The incentivised university: scientific revolutions, policies, consequences / Seán Mfundza Muller.
Muller, Seán Mfundza, author.
2021
LB2322.2
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Title The incentivised university: scientific revolutions, policies, consequences / Seán Mfundza Muller.
Author Muller, Seán Mfundza, author.
ISBN 9783030844479 (electronic bk.)
3030844471 (electronic bk.)
3030844463
9783030844462
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84447-9
Publication Details Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-84447-9 doi
Call Number LB2322.2
Dewey Decimal Classification 378.001
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 7, 2022).
Series Debating Higher Education ; v. 9
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I: Truth-seeking and Scientific Progress
Chapter 2. What is at Stake: Higher Education for Society
Chapter 3. The Dynamics of Scientific Progress
Chapter 4. Philosophy of Science with Consequences
Part II: The Dangers of Normal Science and Academic Consensus
Chapter 5. The Existence and Dangers of Normal Science
Chapter 6. The Dynamics of Consensus and Academic Communities
Part III Incentives in Modern Higher Education and Their Distortionary Consequences
Chapter 7. From Accountability to Managerialism and Incentives
Chapter 8. Incentive Mechanisms in Modern Higher Education
Chapter 9. Research Impact and Incredible Certitude
Chapter 10. Rewarding Normal Pseudoscience and Facsimile Science
Chapter 11. Economics, Facsimile Science and Societal Harm
Part IV: Variation Across Contexts
Chapter 12. Variation Across Disciplines, Societies and Institutions
Chapter 13. Epistemic Hierarchies, Decolonisation and the Periphery
Part V: Conclusion
Chapter 14. Scientific Revolutions Will Not Be Incentivised
Index.

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