Comments on: What it means to be a scholar http://targuman.org/blog/2009/12/02/what-it-means-to-be-a-scholar/ Translating my thoughts into words. Thu, 24 May 2012 15:21:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Gary Simmons http://targuman.org/blog/2009/12/02/what-it-means-to-be-a-scholar/comment-page-1/#comment-53797 Gary Simmons Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:35:34 +0000 http://targuman.org/blog/?p=3708#comment-53797 *Claps.* *Claps.*

]]> By: Robert Holmstedt http://targuman.org/blog/2009/12/02/what-it-means-to-be-a-scholar/comment-page-1/#comment-53793 Robert Holmstedt Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:11:33 +0000 http://targuman.org/blog/?p=3708#comment-53793 Hear, hear! Well said. (How do you clap on the internet?) Hear, hear! Well said. (How do you clap on the internet?)

]]> By: Chris Brady http://targuman.org/blog/2009/12/02/what-it-means-to-be-a-scholar/comment-page-1/#comment-53792 Chris Brady Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:59:30 +0000 http://targuman.org/blog/?p=3708#comment-53792 Thank you John. I saw Martha speak once and have been meaning to get the work. I will do so now! Thank you John. I saw Martha speak once and have been meaning to get the work. I will do so now!

]]> By: John Hobbins http://targuman.org/blog/2009/12/02/what-it-means-to-be-a-scholar/comment-page-1/#comment-53791 John Hobbins Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:43:42 +0000 http://targuman.org/blog/?p=3708#comment-53791 And here I thought it was acceptable to think of scholarship as the expression of particular cultural identities - gender-based, ideology-based, confessionally-based. Are you really trying to put the word "university" back into the university? Here I thought that an objective analysis of scholarship in the humanities leads to the conclusion that it really about weaving thought experiments, rather than developing testable hypotheses, isolating control beliefs, and subjecting them to a rigorous scrutiny. Very nice, Chris. Are you familiar with Martha Nussbaum's Cultivating Humanity? If not, spend an hour or two with it. You will find much grist for your mill. And here I thought it was acceptable to think of scholarship as the expression of particular cultural identities – gender-based, ideology-based, confessionally-based. Are you really trying to put the word “university” back into the university?

Here I thought that an objective analysis of scholarship in the humanities leads to the conclusion that it really about weaving thought experiments, rather than developing testable hypotheses, isolating control beliefs, and subjecting them to a rigorous scrutiny.

Very nice, Chris. Are you familiar with Martha Nussbaum’s Cultivating Humanity? If not, spend an hour or two with it. You will find much grist for your mill.

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