Maxwell, N;
(2018)
We Need an Academic Revolution.
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Abstract
The crisis of our times is that we have science without wisdom. The crucial question is: How can the world learn to become a bit wiser? The answer is that we need our institutions of learning, our schools and universities, to be rationally devoted to the task. At present they are not. Judged from that standpoint, universities – devoted as they are to the pursuit of knowledge – are damagingly irrational in a wholesale, structural fashion. We urgently need to bring about a revolution in academic inquiry so that the basic task becomes to devote reason to helping humanity make progress towards a wiser world.
| Type: | Digital scholarly resource |
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| Title: | We Need an Academic Revolution |
| Publisher version: | http://emerald-real-world-impact.blogspot.co.uk/20... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Academic revolution, Crisis of our times, Science without wisdom, Reason, Wiser world |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Science and Technology Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10044792 |
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