Category Archives: Quantitative methods

Practices and Malpractices. What the Analysis of Retractions can Tell us about the Research Ethos of the Humanities

Posted on May 18, 2020 by DR2 Turin Group

By Eugenio Petrovich In the last decades, the number of retractions of scientific articles has significantly grown in all disciplines (Steen et al., 2013). Even prestigious journals such as Science are not immune to such growth (Wray & Andersen, 2018). … Continue reading →

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DR2-INTERVIEWS: Interview with Peter De Bolla

Posted on May 4, 2020 by DR2 Turin Group

With this interview we open the series of the “DR2-Interviews”, a new section of this blog dedicated to questions and answers about the use of quantitative methods. A few months ago one of our members, Paolo Babbiotti, was in Cambridge … Continue reading →

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Analytic philosophy and the later Wittgensteinian Tradition

Posted on February 24, 2020 by DR2 Turin Group

Paolo Tripodi’s book Analytic Philosophy and the Later Wittgensteinian Tradition has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan in the History of Analytic Philosophy series edited by Mike Beaney. Here is the cover:   And here the back cover: This book aims … Continue reading →

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