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Link me Haraway's PhD thesis please, I can't find it on scihub. Original assertion was "highly credentialed biologists", which is different than "highly creden

Link me Haraway's PhD thesis please, I can't find it on scihub. Original assertion was "highly credentialed biologists", which is different than "highly credentialed in biology", and I would agree with your objection to the later statement, her credentials lie mostly outside biology. She's highly credentialed by the nature of her PhD from Yale, teaching at Hopkins & UCSC. She's a biologist by training, achieving her PhD in the field. I asked for a list of social scientists so I could pick one and attack their PhD's or credentials under the same premise you criticized Haraway's, to demonstrate the absurdity of that line of thinking. Marx's PhD was in philosophy, thesis something about greek philosophy being superior to religion. Spent most of his life as a journalist, so he's not credentialed in the social/political science field he's most notable for. ^^^ makes me sound foolish Marx's PhD thesis https://archive.org/details/Marx_Karl_-_Doctoral_Thesis_-_The_Difference_Between_the_Democritean_and_Epicure/page/n11 https://archive.org/details/Marx_Karl_-_Doctoral_Thesis_-_Th...

YorkshireSeason 7y ago
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_Fabrics_and_Fields_Metaphors_That_Shape_Embryos.pdf https://monoskop.org/images/5/58/Haraway_Donna_Crystals_Fabr...
- soudiere 7y ago
  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.

YorkshireSeason 7y ago

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_Fabrics_and_Fields_Metaphors_That_Shape_Embryos.pdf https://monoskop.org/images/5/58/Haraway_Donna_Crystals_Fabr...

soudiere 7y ago
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.