CfP: Research Policy: insights from Social Epistemology
DEADLINE: June
31, 2017 (issue on line expected December 2017)
"How
do we best design social institutions for the advancement of learning?
The philosophers have ignored the social structure of science. The point,
however, is to change it". Through this Marxian-flavoured plea, 27 years
ago the philosopher Philip Kitcher invited philosophers to care about the
social structure of science. Kitcher’s invitation had both a descriptive and
a normative purpose, by aiming not only to understand how science
works, but also how to modify and ameliorate its functioning.
Accepting
Kitcher’s challenge, this special issue aims at making social epistemology
interact with research policy, taking a critical-normative stance towards
actual practices. In particular, it aims at bridging philosophical
analysis with political concerns about research
policies, by including for example research
evaluation, scientific communication funding, scientific careers,
(inter)disciplinary organization.
We
encourage references to relevant empirical literature, e.g. sociology and
economics of science, bibliometrics, computational modelling. Papers providing
and motivating some policy implications are favoured, although even other kinds
of contributions (e.g. historical or analytical) may be considered for
publication.
The special issue
will be edited by Eugenio Petrovich (eugenio.petrovich@unimi.it)
and Marco Viola (marco.viola@iusspavia.it).
Roars Transactions (RT) is an electronic open-access, peer-reviewed
journal. RT draws from the experience of www.roars.it (Return on
Academic ReSearch), a collective blog (in Italian) dedicated to the monitoring
and critical examination of policy measures and trends in higher
education and public research. RT aims at extending the blog’s scope and depth,
by soliciting contributions worldwide and of a scholarly nature.
At the same time, RT wishes to maintain and enhance its characteristic of
inter-disciplinarity, topical relevance, and openness.
Its high standards of quality are certified by its recent inclusion into the Directory of Open Access
Journals (DOAJ).
HOW TO SUBMIT: in order to submit your
paper, you need to register and login to the journal website (see http://riviste.unimi.it/index.