Our starting point in “Universities as Anarchic Knowledge Institutions” (2024) is that research universities can appear to be inefficient organisations, in need of management reforms and strategic streamlining from outside forces. Despite appearances, we argue that this image usually holds only if we try to view research universities through the prism of some other type of organisation, like a business corporation. Historically, this is a relatively new idea: as Krücken and Meier (2006) ...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Säde Hormio and Samuli Reijula have formulated a rather novel defense of a certain form of academic freedom,[1] arguing that the threat of dysfunctional inefficiency posed by intramural squabbling and…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
A few months ago, during the question and answer session of one of her talks, I had the chance to ask noted feminist philosopher of science Helen Longino her thoughts on why there is not as much…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective