Archive for December 28th, 2004

Quantity vs. Quality in Academia

Tuesday, December 28th, 2004

Something that has always interested me, and which is especially interesting as I prepare to embark on an academic career, is the question of what qualifies as a worthwhile, academic endeavor (in terms of published works, which is still the most widely used measure of academic value). That is, how tightly reasoned does an argument [...]