<div dir="auto">Does ResearchGate offer anything like a currency with all its stats regarding publications and their reads, research interest, citations, etc?<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 18, 2021, 2:29 PM u\u01ddl\u0183 \u2199\u2199\u2199 <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com">gepropella@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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. <br>
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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.<br>
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On 2/18/21 12:44 PM, <a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
> I would think the metaphor is quite precise, since the same force that<br>
> distorts a commercial market place -- accrued power -- also distorts an<br>
> academic one. I guess you might say -- I might say -- that when Sober<br>
> publishes in a behavior journal, he is using his power in one domain --<br>
> philosophy of biology -- to tour in another. To make that case I would<br>
> have to show that the argument he makes is not only shabby in behavioral<br>
> terms, but no reason to claim that behavioral presuppositions are<br>
> inconsistent with more general principles of science. A heavy lift?<br>
> <br>
> Nick Thompson<br>
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> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2021 1:37 PM<br>
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> Speaking of efficiency, to what extent is it fair to consider academia an<br>
> efficient market of ideas? To the degree that it is, would this justify<br>
> conceptual tourism?<br>
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