UTOPISM. *** In the long run, nothing else is realistic. *** Welcome to the English language blog of Morten Tønnessen, Professor of philosophy at University of Stavanger's Department of Social Studies.
Today I have given the eleventh lecture in Ex.Phil. this Autumn, as part of the University of Stavanger´s bachelor degree in psychology. The topic was political philosophy, specifically political freedom. I also brought up aspects of US politics in this regard, as made pertinent by the presidential election results that are all over the news today.
Today I have had half a book writing day, with some 600 words added to my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. By now I have written approximately a fourth of the book. So far this Autumn I have had 26,5 writing days including 14,5 book writing days.
Today I have given the fifth Ex.phil. seminar this Autumn as part of the bachelor in psychology at the University of Stavanger´s Department of social studies, in two rounds. Topics included source use in academic texts, and who´s exempted from moral and juridical responsibility.
Today I have had an article writing day, with some 100 words added to the article "Friluftsliv in therapeutic residential care: Taking adolescents out to find a way in" which I co-write with Joakim Jiri Haaland. I have also had a work meeting related to the article "Når gode råd er plagsomme Regjeringens holdning til ekspertråd i omstridte politiske saker" which I co-write with Svein Tuastad.
So far this Autumn I have had 26 writing days including 12 article writing days.
Altogether in October I had 11 writing days, whereof 6 book writing days and 5 article writing days, and logged 5.895 words written.
So far in 2024, I have logged 41.270 which is more than in the full year 2021 (41.178).
Today I have given the tenth lecture in Ex.Phil. this Autumn, as part of the University of Stavanger´s bachelor degree in psychology. The topic was political philosophy, specifically contractualism and related issues.
Today I have had a book writing day, with some 900 words added to my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. So far this Autumn I have had 25 writing days including 14 book writing days.
So far in October, I have now logged more than 5.000 words written altogether, and I have now written more than 15.000 words this Autumn. For Captured all-time, I have now logged more than 18.000 words written, of which more than 11.000 words written this Autumn.
I currently have the following number of followers in Academic social media (I am most active on ResearchGate, where my publications are added regularly, with 94 research items currently listed, and LinkedIn):
Academia.edu: 866 followers (vs. 335 in 2015, 391 in 2016, 519 in 2018 and 657 in 2021)
ResearchGate: 472 followers (vs. 114 in 2016, 250 in 2018 and 269 in 2019)
LinkedIn: 753 connections (vs. 360 in 2016 and 429 in 2018)
All-time reads is currently 26.455 on ResearchGate (vs. 2.297 in 2017, 4.747 in 2019 and 10.590 in 2021) and 33.681 on Academia.edu (vs. 6.503 in 2015, 14.374 in 2019 and 23.300 in 2021). I have 186 recommendations on ResearchGate (vs. 9 in 2019). My current "Research interest score" on ResearchGate is 668.7, and they list 718 citations (vs. ca. 1.200 on Google Scholar, which lists 135 research items).
So, I´ve added about 200 followers on ResearchGate over the last 5 years, and about 200 followers on Academia.edu over the last 3 years, as well as 300+ on LinkedIn over the last 6 years. Meanwhile, I´ve had about 16.000 reads on ResearchGate over the last 3 years (and about 22.000 reads over the last 5 years), while on Academia.edu I´ve had about 10.000 reads over the last 3 years (and about 19.000 reads over the last 5 years).
On LinkedIn, my posts have gained 16.554 impressions over the last 365 days (+1,262.5%).
