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Nick Thompson <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2021 3:34 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] academia as a market of ideas 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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > On Behalf Of jon zingale > Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2021 1:37 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[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 <http://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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