The shrinking world of ideas

I'm doing a talk on Monday to my School on qualitative research, and my big theme is that qualitative research far too much qualitative research is saying far too little.  Ideas, theory and philosophy are being squeezed out by an unhealthy concern for research methods.

This point is made far more elegantly here which, if I'd had it when I was writing my talk, would have saved me a lot of time.

http://chronicle.com/article/Neuroscience-Is-Ruining-the/150141/