Sally, Gene, & All, In relation to the "purpose of a university" and what's been happening to it lately, I earlier mentioned the themes of "academic capitalism" and the "war on science".
<JA 30 Aug 2011> I think it is reasonable to be concerned with distorting influences on research and scholarship, whether we find them in the sciences or in the other disciplines. Looking around, the conflicts of interest appear to grow more pushy and more pervasive every day. I'm thinking of cautionary tales like Slaughter and Leslie on Academic Capitalism, or Chris Mooney in "The Republican War on Science", just to name two that other contexts of discussion are constantly bringing to mind. But the question was: What to do about it? It appears that further inquiry is called for. </JA> Here is a paper that summarizes the issues of academic capitalism: Susan M. Awbrey, Making the 'Invisible Hand' Visible: The Case for Dialogue About Academic Capitalism http://www2.oakland.edu/oujournal/files/5_Awbrey.pdf I fear that the situation has grown far worse since the time that paper was written, but it depresses me too much to talk about it, so I'll just leave it at that until I recover some trace of hope. Regards, Jon -- facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache policy mic: www.policymic.com/profile/show?id=1110 inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ mwb: http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey knol: http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/3fkwvf69kridz/1 oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to [email protected] with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to [email protected]
