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A Social Epistemology of Reputation
In: Social epistemology: a journal of knowledge, culture and policy, Band 26, Heft 3-4, S. 399-418
ISSN: 1464-5297
Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Trust
In: Social epistemology: a journal of knowledge, culture and policy, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 221-235
ISSN: 1464-5297
Epistemic Vigilance and Epistemic Responsibility in the Liquid World of Scientific Publications
In: Social epistemology: a journal of knowledge, culture and policy, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 149-159
ISSN: 1464-5297
NOSTRA PATRIA E IL MONDO INTERO: Dopo Lula
In: MicroMega: per una sinistra illuminista, Heft 8, S. 58-64
ISSN: 0394-7378, 2499-0884
Ranking che passion
In: MicroMega: per una sinistra illuminista, Heft 1, S. 171-178
ISSN: 0394-7378, 2499-0884
AMERICA / AMERIKA: La mamma di Obama
In: MicroMega: per una sinistra illuminista, Heft 6, S. 20-25
ISSN: 0394-7378, 2499-0884
Fragilità
In: L' educazione sentimentale: rivista semestrale, Heft 26, S. 110-114
ISSN: 2037-7649
The LL game: The curious preference for low quality and its norms
In: Politics, philosophy & economics, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 3-23
ISSN: 1741-3060
We investigate a phenomenon which we have experienced as common when dealing with an assortment of Italian public and private institutions: people promise to exchange high-quality goods and services, but then something goes wrong and the quality delivered is lower than had been promised. While this is perceived as 'cheating' by outsiders, insiders seem not only to adapt to, but to rely on this outcome. They do not resent low-quality exchanges; in fact, they seem to resent high-quality ones, and are inclined to put pressure on or avoid dealing with agents who deliver high quality. The equilibrium among low-quality producers relies on an unusual preference ranking which differs from that associated with the Prisoners' Dilemma and similar games, whereby self-interested rational agents prefer to dish out low quality in exchange for high quality. While equally 'lazy', agents in our low-quality worlds are oddly 'pro-social': for the advantage of maximizing their raw self-interest, they prefer to receive low-quality goods and services, provided that they too can in exchange deliver low quality without embarrassment. They develop a set of oblique social norms to sustain their preferred equilibrium when threatened by the intrusion of high quality. We argue that high-quality collective outcomes are endangered not only by self-interested individual defectors, but by 'cartels' of mutually satisfied mediocrities. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright holder.]
The LL game: The curious preference for low quality and its norms
In: Politics, philosophy & economics: ppe, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 3-23
ISSN: 1741-3060
We investigate a phenomenon which we have experienced as common when dealing with an assortment of Italian public and private institutions: people promise to exchange high-quality goods and services, but then something goes wrong and the quality delivered is lower than had been promised. While this is perceived as 'cheating' by outsiders, insiders seem not only to adapt to, but to rely on this outcome. They do not resent low-quality exchanges; in fact, they seem to resent high-quality ones, and are inclined to put pressure on or avoid dealing with agents who deliver high quality. The equilibrium among low-quality producers relies on an unusual preference ranking which differs from that associated with the Prisoners' Dilemma and similar games, whereby self-interested rational agents prefer to dish out low quality in exchange for high quality. While equally 'lazy', agents in our low-quality worlds are oddly 'pro-social': for the advantage of maximizing their raw self-interest, they prefer to receive low-quality goods and services, provided that they too can in exchange deliver low quality without embarrassment. They develop a set of oblique social norms to sustain their preferred equilibrium when threatened by the intrusion of high quality. We argue that high-quality collective outcomes are endangered not only by self-interested individual defectors, but by 'cartels' of mutually satisfied mediocrities.
Scientific Publications 2.0. The End of the Scientific Paper?
In: Social epistemology: a journal of knowledge, culture and policy, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 145-148
ISSN: 1464-5297
LETTERATURA IN DISCUSSIONE: Vergogna di John Maxwell Coetzee
In: Iride: filosofia e discussione pubblica, Band 23, Heft 59, S. 171-178
ISSN: 1122-7893
FILM IN DISCUSSIONE: discutono: The Departed di Martin Scorsese
In: Iride: filosofia e discussione pubblica, Band 20, Heft 50, S. 177-186
ISSN: 1122-7893
Social Indicators of Trust in the Age of Informational Chaos
In: Social epistemology: a journal of knowledge, culture and policy, Band 36, Heft 5, S. 533-540
ISSN: 1464-5297
Current Dynamics of Scholarly Publishing
In: Evaluation review: a journal of applied social research, Band 39, Heft 1, S. 3-18
ISSN: 1552-3926
Background: Scholarly publishing is an essential vehicle for actively participating in the scientific debate and for sustaining the invisible colleges of the modern research environment, which extend far beyond the borders of individual research institutions. However, its current dynamics have deeply transformed the scientific life and conditioned in new ways the economics of academic knowledge production. They have also challenged the perceived common sense view of scientific research. Method: Analytical approach to set out a comprehensive framework on the current debate on scholarly publishing and to shed light on the peculiar organization and the working of this peculiar productive sector. Result: The way in which scientific knowledge is produced and transmitted has been dramatically affected by the series of recent major technosocietal transformations. Although the effects are many, in particular the current overlap and interplay between two distinct and somewhat opposite stances—scientific and economic—tend to blur the overall understanding of what scholarly publishing is and produces distortion on its working which in turn affect the scientific activities. The outcome is thus a series of intended and unintended effects on the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge. Conclusion: The article suggests that a substantial transformation characterizes science today that seems more like a thrusting, entrepreneurial business than a contemplative, disinterested endeavor. In this essay, we provide a general overview of the pivotal role of the scholarly publishing in fostering this change and its pros and cons connected to the idiosyncratic interplay between social norms and market stances.