A Scientist in the Game of Power over Knowledge. In the Light of the Act 2.0

• Authors: Jolanta Jabłońska-Bonca

Abstracts

EN

Academics and faculty members are entangled in many interests. Selfless science for cognitive purposes is a thing of the past. There is a constant game of the power over knowledge. Apart from scientists, many entities with various interests are participants of the game. They are: politicians, officials, academic administration, research sponsors, accreditation agencies, publishers, resort scientific institutes, industry, business. The scientists themselves sometimes work for the truth and sometimes they work for profit; they create knowledge which is public property, or when they are employed commercially, e.g. by the industry, they create private knowledge. This paper presents five factors which may contribute to restricting the cognitive autonomy of the scientists.

Keywords

EN

power over knowledge; scientists’ autonomy; social impact; academic science; industrial science; post-academic science; research funding; academic strategy

• Publisher: Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
• Journal: Krytyka Prawa. Niezależne studia nad prawem
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 131-143

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Jolanta Jabłońska-Bonca

Identifiers

DOI

10.7206/kp.2080-1084.346

Biblioteka Nauki

2082820