Am not familiar with Noah Carl's work, but what I find "creepy" is the very long list of tenured academics writing a letter maligning a postdoc for wrongthink, as opposed to engaging with his work in a scholarly manner.https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/1070766617305452544 …
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They made specific citations, of the sorts of analytic and category errors on which they based their judgement. They also request an impartial review of his published work. I don’t think they need to publish a treatise on their objections in order to be considered serious.
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That said, I’m no researcher, so maybe my provincial take misses some nuance. On the face of it the criticism of the letter seemed overly uncharitable.
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They made no citations at all, and nothing specific/concrete was stated, neither was there a link to anything. I don't understand at all your position. Their behavior is NOT typical of academic disagreement. That is usually resolved thru debate in scholarly outlets.
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