{"id":9848,"date":"2012-03-18T16:04:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T16:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/18\/internet-crackpots-and-the-perils-of-autodidacticism\/"},"modified":"2012-03-18T16:04:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T16:04:28","slug":"internet-crackpots-and-the-perils-of-autodidacticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/18\/internet-crackpots-and-the-perils-of-autodidacticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Crackpots and the Perils of Autodidacticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">One of the (very minor) drawbacks of having a Web presence is that one becomes the target of crackpot e-mail from people like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User:WHEELER\" target=\"_self\">this<\/a>.&#0160; He describes himself as an autodidact, thereby illustrating the perils of autodidacticism.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">And yet some negotiate the&#0160;straits of autodidacticism quite well, <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/hoffer-eric\/\" target=\"_self\">Eric Hoffer<\/a> for example.&#0160; In general, however, he who educates himself has a fool for a pupil.&#0160;That being said, I advise a modicum of skepticism concerning <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/05\/academic-credentials.html\" target=\"_self\">academic credentials<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">If you expect to have &#39;cred&#39; in the &#39;sphere, it helps to have established credibility in peer-reviewed venues.&#0160; Some of my publications are listed <a href=\"http:\/\/philpapers.org\/s\/vallicella\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>, at PhilPapers.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">It comes as no great surprise that the crackpot in question <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amnation.com\/vfr\/archives\/012325.html\" target=\"_self\">is an anti-Semite<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the (very minor) drawbacks of having a Web presence is that one becomes the target of crackpot e-mail from people like this.&#0160; He describes himself as an autodidact, thereby illustrating the perils of autodidacticism.&#0160; And yet some negotiate the&#0160;straits of autodidacticism quite well, Eric Hoffer for example.&#0160; In general, however, he who educates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/18\/internet-crackpots-and-the-perils-of-autodidacticism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Internet Crackpots and the Perils of Autodidacticism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-varia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}