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H S Joshi
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H S Joshi
@jon_stewartmill
Philosophy professor living in the desert. Author of Why It's OK To Speak Your Mind, available at https://t.co/wN3AglvuQb
Arizona, USA Katılım Ocak 2013
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@jon_stewartmill While you're here, have you perchance read Dworkin's Sovereign Virtue? Any good?
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I share @sndurlauf's view: There is plenty of solid sociology. Unfortunately, many of these advances are overshadowed by more politicized and activist-oriented work of limited rigor.
To help identify and celebrate outstanding sociology, the Sociology Community of @HdxAcademy has launched Sociological Highlights, 2015–2025.
We are inviting nominations of books and articles that have advanced sociological understanding in substantive, original, and enduring ways.
We welcome nominations from the U.S. and around the world. Details below. 1/3
Steven N. Durlauf@sndurlauf
On sociology. The Vanderbilt/Washington St. Louis report on the state of academia is apparently being used by some to launch broad attacks on the discipline of sociology. These attacks display deep ignorance of the field. I say this as someone who believes the report is substantively correct and well constructed. The authors of the report were careful to distinguish specific problems within disciplines from wholesale assaults. The Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility @UCStoneCenter at @UChicago has been profoundly enriched by the sociologists in our community, starting with the extraordinary Center Associate Director Geoffrey Wodtke and extending across our community of advisors and affiliates. It is indisputable that the scholarly frontiers in sociology are generating fundmantal social science. These conversations in The Inequality Podcast stonecenter.uchicago.edu/whats-new/the-… describe great research, with perspectives, approaches and analyses that my discipline of economics does not produce on its own. 1. Nathan Wilmers .@natewilmers: The Changing Labor Market Landscape 2. Michael Esposito: Racial Health Disparities 3. Xi Song .@xisong: Intergenerational Mobility at Home and Abroad 3. Janet Gornick .@JanetGornick: The Importance of Measuring Socio-Economic Inequality 4. Felix Elwert, David Harding, and Geoffrey Wodtke/Marissa Thompson: How Neighborhoods and Schools Shape Inequality 5. Christopher Muller and Hedwig Lee .@hedwig_lee : The Costs of Mass Incarceration 6. Lauren Rivera .@Laurenaudrie: Meritocracy and Its Failings 7. Natasha Qualdin .@nquadlin: Gender Inequality 8. Jake Rosenfeld .@JakeRosenfeld1/ Daniel Schneider .@dannyjschneider: The Age of Unpredictable and Precarious Work 9. Daniel Aldana Cohen .@aldatweets: Climate and Housing Crises 10. Deirdre Bloome: Intergenerational-Contextual Approaches to Inequality 11. Fabian Pfeffer .@FabianPfeffer : Wealth Inequality Across Countries 12. Cristobal Young: The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight 13. Doug Downey: How Schools Really Matter 14. Stephen Raudenbush: Creating Ambitious Schools 15. René Flores: Immigration Enforcement and ‘Social Illegality’ 16. Mario Small .@MarioLuisSmall: Networks and Urban Poverty 17. Leslie McCall @LeslieMcCallgc : Intersectional Inequality, AI, and Meritocracy 18. Tom VanHeuvelen .@TVanheuvelen : The Future of Organized Labor 19. Michelle Jackson .@mivich: The Overworked Labor Force
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The discourse on academic political bias focuses a lot on people who are overtly activist, but the problem runs much deeper than that.
I'm often struck by how even smart academics who buy the ideal of value-free science fail to seriously reflect on their own biases.
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🎯"those with incompatible and indeed rival worldviews may join in objecting to ideological capture, not because they share some substantive cause, but because they fear compromising the social institution and the goods it is supposed to produce" scholar.google.com/citations?view…
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@bkogel89 @jjosephporter @worst_account This back and forth is just what we need in the scholarly literature!
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Growing up is realizing "democracies" aren't—and can't be—genuinely democratic.
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New paper, in which I argue you don't live in a democracy. "Democracy and the Academy" at Philosophy & Public Affairs Link below. Tell me why I'm wrong in the replies!
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@jon_stewartmill Will try, but I've always had trouble publishing replies to something in journal x in a journal that is not x. This is why I tell my grad students not to write replies... should probably listen to my own advice!
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@jon_stewartmill Jeff Carroll and I wrote a long reply that will, unfortunately, never get published b/c J desked it. Can send it to you if interested.
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Nietzsche, on training new models (Gay Science, Kaufman trans.)
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@worst_account @ThomBriggs Good point! Then I think my argument gets some traction...
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@jon_stewartmill @ThomBriggs Depends on the libertarian! I do think the concentration of wealth etc is relevant even with all the formal conditions being fine, for example.
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@worst_account @ThomBriggs Part of the argument is conditional too. If formal protections and right to vote are all that's required then the Rawls/Chomsky/Scanlon et al. worries about concentration of wealth undermining democratic legitimacy don't get off the ground.
So, perhaps not as big a problem for..
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“How the world began is a problem for the physicist and the astronomer [...] How life began is a problem for the biologist [...]. Why the world began, why life began, on the other hand, I think are pseudo-questions.”
—W.V.O. Quine on the nature of philosophy
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