Oded Goldreich
Abstract
This opinionated essay discusses the role of intellectual and instrumental values in scientific fields, and the way these values evolve due to internal and external forces. It identifies two sources of the decline of intellectual values within a scientific field: (1) the direct intervention of outsiders in the dynamics of (successful) scientific fields, and (2) the decline of intellectual values in the society at large.
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