| Citations:pseudodiscipline Jun 28th 2013, 23:16, by BD2412 | | | | Line 2: | Line 2: | | | | | | | | An area of study that has a limited resemblance to an [[academic]] [[discipline]]. | | An area of study that has a limited resemblance to an [[academic]] [[discipline]]. | | | + | *'''1919''', Herbert Ellsworth Cory, ''The Intellectuals and the Wage Workers: A Study in Educational Psychoanalysis'', page 244: | | | + | *: But all this is not worthy of the name of discipline; it is '''pseudo-discipline''' as we shall see. | | | *'''1974''', John Somerville, Howard L. Parsons, ''Dialogues on the Philosophy of Marxism: From the Proceedings of the Society for the Philosophical Study of Dialectical Materialism'', page 77: | | *'''1974''', John Somerville, Howard L. Parsons, ''Dialogues on the Philosophy of Marxism: From the Proceedings of the Society for the Philosophical Study of Dialectical Materialism'', page 77: | | | *: If this is the kind of reasoning that "dialectical logic" encourages, the chief function of that '''pseudodiscipline''' would seem to be to facilitate conceptual confusion. | | *: If this is the kind of reasoning that "dialectical logic" encourages, the chief function of that '''pseudodiscipline''' would seem to be to facilitate conceptual confusion. |
Latest revision as of 23:16, 28 June 2013 An area of study that has a limited resemblance to an academic discipline. - 1919, Herbert Ellsworth Cory, The Intellectuals and the Wage Workers: A Study in Educational Psychoanalysis, page 244:
- But all this is not worthy of the name of discipline; it is pseudo-discipline as we shall see.
- 1974, John Somerville, Howard L. Parsons, Dialogues on the Philosophy of Marxism: From the Proceedings of the Society for the Philosophical Study of Dialectical Materialism, page 77:
- If this is the kind of reasoning that "dialectical logic" encourages, the chief function of that pseudodiscipline would seem to be to facilitate conceptual confusion.
- 1987, Brent Wilson, Harlan Hoffa, The History of Art Education: Proceedings from the Penn State Conference, page 100:
- In addition, political studies in such pseudodisciplines as "scientific communism" or "Marxism-Leninism" are required for graduation.
- 2007, H. J. W. Mutsaers, Peasants, Farmers and Scientists: A Chronicle of Tropical Agricultural Science in the Twentieth Century, page 350:
- Project Cycle Management with its methodological frills had now become another jargon-studded pseudo-discipline which could only be mastered after extensive training.
- 2009, Vladislav Zubok, V. M Zubok, Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia, page 381:
- In October 1956 the Academy of Sciences held a session that legitimated cybernetics, which had been denounced by Stalinist science and propaganda as a pseudodiscipline.
- 2010, Gregory Alles, Religious Studies: A Global View, page 276:
- This respect for freedom of religion results in theology being seen as a pseudodiscipline within the university.
- 2011, Bradley Lewis, Narrative Psychiatry: How Stories Can Shape Clinical Practice, page 18:
- If we take a narrative turn, won't we once again be seen by our medical colleagues as a pseudodiscipline—out of touch with the tough-minded realities of the brain and science?
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