Is “cross-cultural #philosophy” meaningful in a global academic monoculture? http://waywardphilosophy.com/the-hard-cross-cultural-problem/ … by @willbuckingham
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Replying to @Meaningness
University culture—with the partial exception of STEM—has become so dysfunctional that most worthwhile thinking has to be done outside it.
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Thinking is expensive. It takes many person-years to generate any worthwhile new idea. How can we find new ways to fund original thought?
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We need new kinds of institutions for thinking; new ways of collaborating, new funding mechanisms, new social structures.
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@Meaningness this was the original impetus for universities, then later, think tanks. Trick is balancing incentives to prevent corruption!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@davidmanheim Yes to all of those points! Universities seem to be past the point of no return, though. And they suck up most of the funding.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness any organization is capable of applying for the same grant or foundation money; if you demonstrate superior ROI, it could work.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness the problem is that no one had found / demonstrated a clearly superior coordination mechanism for research.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@davidmanheim Yes… I hope we can do so soon! (I’m not sure who “we” is :-)
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