The Provocations of Camille Paglia

Re:The Provocations of Camille Paglia by YorkshireSeason on Thursday August 29, 2019 @08:52AM (#20829008)

Thanks for the link to Marx PhD. As far as I understand [1] is (a book version of) Haraway's doctoral dissertation.

   "highly credentialed biologists", 
   which is different than 
   "highly credentialed in biology"

By that sophistic logic, I'm a "highly credentialed chess player" simply because as a child I played a few games of chess and now have lots of credentials in a STEM field. By the same logic I would also be a

- highly credentialed soccer player

- highly credentialed surfer

- highly credentialed linguist

and many more variants. All of the above would be misleading because clearly statements like "X is a highly credentialed Y" are usually assumed to mean that X's credentials are in subject Y. Since a persistent and widely known criticism of Gender Studies and the concept of gender is the severed link with biology in general, and the biology of fertility in particular, is remarkable, and it is difficult to believe it is done in good faith.

[1] https://monoskop.org/images/5/58/Haraway_Donna_Crystals_Fabr...

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Re:The Provocations of Camille Paglia by soudiere on Friday August 30, 2019 @07:45AM (#20837624)

It's not sophisticated logic, it's plain reading of the grammatical structure of the phrase. An adverb and adjective modifying a noun.

Haraway did not play a few games of chess as a child, she studied 7+ years to get a PhD.

I'm with you that gender studies has an evidence/science problem in general, baselessly attacking a researchers credentials does not prove that point.

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