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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", w
by 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 agoIt'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.