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School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

FacilityVillejuif, France
About: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences is a facility organization based out in Villejuif, France. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Politics. The organization has 1230 authors who have published 2084 publications receiving 57740 citations. The organization is also known as: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales & EHESS.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the evaluative process as a practical judgment that links a situation to a set of values in order to decide upon a course of action, which is close to insights of John Dewey.
Abstract: What does evaluation mean? This paper studies the evaluative process as a practical judgment that links a situation to a set of values in order to decide upon a course of action. In the first part, the article follows Sen’s account of an evaluative process. His critique of the monist, deductive and idealist theory of Rawls leads to a “relational” and “comparative” approach of the evaluation. Incompletedness, comparison, reality and deliberation are the key principles of this methodology. This is close to insights of John Dewey. Nevertheless, Dewey grasps the pragmatic dimension of the process more precisely then Sen. He firstly makes the distinction between prizing and appraisal, valuation and evaluation. And secondly, the singular situation is underlined as a component of any evaluation. Therefore, evaluation requires empirical inquiry and public deliberation. In a third step, the article focuses on the relationship between evaluation and norms in practical judgments. As explained in the paper, norms are close to, but different from, values. As horizons or constrains, norms contribute to the framing of evaluations. In short, evaluation is a complex process linking prizing and appraisal, situated deliberation, values and norms. Any reduction to a single dimension should mislead the practical judgment, as shown on the example of the evaluation of work.

22 citations

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TL;DR: A multidisciplinary investigation combining archaeological and palaeoecological approaches (pollen, micro-charcoal, major elements geochemistry, and radiocarbon data) has been carried out since 2000 in the southern Cantal (French Massif Central) in order to achieve a better understanding of the environmental/anthropogenic interactions in a mountain ecosystem ranging from 1000 to 1600m a.s.l..

22 citations

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27 Aug 2012
TL;DR: A protocol for characterising the referencing process in the context of general article editing is introduced, showing that referencing does not occur regularly through an article's lifetime but is associated with periods of more substantial editing, when the article has reached a certain level of maturity.
Abstract: The extent to which a Wikipedia article refers to external sources to substantiate its content can be seen as a measure of its externally invoked authority. We introduce a protocol for characterising the referencing process in the context of general article editing. With a sample of relatively mature articles, we show that referencing does not occur regularly through an article's lifetime but is associated with periods of more substantial editing, when the article has reached a certain level of maturity (in terms of the number of times it has been revised and its length). References also tend to be contributed by editors who have contributed more frequently and more substantially to an article, suggesting that a subset of more qualified or committed editors may exist for each article.

22 citations

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TL;DR: In Simulating minds, Goldman discusses with great care and subtlety a wide variety of experimental results related to mindreading from cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology, social psychology and developmental psychology.
Abstract: The philosophical world is indebted to Alvin Goldman for a number of reasons, and among them, his defense of the relevance of cognitive science for philosophy of mind. In Simulating minds, Goldman discusses with great care and subtlety a wide variety of experimental results related to mindreading from cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology, social psychology and developmental psychology. No philosopher has done more to display the resourcefulness of mental simulation. I am sympathetic with much of the general direction of Goldman’s theory. I agree with him that mindreading is not a single system based on a single mechanism. And I admire his attempt to bring together the cognitive neuroscientific discovery of mirror system phenomena and the philosophical account of pretense within a unique theoretical framework of mental simulation. To do so, Goldman distinguishes two types of mindreading, respectively, based on low-level and high-level simulation. Yet, I wonder in what sense they are really two distinct processes. Here, I will confine myself largely to spelling out a series of points that take issue with the distinction between low-level and high-level mindreading.

22 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Philippe Aghion12250773438
Andrew J. Martin8481936203
Jean-Jacques Laffont8333232930
Jonathan Grainger7832919719
Jacques Mehler7818823493
James S. Wright7751423684
Thomas Piketty6925136227
Dan Sperber6720732068
Arthur M. Jacobs6726014636
Jacques Mairesse6631020539
Andrew E. Clark6531828819
François Bourguignon6328718250
Emmanuel Dupoux6326714315
Marc Barthelemy6121525783
Pierre-André Chiappori6123018206
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202318
2022134
2021121
2020149
2019119
2018118