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RE: Why I Left Academic Philosophy
Unfortunately many of the issues you describe is existent for many fields reguarding higher education. Most employers care more about what your degree says then what skills and knowledge you possess.
Universities are heavily pressing this thought process because its what keeps them in buisness. In the age of the internet theres no real point to spending thousands on schooling for most professions.
Many professions could benefit from steemit and other sites. Science is another big one, if they could still earn a salary while opening their work to the public and discussing it, then humanity would have made a huge step forward.
Excellent post! Left a follow was already following and am off to discover what the hell metametaphysics is.
There is a push now towards the open-access world of scientific/academic publishing. Although much of research is still behind paywalls a lot of academics are putting the pre-print pdfs on sites like researchgate or academia.edu or their own personal websites. If you know where to look you can often find the pdfs. But it's not a universal practice. They're still going to do whatever it takes to pad their cvs and get a job. And the writing itself is too inaccessible to the public because it's written in a dense technical fog that your average person is incapable of reading. While I don't believe science should dumb itself down for the public, the writing itself almost always leaves room for improvement in terms of the clarity and readability.
Its a good start, as the internet provides more and more potential funding through interacting with the general public there will be a noticable shift in the audience these journals are directed towards.
Its a slow process with a lot of peoppe fighting against it, but I cant wait to see how the world is in 10-15 years. The internet is truly a remarkable thing.
Really hit the nail on the head. I'm recently out of college and disillusioned af
What were you studying in college?