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The Incentivised University - Scientific Revolutions, Policies, Consequences (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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The Incentivised University - Scientific Revolutions, Policies, Consequences (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives, 9
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The core thesis of this book is that to understand the implications
of incentive structures in modern higher education, we require a
deeper understanding of associated issues in the philosophy of
science. Significant public and philanthropic resources are
directed towards various forms of research in the hope of
addressing key societal problems. That view, and the associated
allocation of resources, relies on the assumption that academic
research will tend towards finding truth - or at least selecting
the best approximations of it. The present book builds on, and
extends, contributions in philosophy and higher education to argue
that this assumption is misplaced: with serious implications for
modern higher education and its role in informing societal
decisions and government policy. The book develops a philosophical
foundation for the analysis of the connection between higher
education incentives, scientific progress and societal outcomes.
That in turn is used to demonstrate how the current approach to
incentivising intellectual and scientific progress is likely not
only to fail, but in fact to cause harm on the very dimensions it
purports to improve. The arguments presented are illustrated with
examples from medicine and academic economics, making the book one
of the first to examine issues of scientific progress and social
consequences across the human and social sciences. In doing so, it
develops a novel critique of modern economics that in turn provides
a more philosophically substantive foundation for popular critiques
of economics than has existed to date.
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