What facts can you offer that indicate that the humanities and social science courses at our elite universities are doing more than indoctrinating students in Critical Theory?
No doubt there are some candles of light in the darkness of our elite universitiesтАЩ humanities departments. However, I do believe that they are currently doing more harm than good. A couple of dusty encyclopedia entries isnтАЩt much evidence to the contrary.
There is a debate as to whether replication of humanities studies is possible and, if so, whether it is desirable. The following paper argues for the affirmative on both questions:
Interesting article, thanks. I trying to back up my broader claim that the тАЬbabyтАЭ has already been tossed out, rather than the narrower claim that the humanities are hopelessly woke. One of my links made that narrower claim, the others were intended to show that the humanities are in decline.
The replication articles show that (1) thereтАЩs a significant problem in the hard sciences, and (2) many in the тАЬsofterтАЭ sciences are rejecting the very notion that reproducibility is either possible or desirable in their fields. The implication is that, as bad as the situation is in the hard sciences, itтАЩs likely far worse in the humanities.
One of the criticisms leveled against Claudine Gay was that she refused to share her data with others in her field. Many in the humanities argue that there is no such thing as data in the humanities.
The baby has already been thrown out. All that is left to do is to bury the body.
What facts can you offer that indicate that the humanities and social science courses at our elite universities are doing more than indoctrinating students in Critical Theory?
No doubt there are some candles of light in the darkness of our elite universitiesтАЩ humanities departments. However, I do believe that they are currently doing more harm than good. A couple of dusty encyclopedia entries isnтАЩt much evidence to the contrary.
Whoa. Dusty adages on top of dusty encyclopedia entries. Very convincing. I may have to rethink my position.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis?wprov=sfti1#Background
https://www.amacad.org/news/college-graduates-humanities-drops-eighth-consecutive-year
There is a debate as to whether replication of humanities studies is possible and, if so, whether it is desirable. The following paper argues for the affirmative on both questions:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-018-0149-x
https://www.hoover.org/research/death-humanities
And a post mortem from left of center:
https://blog.oup.com/2020/10/scientism-the-coronavirus-and-the-death-of-the-humanities/
Interesting article, thanks. I trying to back up my broader claim that the тАЬbabyтАЭ has already been tossed out, rather than the narrower claim that the humanities are hopelessly woke. One of my links made that narrower claim, the others were intended to show that the humanities are in decline.
The replication articles show that (1) thereтАЩs a significant problem in the hard sciences, and (2) many in the тАЬsofterтАЭ sciences are rejecting the very notion that reproducibility is either possible or desirable in their fields. The implication is that, as bad as the situation is in the hard sciences, itтАЩs likely far worse in the humanities.
One of the criticisms leveled against Claudine Gay was that she refused to share her data with others in her field. Many in the humanities argue that there is no such thing as data in the humanities.