| 书目名称 | The Incentivised University |
| 副标题 | Scientific Revolutio |
| 编辑 | Seán Mfundza Muller |
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| 概述 | Brings together a critical philosophy of scientific progress and its consequences, with a critique of institutional dynamics of modern higher education.Demonstrates how a number of fundamental debates |
| 丛书名称 | Debating Higher Education: Philosophical Perspectives |
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| 描述 | .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 |
| 出版日期 | Book 2021 |
| 关键词 | Incentive structures in higher education; Pursuit of truth; Academic inquiry; Philosophy of economics; H |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84447-9 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-84449-3 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-84447-9Series ISSN 2366-2573 Series E-ISSN 2366-2581 |
| issn_series | 2366-2573 |
| copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 |
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