1st Edition

Science Under the Yoke of Value A Phenomenological Inquiry into the Evaluation Machinery

234 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Science Under the Yoke of Value examines how science today is fundamentally governed not by an autonomous quest for knowledge and truth, or by the advancement of society, but by coercion to cater to a machinery that feeds on, and in its turn produces, self‑implicating values of “quality”, “impact”, or “productivity”, with disruptive consequences for scientific life as a whole. Drawing on... Read more

Introduction  The Yoke of Value  1. On the Machinal Trait of Evaluation  2. Time and Value (Temporicide in the Evaluation Machinery)  3. The Scholar Under the Yoke of Value  4. A Retrospective and a Prospective Glance at the Path  5. The Technicization of Science  6. The Societization of Science  7. Anonymous Enforcers  8. Peers and Their Counterfeits  Conclusion  A Dialogue on an Evitable Evil: or, Soothingness  Appendix   Ten remarks on the dialogue between technicized science and philosophy

Biography

Maurizio Borghi is Professor of Law at the University of Turin, Italy, Co‑Director of the Nexa Center for Internet & Society, and Faculty Associate of the International University College of Turin. He is the co‑author of Copyright and Mass Digitization and co‑editor of Law, Regulation and Governance in the Information Society.

Ivo De Gennaro is Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Free University of Bozen‑Bolzano, Italy, and Vice‑President of the Meran Academy, Merano, Italy. He is the author of Principles of Philosophy: A Phenomenological Approach and The Weirdness of Being: Heidegger’s Unheard Answer to the Seinsfrage, and the co‑author of The Dictatorship of Value: Teaching and Research in the Planetary University.

Gino Zaccaria is Senior Professor of Theoretical Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, and Co‑Director of the ScienzaNuova school. He is the author of The Enigma of Art. On the Provenance of Artistic Creation, and the co‑author of The Dictatorship of Value: Teaching and Research in the Planetary University.