Download or read book The Overproduction of Truth written by Gianfranco Pacchioni and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The way science is done has changed radically in recent years. Scientific research and institutions, which have long been characterized by passion, dedication and reliability, have increasingly less capacity for more ethical pursuits, and are pressed by hard market laws. From the vocation of a few, science has become the profession of many -- possibly too many. These trends come with consequences and risks, such as the rise in fraud, plagiarism, and in particular the sheer volume of scientific publications, often of little relevance. The solution? A slow approach with more emphasis on quality rather than quantity that will help us to rediscover the essential role of the responsible scientist. This work is a critical review and assessment of present-day policies and behavior in scientific production and publication. It touches on the tumultuous growth of scientific journals, in parallel with the growth of self-declared scientists over the world. The author's own reflections and experiences help us to understand the mechanisms of contemporary science. Along with personal reminiscences of times past, the author investigates the loopholes and hoaxes of pretend journals and nonexistent congresses, so common today in the scientific arena. The book also discusses the problems of bibliometric indices, which have resulted in large part from the above distortions of scientific life.
Download or read book The Overproduction of Truth written by Gianfranco Pacchioni and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The way science is done has changed radically in recent years. Scientific research and institutions, which have long been characterized by passion, dedication and reliability, have increasingly less capacity for more ethical pursuits, and are pressed by hard market laws. From the vocation of a few, science has become the profession of many — possibly too many. These trends come with consequences and risks, such as the rise in fraud, plagiarism, and in particular the sheer volume of scientific publications, often of little relevance. The solution? A slow approach with more emphasis on quality rather than quantity that will help us to rediscover the essential role of the responsible scientist. This work is a critical review and assessment of present-day policies and behavior in scientific production and publication. It touches on the tumultuous growth of scientific journals, in parallel with the growth of self-declared scientists over the world. The author's own reflections and experiences help us to understand the mechanisms of contemporary science. Along with personal reminiscences of times past, the author investigates the loopholes and hoaxes of pretend journals and nonexistent congresses, so common today in the scientific arena. The book also discusses the problems of bibliometric indices, which have resulted in large part from the above distortions of scientific life.
Download or read book The Responsible Methodologist written by Aaron M. Kuntz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aaron Kuntz challenges qualitative researchers to reconceptualize methodological work away from the technocratic toward an intervention for progressive social change. Inviting creativity and vision, and featuring studies that have incorporated these characteristics, he insists that the responsible methodologist become a force akin to parrhesia, Foucault’s risky truth-tellers.
Download or read book The Overproduction Trap in U S Agriculture written by Glenn Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book emphasizes resource use and efficiency in the agricultural sector and offers facts and analytical concepts of interest to welfare economists, sociologists, and agricultural policy makers. Originally published in 1972
Download or read book A Sociobiology Compendium written by Del Thiessen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novelist Joseph Conrad expressed a great truth when he said: "The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future," Our evolutionary history of noble acts and foul deeds, leading to survival and reproduction, guarantees that we understand the most essential facets of our physical and social environment. The nature of our struggles--our lusts, our fears, our objectivity, our irra-tionality--lies embedded in our cellular DNA and the neurons of our mind, there to play itself out much like it did in the past and much like it will in the future. Many have seen the links between our minds and the universe, the common thread of our existence and the inevitability of our loves and hates. This book includes many demonstrations that our nature has been on the minds and lips of many--poets, play-wrights, philosophers, historians, novelists, kings, slaves, religious leaders, and the great-est of knaves. From Ralph Waldo Emerson to Arthur Schopenhauer, from Aldous Huxley to Arthur Conan Doyle, from Aristotle to William Shakespeare, the truths about our-selves have come tumbling out. Reflecting on their thoughts we see ourselves. The universal nature of our being reflects our common origins and our bittersweet destiny. In A Sociobiology Compendium, Del Thiessen mines the richness of biological inves-tigations of human behavior, comparing current views of human behavior with expres-sions by non-scientists who have, in one way or another, touched the evolutionary strings of men and women. He begins each section with a brief account of biological notions of human behavior. The book shows in astonishing ways how the earlier thoughts of men and women from all cultures anticipate the biological observations about our being. A Sociobiology Compendium will be engaging reading for all psychologists, sociologists, and biologists.
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Download or read book Systems Theory VS Evolutionary Theory written by Adrian Moir and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Your interesting, carefully detailed manual about Systems Theory V.S Evolutionary Theory is original in the field. The subject is vividly and easily explained with examples that help the reader understand the peculiarities and insights described. All the aspects of interpreting the human conscience, morality and law, the evolutionary theory in society from a theological and scientific viewpoint. War, conspiracy, are classified in depth, with a simple and clear prose that leaves no doubts regarding the subject. The theological references are correctly placed, and provide crucial additional information for those who want to deepen the content. I think this manual will be very useful for your country’s readers and for European ones as well.” —Source: Ginevra Picani, Assignment Editor for Press House Europe Books Publishing Firm and Manuscript Reviews. The contents of this book is in relation to the subject of human equality with a strong focus on interpreting the human conscience, morality, and law. The book contains references to theological terms from the Holy Bible, as well as scientific references to systems theory and systems science. The book is intended to empower the individual with knowledge concerning the basic rights of a human being, whilst exploring the implications of the evolutionary theory in society from both a theological and scientific viewpoint. The book also contains references to quantum theory, war, conspiracy, the Holocaust, Communism, New Atheism, politics, nudity, sexual immorality, animal cruelty, hell and racism from a Christian perspective. This book is not recommended for individuals under the age of 18. All views within this book are within the spectrum of the law concerning freedom of speech, so as to not break the law, nor infringe upon a person’s basic rights as a human being.
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Download or read book The Denial of Death written by Ernest Becker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Denial of Death explores how people and cultures around the world have reacted to the concept of death from celebrated cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life’s work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker’s brilliant and impassioned answer to the “why” of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie—man’s refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates decades after its writing.
Download or read book Terror and Irish Modernism written by Jim Hansen and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-07-02 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a new genealogy and synoptic overview of modern Irish fiction.
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