An independent scholar is anyone who works outside of traditional academia in the pursuit of truth and knowledge. Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ...
New ideas often encounter resistance. Oftentimes, when independent scholars publish their work in non-traditional venues after rejection for traditional publication, traditional academics will attack the new ideas as not being peer-reviewed. Independent scholars claim that it is unfair to attack them for not being inside academia, when they allegedly were not allowed in in the first place. A scholar is either a student or someone who has achieved a mastery of some academic discipline. ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ... Peer review (known as refereeing in some academic fields) is a scholarly process used in the publication of manuscripts and in the awarding of funding for research. ...
An independent scholar must often become a memetic engineer or propagandist in order to advance his or her contribution to the history of ideas. Some are better at this than others and good ideas can go unrecognised. The Memetic Lexicon (also Lexicon) is a glossary of words used in memetics. ... North Korean propaganda showing a soldier destroying the United States Capitol building. ... The history of ideas is a field of research in history and related fields dealing with the expression, preservation, and change of human ideas over time. ...
The independent scholar is often an amateur rather than a professional although this is not always a matter of choice. The word amateur has at least two connotations. ... A professional does something as a profession, or receives payment for some activity. ...
Scholarly method - or as it is more commonly called, scholarship - is the body of principles and practices used by scholars to make their claims about the world as valid and trustworthy as possible, and to make them known to the scholarly public. ...
References
Gross, Ronald. The Independent Scholar's Handbook, ISBN 0898155215
The status of independentscholar is often an amateur rather than a professional although this is not always a matter of choice.
If independentscholars publish their work in non-traditional places (anywhere outside learned journals, that is) they are open to attack for lack of peer review.
An independentscholar must often become a memetic engineer, or propagandist in order to advance his or her contribution.
Evidence of the unique status society bestows upon scholars and men in the arts and humanities may be had, ironically, in the tradition of ridicule and satire that Western culture sometimes uses to caricature scientists and humanists by placing them outside of the domain of the daily economy of living.
Today, the residue of the scholars' traditional persona manifests itself as a belief that there is a scholastic warrant freely to access and use resources germane to a chosen enterprise -- for this enterprise is not done for the benefit of self, but rather for the good of the discipline.
Scholars, especially those in the humanities, are being asked to plant their feet in two isolated worlds that cannot together coexist: one is in the past, the other, in the present.
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