Name: The Incentivised University: Scientific Revolutions, Policies, Consequences (en Inglés)
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Author: Muller, Seán Mfundza
ISBN: 9783030844493

portada The Incentivised University: Scientific Revolutions, Policies, Consequences (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Seán Mfundza Muller

Editorial

Springer

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

226

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.4 x 15.6 x 1.3 cm

Peso

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9783030844493

Categorías

Sociedad y cultura general
Teoría de la educación
Educación superior

The Incentivised University: Scientific Revolutions, Policies, Consequences (en Inglés)

Seán Mfundza Muller (Autor) · Springer · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The Incentivised University: Scientific Revolutions, Policies, Consequences (en Inglés)"

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.