.£11 in silver ("Philosopher's Gong", 23 April 1967, p. 39). The obverse inscription commits the commonplace error of titling Russell not as a peer but as a younger son of a duke or marquess. The reverse translates from one of his 1918 prison letters: "I am free, and the world shall be [also]" (Auto. 2: 94). [End Page 113] Tony Simpson Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation tonysimpson@russfound.org Andrew G. Bone Russell Research Centre / McMaster U. bone@mcmaster.ca Tony Simpson tony simpson is director of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation and editor of The Spokesman. Copyright © 2024 Bertrand Russell Research Centre, McMaster University
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.627 | 0.358 |
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".