Historiographic vices I. Logical attribution

Historiographic Metafiction

What we tend to call postmodernism in literature today is usually characterized by intense self-reflexivity and overtly parodic intertextuality. In fiction this means that it is usually metafiction that is equated with the postmodern. Given the scarcity of precise definitions of this problematic period designation, such an equation is often accepted without question. What I would like to argue ...

Word Vices

A logical analysis of responsibility attribution: emotions, individuals and collectives

The aim of this paper is to provide a logical analysis of the concept of responsibility attribution; that is, how agents ascribe responsibility about the consequences of actions, either to themselves or to other agents. The paper is divided in two parts. The first part investigates the importance of the concept of responsibility attribution for emotion theory in general and, in particular, for ...

The Vices of Argument

What should a virtue theory of argumentation say about fallacious reasoning? If good arguments are virtuous, then fallacies are vicious. Yet fallacies cannot just be identified with vices, since vices are dispositional properties of agents whereas fallacies are types of argument. Rather, if the normativity of good argumentation is explicable in terms of virtues, we should expect the wrongness o...

Historiographic Mapping of Knowledge Domains Literature

To better understand the topic of this colloquium, we have created a series of databases related to knowledge domains [dynamic systems (small world/Milgram), information visualization (Tufte), co-citation (Small), bibliographic coupling (Kessler), and scientometrics (Scientometrics)]. I have used a software package called HistCite which generates chronological maps of subject (topical) collecti...