New preprint - "Beyond kindness: a proposal for the flourishing of science and scientists"
Preprint: https://mindrxiv.org/4zrmd
@mvugt may have ideas on this.
@Gaythia @FrankSchumann I very much agree that we should support a more collaborative and social approach. We debated a lot about how much to focus on the Buddhist background but the short format of the target journal did not allow for a long discussion of that. Feel free to start a discussion on the accompanying forum https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/open-discussion-on-preprint-beyond-kindness-a-proposal-for-the-flourishing-of-science-and-scientists/1810
@mvugt @Gaythia Agreed to an opening towards other cultural perspective. Both options seems valuable: to take on a more explicit Buddhist background, and to stay within our cultural background. Thich Nhat Hanh for example pointed towards embodying the 4 Immeasurables in our own context, culture, tradition and life, which is more what this paper does.
The ERC changes evaluation criteria, including narrative descriptions of CVs and strengthening the proposal over past projects, reducing path dependency:
https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/erc-scientific-council-decides-changes-evaluation-forms-and-processes-2024-calls
Along impartiality, the first of the 4 Immeasurable values, this could be applied to science itself:
"intellectual humility and identify the common element: a meta-cognitive ability to recognize the limitations of one’s beliefs and knowledge. "
"Intellectually humbler people seem to be more curious and better liked as leaders, and tend to make more well informed decisions. Intellectually humbler people also seem to be more open to cooperating with those whose views differ from their own."
Can democratic governance help science to flourish ?
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.220808?fbclid=IwAR13RFY_JlxZSLhGqsEAEoSrqvgnnV5NJ7kWzYyX92Utu-mNRuc-1CvavOg
@FrankSchumann I think that this paper offers many interesting ideas. It ought to be part of an opening to an evaluation of the practice of science from many different cultural perspectives, not just the European-US American originating, capitalistic system underlain one we have now. I think that the paper should be more openly acknowledged as coming from a particular, Buddhist influenced one. And should an opening to fostering connections from other cultural perspectives.
It is important to support a collaborative, greater social and ecological good approach while still embodying the discovery aspects of scientific pursuits. Tibet, for example, has been a very static culture.