Bibliographic record
Abstract
JoshuaHeld's excellent "keyword study of 'conscience' " comprises two interrelated themes, the one substantiating the other.First, Held aims to tell the story of the concept's transformation over the course of the early modern period from an internal "mental faculty" into an external political principle-that is, into what first becomes an overstated, albeit "highly contested, " right, and then, a little later, a chastened, more moderate, "carefully regulated privilege" (1).This story of rise and consolidation is for Held driven by his second theme, the dialectic between two forms of conscience, what he calls "bold" and "coward" conscience.By the latter, Held means the internal check, arbiter, or "prick of conscience" that accuses the individual of wrongdoing and so often produces self-loathing or, he feels, inhibits action.By "bold conscience" he means the way that same inner moral arbiter equally often provides the kind of certainty that overwhelms diffidence and demands action-that is, the way it transforms moral conviction from an inner feeling into an outward expression of such self-confidence, force, or vehemence that it either subsumes or simply rejects the constraints of this-worldly authority, whether it be church or state.In both stories, the internal becomes the external, the private the political.Facilitating this intellectual transformation is, of course, the technology of print and what will come to be called the "print market" ( 14).While the book focuses on three of the period's greatest English poets-Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton-it bookends their thinking with chapters on Luther and John Locke.Bold Conscience is distinguished not only by its learning, desire for rigour, and clarity of exposition but also by the imaginative way it establishes a series of surprisingly effective intertextual, print-enabled patterns.While some of the book's distinctions are open to question, its general mode of interrogation and analysis is always stimulating.Held begins with an analysis of Luther.In the West's cultural imaginary, nothing exemplifies the turn to individualism as powerfully as Luther's stand at the Diet of Worms in 1521.Against enormous pressure to submit to the communal authority of the church, Luther
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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".