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H S Joshi

@jon_stewartmill

Philosophy professor living in the desert. Visit my blog at: https://t.co/DHf9wx0d2U

Arizona, USA Katılım Ocak 2013
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H S Joshi
H S Joshi@jon_stewartmill·
Journals, universities, etc. require conflict of interest disclosures. But imagine that scholars cannot be hired or advance professionally unless they go along with the dominant ideology. Is this a conflict of interest? And can we trust the outputs of such work? Link below.
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Jacob Shell
Jacob Shell@JacobAShell·
Pres of American Anthro Association defends censoring academic speech which says humans are sexually dimorphic, because you can "type into Google" and see that some people argue something else. Well...I believe this kind of thing is the reason that the Vanderbilt report exists!
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Rob Sica@robsica

President of @AmericanAnthro: "All you need to do is literally type into Google and see that we know, factually... the idea that there are two sexes is just factually incorrect" archive.ph/FKjSk

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H S Joshi@jon_stewartmill·
Link: desertphilosophy.substack.com/p/what-can-we-… tl;dr: we are likely "living in the Matrix" when it comes to ideologically salient issues, more than we might realize. As a result, scholarly consensus on many social and political issues must be taken with a grain (or heap) of salt.
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H S Joshi@jon_stewartmill·
Journals, universities, etc. require conflict of interest disclosures. But imagine that scholars cannot be hired or advance professionally unless they go along with the dominant ideology. Is this a conflict of interest? And can we trust the outputs of such work? Link below.
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H S Joshi@jon_stewartmill·
"It's society's collective task to lift the burdens of parents and other caretakers. Externalities need cooperative solutions. Depopulation is the worst type of externality, of a kind with climate change...It is a global, intergenerational policy and cultural issue."
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Reads with Ravi
Reads with Ravi@readswithravi·
“In my whole life I've never been good at something I wasn't very interested in. It just doesn't work. There's no substitute for strong interest.” — Charlie Munger
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Robin McKenna
Robin McKenna@rbnmckenna86·
Some books I read this year, with brief thoughts on them. A mix of fiction and non-fiction, with lots of philosophy and politics. Plus this is my chance to say that I managed to finish Ulysses. Link in the reply.
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Alec MacGillis
Alec MacGillis@AlecMacGillis·
"Convenience has saved us time. The hidden price is that it has also saved us from one another." Good column:
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Brandon Warmke
Brandon Warmke@BrandonWarmke·
One reason the AAA pres interview is so fascinating is it shows what kind of reasoning, what habits of mind are esteemed in certain fields. Just after saying she'd never judge a discipline she doesn't understand, she says this about philosophy. I dare you to make sense of it.
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Jesse Smith
Jesse Smith@jessesmithsoc·
Took a little longer than expected, but follow-up to the last Substack is finally posted on the very real harms generated by academic resistance liberalism. Read here. open.substack.com/pub/nextturtle…
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H S Joshi@jon_stewartmill·
New Substack post in which I expand this tweet into a whole essay Link below, check it out!
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Brandon Warmke
Brandon Warmke@BrandonWarmke·
Can you believe all these new academic centers hiring know-nothing political hacks? Sir, this is an endowed chair from the Princeton anthropology department.
Tomas Bogardus@TomasBogardus

The president of the anthropologists seems to think that karyotypes are sexes, so that XXY is a different sex from XY. But no birds share my karyotype, yet some are male. So, karyotype ≠ sex. Also, she seems to deny that every XY person is the same sex. So, karyotype ≠ sex.

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H S Joshi@jon_stewartmill·
@meticulousboyle IMO, hiring is where it happens the most. By that time the applicant has a substantial body of work and may have written for the public etc. Less of a thing for grad admissions I think.
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Meticulous Boyle
Meticulous Boyle@meticulousboyle·
@jon_stewartmill Is this kind of thing really happening on admissions committees for grad school? I.e. are they really screening people for ideological fit, even if subtly and indirectly?
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H S Joshi@jon_stewartmill·
1/ Academic reformers underestimate how important this is. Having events and panels on the importance of free inquiry and such does little to correct the underlying issues as long as hiring bias remains. Personnel is policy.
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H S Joshi@jon_stewartmill·
@Alex_A_Guerrero @BrandonWarmke There seem to be many people who blame "neoliberalism" for the problems of the current university system. I have seen that a lot on twitter and elsewhere.
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Alex Guerrero
Alex Guerrero@Alex_A_Guerrero·
@BrandonWarmke Genuine question: who thinks this? I haven’t seen any academic reformers argue this case. Might just not be in my bubble, but genuinely curious what you are seeing.
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Brandon Warmke
Brandon Warmke@BrandonWarmke·
It’s not an exaggeration that many academic reformers think the solution is to go further left. This is a view that’s taken seriously as a plausible solution to our problems. They think current academics are not left enough so we must go further. Never enough. Forget the right.
Rothmus 🏴@Rothmus

Your median professor sits so far left that AOC, Sanders, and Warren would count as moderates in any faculty lounge. Faculty from 55 elite universities form one towering blue spike of ideology far out on the left, density exploding past 6, with virtually nothing on the conservative side. This was built through decades of selective hiring, social enforcement, and the systematic purge of dissent. And because they credential the people who run media, law, government, and tech, the monoculture leaks into every elite institution downstream.

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Brandon Warmke
Brandon Warmke@BrandonWarmke·
Junior faculty member: "His views on immigration make me feel uncomfortable and I just really don't think this is what our students need right now." How many colleagues will start an argument about this to defend the applicant? This itself explains the situation academia is in.
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2/ All it takes to quash an otherwise excellent candidate's application in the current ethos is one or two committe members taking issue. Others will go along because they don't want to alienate their colleagues--especially on ideologically salient matters.

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Chris Freiman
Chris Freiman@cafreiman·
Since people are talking about academia’s political imbalance, here’s a reminder that Nozick was ostracized by his Harvard colleagues simply because they disliked his politics:
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3/ Sometimes the complaint is explicit. For example, that the applicant has defended pro-life views in writing. Other times, reasons are manufactured post hoc. No way to fix the academy without fixing this. Link: goodthoughts.blog/p/when-does-fu…
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2/ All it takes to quash an otherwise excellent candidate's application in the current ethos is one or two committe members taking issue. Others will go along because they don't want to alienate their colleagues--especially on ideologically salient matters.
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