Academia's Big Five: A normative taxonomy for the epistemic responsibilities of universities [version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations]

Rik Peels; René Van Woudenberg; Jeroen de Ridder; Lex Bouter

doi:10.12688/f1000research.19459.1

Academia's Big Five: A normative taxonomy for the epistemic responsibilities of universities [version 1; peer review: 1 approved with reservations]

Rik Peels^*
, René Van Woudenberg
, Jeroen de Ridder
, Lex Bouter

^*Corresponding author for this work

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This paper proposes a normative taxonomy by which universities can express the extent to which they meet five core epistemic responsibilities. Epistemic responsibilities are responsibilities that have to do with the attainment of knowledge and understanding. The core epistemic responsibilities, which we call the Big Five, are to (1) foster research integrity, (2) teach for intellectual virtue, (3) address the big questions of life, (4) give humanistic inquiry and education a proper place, and (5) serve society. The paper characterizes the Big Five in some detail and explains why they are core epistemic responsibilities of universities. The paper concludes by describing the steps that should be taken in order to test, amend, and implement the taxonomy.

Original language	English
Article number	862
Pages (from-to)	1-13
Number of pages	13
Journal	F1000Research
Volume	8
Early online date	13 Jun 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.19459.1
Publication status	Published - 2019

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Work on this paper was funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation and was carried out within the project The Epistemic Responsibilities of the University (2016-2019). The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Templeton World Charity Foundation. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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Templeton World Charity Foundation	2016-2019

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SDG 4 Quality Education

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Big question, epistemic responsibilities, humanities, research integrity, societal relevance, teaching, university, virtue

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