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I wrote this as postmodernist parody of #JamesLindsay.
There's a deeper point: History of research disciplines tells us that as you build new knowledge, even through sometimes aggressive critique of others' work, you need to build it with others' concepts and ideas. 1/
There's a deeper point: History of research disciplines tells us that as you build new knowledge, even through sometimes aggressive critique of others' work, you need to build it with others' concepts and ideas. 1/
Even as you build your knowledge *against* some other knowledge that you think is dead wrong, you need to build it *with* knowledge that's already around, and you need to choose that knowledge with care and scrutiny as to its quality. 2/
Part of the process is that you tell your readers & listeners what that knowledge is. Who are the sources? What are the concepts? How do you relate them together? How do see them apply to your evidence? What questions do you pick up from where, which do you leave aside? 3/
If you're not yet tired of hearing about 2+2=4 and 2+2=5, I wrote a piece about it!
Or, if you are tired of it, here's my piece that ties key points together and sums it all up in terms of #publicpedagogy!
#disciplinarity #writingstudies #cdnwrds
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Or, if you are tired of it, here's my piece that ties key points together and sums it all up in terms of #publicpedagogy!
#disciplinarity #writingstudies #cdnwrds
medium.com/@KatjaT/what-h…
With nods to those on whose Twitter work my piece relies: @melvinmperalta, @Laurie_Rubel, @kareem_carr, @wtgowers, @wokal_distance, @AaronRHanlon, @mccormick_ted, @ETVPod, and @yarbsalocin.
"It is worth noting that logical pluralism is a mainstream position among logicians and completely within the Western tradition which Lindsay so adamantly claims to defend, yet this is something that his worldview does not admit."
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Most championing of viewpoint diversity in unis ignores #disciplinarity. Mostly binary analyses of "left-wing"/"liberal"/"progressive" vs. "conservative"/"right-wing" that have been pushed by groups who espouse political heterodoxy and viewpoint diversity are beside the point. 1/
They are beside the point especially when the point is as general as "science/truth needs disagreement." Your first question should be: do you have disciplinary expertise combined with cross-disciplinary experience in the questions, concepts, and evidence you use? 2/
How do we know that some ideas are bad ideas? We know when an idea has been discussed for decades, in some cases centuries, and has lost all its ground in those debates. Is it authoritarian if we dismiss that idea in the researched discussions we're part of? No, of course not. 3/
@dunaevtimur asked with a bit of insistence for at least some outline of what I was thinking about when I wrote the below tweet. So let me try. 1/
I'll start with my perspective in the moments of noticeable divide. Reading and/or being trained in feminist scholarship, queer theory, anti-racist strategy, trans studies etc. is a disciplinary training. It disciplines your mind to see certain patterns, read in certain ways. 2/
If you've been in classes, rooms, committees, fora with feminists, queer theorists, anti-racist activists for years, you internalize those patterns and the language that comes with it. 3/
