07-23-2008, 07:30 AM
Because that's a normal academic thing to do if you're proposing a new interpretation of the evidence. The idea is that the academic allows others to check what is his new idea and exactly what references they rest on and so verify the new theory.
Simply listing books in the back is nice for further reading, but not the same. That's basically saying: "See, this is my theory and there is some stuff I didn't think of myself, but I'm not going to tell you what's originally mine and what's not. What's not mine can be found spread in bits and pieces over the pages of this pile of books." In short: useless for the aforementioned purpose.
Simply listing books in the back is nice for further reading, but not the same. That's basically saying: "See, this is my theory and there is some stuff I didn't think of myself, but I'm not going to tell you what's originally mine and what's not. What's not mine can be found spread in bits and pieces over the pages of this pile of books." In short: useless for the aforementioned purpose.
