Abstract

GOMEZ-MORALES, YURI JACK. THE PRAECISIO MUNDI THE MEASUREMENT OF SCIENCE AND THE CURTAILMENT THE UNIVERSITY AS A CULTURAL PROJECT. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2021, vol.70, suppl.7, pp.111-121.  Epub Mar 10, 2022. ISSN 0120-0062.  https://doi.org/10.15446/ideasyvalores.v70n7supl.95962.

This essay poses a philosophical question conducted as an historical investigation that end up in a sociological explanation around the measurement of science. Measuring, etymologically related to a praecisio (a closure, a mutilation) acquires its deepest meaning in a postontological era for describing the cultural implications of a world deprived of metaphysics. Based on a succinct account of the emergence of bibliometric thought framed by the early-twentieth-century historiographic debate between serial historians and historians of the event (histoire événementielle), this essay join both postontological meaning and historical evidence into a sociological analysis of science and technology policies at the turn of the century Colombia which have led to a radical transformation of the university as a social institution, of the status of knowledge in contemporary society, and the identity of we scholars who inhabit that space.

Keywords : G. Bibliometrics; measuring science; productiviesm; criticism.

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