Does ResearchGate offer anything like a currency with all its stats regarding publications and their reads, research interest, citations, etc?
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 2:29 PM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <[email protected]> wrote: > IDK, my joke response earlier was intended to say that I can't parse > "market of ideas". A market requires some common measure (e.g. currency) to > which everything is reduced and with which the things are bought and sold. > If it's a market, what is that measure? You could make an argument that the > measure need not be a reduction ... like some sort of barter. But there > would still need to be some commonality, perhaps a language like English. > And my guess is each idea domain has its own jargon, which implies the > domains would all need to be inter-translatable ... and that would require > some discussion of how isomorphic the languages are. > > I'd argue part of why Nick thinks Sober is a tourist is because their > languages don't match very well. Hence, either it's not a market or these 2 > traders are bad at trading ... or somesuch. > > On 2/18/21 12:44 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > I would think the metaphor is quite precise, since the same force that > > distorts a commercial market place -- accrued power -- also distorts an > > academic one. I guess you might say -- I might say -- that when Sober > > publishes in a behavior journal, he is using his power in one domain -- > > philosophy of biology -- to tour in another. To make that case I would > > have to show that the argument he makes is not only shabby in behavioral > > terms, but no reason to claim that behavioral presuppositions are > > inconsistent with more general principles of science. A heavy lift? > > > > Nick Thompson > > [email protected] > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of jon zingale > > Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2021 1:37 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Watch Mars landing this afternoon > > > > Speaking of efficiency, to what extent is it fair to consider academia an > > efficient market of ideas? To the degree that it is, would this justify > > conceptual tourism? > > -- > ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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