Lo que el dinero no puede comprar… ni la cienciometría medir. Una propuesta humanista del conocimiento frente al mercantilismo cienciométrico
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Date
2015-08-24
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Corporación Universitaria Lasallista
Abstract
The aim of this article is to show how the market
triumphalism, denounced by Michael Sandel in his
book What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of
Markets, has also reached the research activity.
Researchers are now ruthlessly crushed by a global
system for quantification of research and knowledge
whose background is a pragmatic and mercantilist
view of science, conceived and designed according
to technocratic-scientometric standards. This
situation requires resetting and academically rigorous rethinking the human sense of research
conceived as a social practice provided with a telos
or an end in itself. In order to meet this goal, this
paper is divided into four parts. The first reflects on
the human sense of research. The second performs
a diagnosis of the state of research particularly in
Colombia with particular reference to the social
sciences and humanities, analyzing the specific case
of law and philosophy. In the third part the ideological
background underlying scientometric standards is
exposed. Finally, the fourth part examines the role
of universities to meet the challenge of returning to
research its true meaning.
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Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, Investigación, Prácticas sociales, Cienciometría