This document reports on the discussions and results of the Workshop on Tool Criticism in the Digital Humanities, that took place on May 22, 2015 in Pand 020, Amsterdam. The workshop was co-organized by Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, the eHumanities group of KNAW and the Amsterdam Data Science Center.

With the recent publication of the DSM 5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, 5th edition), a fresh round of criticism of this nomenclature and of psychiatric disorders in general comes forth, as it does every time a new edition is published. This criticism ranges from ‘‘disease mongering’’ and inventing new illnesses while pathologizing normal behavior (e...

I analyze here Benacerraf’s criticism of Thomson arguments on the impossibility of ω-supertasks. Although Benacerraf’s criticism is well founded, his analysis of Thomson’s lamp is incomplete. In fact, it is possible to consider a new line of argument, which Benacerraf only incidentally considered, based on the functioning laws of the lamp. This argument leads to a contradictory result that comp...

Peer review and citation analysis are the two most common approaches for quality evaluations of scientific publications, although they are subject to criticism for various reasons. This paper outlines the problems of citation analysis and peer review and introduces Collaborative Document Evaluation as a supplement or possibly even a substitute. Collaborative Document Evaluation aims to enable t...

Peer review and citation analysis are the two most common approaches for quality evaluations of scientific publications, although they are subject to criticism for various reasons. This paper outlines the problems of citation analysis and peer review and introduces Collaborative Document Evaluation as a supplement or possibly even a substitute. Collaborative Document Evaluation aims to enable t...

PAGE INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 General applications of the theory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 Mathematics of path coefficients. ................................................. 243 Definitions. ............

Five separate studies examined the associations of self-criticism and self-oriented perfectionism with goal pursuit across a variety of domains. Although self-criticism has previously been shown to be related to diminished goal progress, a controversy remains regarding the potential association between aspects of "positive perfectionism," such as self-oriented perfectionism, and enhanced goal p...

In the Federal Republic of Germany, the accident involvement of elderly drivers to date is low, corresponding to their low traffic participation. With a definite increase in the number of elderly drivers in the near future frequent adverse effects on traffic safety are expected. Particularly age changes in vision and reaction ability are considered to be important. Compared to a representative ...