Why do Different Ways of Categorising Populism Matter? A Reply to Scanni, Andrew Reid| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
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
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
The main thrust of my reflections in “The Contemporary Research University: Freedom and Force” (2024) can be summarized as follows. The epistemological intuition behind the justification for academic autonomy for faculty offered in Hormio and Reijula’s “Universities as Anarchic Knowledge Institutions” (2023) is sound: “as a rule, plurality of thought is more likely to generate new ideas and solutions than cognitive monism” (Rider 2024). In my critical remarks, however, I implici...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective