Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Can the subject be reduced to a set of metrics? This article seeks to address the challenge of reducing complex social issues to easily commensurable values, examining the implications and potential drawbacks of this approach. To obtain these values we use various measurements, calculations, techniques, and similar natural sciences. The author reflects on the rational nature of such reductive solutions, emphasising their ability to bring clarity to the complex world around us. Seemingly free of ideological overtones and external influences, they present us with hard facts to rely on. But what if this ‘quantitative turn’ in law marks the possibility of ideology becoming stronger than ever? The author concludes that the pervasive ‘ideology of metrics’ in public discourse demands critical examination and provides considerations for the fostering of a nuanced perspective, urging a cautious approach as to what may seem like self-evident laws of computation.
Source: Law and Critique
Author: Tomáš Havlíček
Institution: Masaryk University
Language: English
Topic: Legal and Social Philosophy
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,090
Funder: Masarykova Univerzita
Award: G1880772758
OpenAlex ID: W4414417845