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Postmodernism has led to the post-truth world today, argues Rebecca Goldstein, as she explains how the science wars has led to a mistrust in experts.
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In a post-truth world, tribal agreement seems to have replaced reason and evidence. But is a world where our truths are tribal sustainable? Don’t we need a shared framework of thought to prevent fragmentation and confrontation? Can we rely on evidence and reason whilst abandoning absolute truth, or do we need reality after all?
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Rebecca Goldstein: Rebecca Goldstein is a philosopher and author of Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away and 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction. Goldstein is a MacArthur Fellow and has received the National Humanities Medal, the National Jewish Book Award, and numerous other honors.
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When post modernists are put forward as 'the experts', who themselves believe experts offer nothing but arbitrary conclusions anyway, you have a much broader problem.
Kuhn is a Giant
I’ve never believed in postmodernism any new thing is modern till it gets old so postmodernists are now old hat. Best Koons is Jeff.
No. 'Qualifying existent truths does not 'prepare any way for denying truth.
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