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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I don't agree about the New Atheists but I do think questioning everything and accepting that knowledge is always provisional and making efforts to disprove things we thought were true are central to science.
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I’ll exclude Harris, Dennett, & Hitchens from my original claim. But I’ve witnessed it w/Krauss, Shermer, Dawkins, Pinker, and at times N.G. Tyson. And it pains me because I’m fans of virtually all of them.
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Scientism in Pinker?
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Replying to @SOhawkins21 @HPluckrose and
I tend to try to understand both sides before I cast judgement. In the end, I value science, but by nature and instinct I’m always skeptical and curious
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I want science to remain skeptical and curious. I don't actually want to do it myself but I want to be able to trust the system to try to disprove its own findings and reward people who do so.
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