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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Assessing impact » Testing hypotheses…
Steven Hill (@stevenhill), Head of Research Policy at the Higher Education Funding Council for England, responds to a recent publication by Steven Hrotic and me here: Assessing impact » Testing hypotheses…. Here is the original publication, which is available open … Continue reading
Paying Obeisance to the Tribe
One might imagine that thinking about inter- and transdisciplinarity would require a wide acquaintance with the world, e.g., one part philosophy, another policy studies; some historical perspective, some understanding of how science works; some educational theory and a smattering of … Continue reading
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The Value of Disinterestedness
Disinterestedness as an ideology within the natural sciences — described as ‘curiosity-based research’ — serves to protect the natural scientists from the social consequences of his discoveries. Disinterestedness as an ideology in the social sciences seeks to inoculate the social … Continue reading
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Proceduralism and the Absence of Courage
From Rawls: “Pure procedural justice obtains when there is no independent criterion for the right result: instead there is a correct or fair procedure such that the outcome is likewise correct or fair, whatever it is, provided that the procedure … Continue reading
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Why Philosophy is Hopeless Today
So, let me tell you about the absurd. I’m at a conference on the philosophy of technology. I’m at a plenary. A big shot (who I have never heard of, but that does not say much anymore) is at the … Continue reading
IITs of India
An interesting read: on the leading universities of India.
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The Humanities, Declining? Not According to the Numbers. – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education
There’s only one problem with those insistent accounts of the decline of the humanities in undergraduate education: They are wrong. Factually, stubbornly, determinedly wrong. The Humanities, Declining? Not According to the Numbers. – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of … Continue reading
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Opinion: Mind the Measures | The Scientist Magazine®.
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