[FRIAM] academia as a market of ideas

[Frank Wimberly]

Does ResearchGate offer anything like a currency with all its stats
regarding publications and their reads, research interest, citations, etc?

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On Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 2:29 PM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <gepropella at gmail.com> 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, thompnickson2 at gmail.com 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
> > ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
> > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
> >
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> > Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2021 1:37 PM
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> >
> > 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?
>
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