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Brian D. Earp
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    1. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Oct 3

      ... constantly examine 'obvious' things that are taken for granted, and ask whether they might productively be seen in a different light, and, in doing so, often do add useful tools to our epistemological toolkit for how we should approach various complex topics. ... Indeed, ...

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    2. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Oct 3

      ... setting aside 'critical studies' type stuff, even in the most main-stream, hard-core analytic philosophy (with very smart people looking at issues in metaphysics, etc.), it is a *regular thing* to write papers with seemingly 'absurd' conclusions based on 'what everyone knows'

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    3. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Oct 3

      ... forcing the thoughtful reader to think deeply about all sorts of things it's easy not to 'see' as deep puzzles otherwise (such as how our beliefs about the external world might be justified, what personal identity consists in, etc. etc.); an outsider to contemporary ...

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    4. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Oct 3

      ... metaphysics could easily pull up dozens of papers arguing for 'obviously absurd' conclusions, but this would not entail that those papers were not rigorously argued; it could also reveal the limits of the perspective-taking ability or imaginative capacity of the reader ...

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    5. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Oct 3

      ... So it's hard to know what to say in the end. A lot of 'mainstream' science in supposedly rigorous fields is non-reproducible nonsense generated by a combination of statistical rituals, ineffective peer review, publication biases, ideologies and dogmas, politicking etc ...

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    6. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Oct 3

      ... and so, the claim that, in 'critical studies' fields it is not *that* hard for a smart person to 'figure out the rules' of publication & get some shady/shoddy stuff accepted in top journals is not surprising, but it also doesn't convince me that there is a SPECIAL problem ...

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    7. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Oct 3

      ... with the fields, as such, in these particular regards. That being said, I wonder if there is an interesting asymmetry here. I suspect it actually WOULD be quite hard for a typical gender studies/critical studies researcher to, in a short period of time, master the tools ...

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    8. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Oct 3

      ... and learn the rules of publication in many other fields; it seems like, to publish a paper in a top journal in medicine or psychology, you couldn't just whip some stuff up over the course of less than a year and get it through peer review in the most well-respected journals..

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    9. Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Oct 3

      ... so, the fact that these Sokal-style hoaxes tend to be more or less easy to pull off ON 'critical studies' type journals by smart people from totally unrelated fields, whereas, I'm not aware of cases (and suspect it would be harder) to pull off a hoax in the opposite direction

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    10. Robert Efroymson‏ @Efroymson Oct 4
      Replying to @briandavidearp

      This observation undercuts your claim that there is no special problem in Critical Studies. Relatedly, in other fields at least an attempt at statistics must be made, vomiting out a word salad is not enough.

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      Brian D. Earp‏ @briandavidearp Oct 4
      Replying to @Efroymson

      I agree, and have stated, that this likely counts as evidence against the no special problems view

      7:09 AM - 4 Oct 2018
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        1. Robert Efroymson‏ @Efroymson Oct 5
          Replying to @briandavidearp

          It seems to me that the only way to argue that there is no special problem in Critical Studies is to show that *all* Published Academic Research is worthless. That seems a tough bar to clear, but fortunately I have proved it is true: http://efroymson.blogspot.com/2018/10/published-academic-research-is-worthless.html …

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