Anecdotal evidence, case studies, qualititative methodologies, speculation & of course theory, all have a vital place in scholarship. What I object to is simply advocacy masquerading as a scholarly discipline. https://twitter.com/rgcooke/status/1005446623839899649 …
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And how do you know if a field is engaging in advocacy rather than scholarship? The first thing to look at is its scholarly principles. Does the field self-correct? Does the field have a mechanism by which it falsifies its own hypotheses? Does it welcome criticism?
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By that standard, philosophy would fail, too, even though it is not activist. Academia still has a number of scholastic enclaves
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