What I find interesting is that the IDW, who claim to engage in open discourse, has a following who really can’t think for themselves. Their ideas has to align with at least one person from the IDW, and any criticism automatically makes you a postmodernist.
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Replying to @SOhawkins21 @femalestuds and
Also, the IDW has no idea what postmodernism really is, as becomes apparent when you read its members' critiques of it. They attack a straw man so massive that, were you to set it on fire, the crew of the International Space Station could see it.
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Replying to @gorskon @femalestuds and


yeah I agree. I think the criticism of it is overly simplified. I don’t agree w/everything postmodernist say, but I’m also not going to denigrate an entire field of study & scholarship simply because of political differences; while placing science on the top of the alter1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @SOhawkins21 @gorskon and
I don't think most people do denigrate an entire field tho. I addressed that here in the section about accusations of reductionism.https://areomagazine.com/2018/02/07/no-postmodernism-is-not-dead-and-other-misconceptions/ …
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Replying to @HPluckrose @SOhawkins21 and
No-one is criticising postmodern architecture because it doesn't matter. It is a few key ideas which have evolved through successive waves of critical theory, entered activism trading on the good name of feminism, civil rights movement etc & impacted mainstream social conscience.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @SOhawkins21 and
And science simply is the best method we have for establishing what is (provisionally) true. I'm not very interested in it and way more so in politics and culture but it is the best skeptical, critical method going.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @gorskon and
Sure, I think science should be valued and accepted. But it’s one form of inquiry that we have and it’s very important. That said, science can’t and shouldn’t solve every issue. There is such a thing as scientism and scientific overreach.
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Do many people claim science can solve every issue. Surely, it just tells us what is true on various, factual levels and is more likely to be right than other methods. Evidence-based knowledge over standpoint theory, for example.
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Scientism has occurred in the past and I think it re-emerged with the advent of new atheism. Every great thing you have to say about science is something I’ll agree with (just look at my bio). But I’m also someone who questions everything before accepting it as fact.
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Yes, of course. That attitude is necessary for science.
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