Postmodernism, when done well, is about undermining illegitimate epistemology. Using the extreme of a technique as the centre is like saying all evolution proponents are Eugenics supporters (one of the many illegitimate scientific ideologies Postmodern critique helped undermine)
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So what according to your understanding of postmodernism is a legitimate epistemology?
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There are many. I support scientific epistemologies regularly ( i.e. climate science, vaccination science, evolutionary science). I believe in empirical research. But as someone who has studied it, I don't believe all postmodern critique is about undermining legitimate science.
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But what is the method? Science itself is a method for undermining faulty truth claims particularly its own. Its methods are falsification, peer review, requirement for replication, rewarding discovery of error, regarding all findings as provisional. How does PoMo go about this?
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The word 'science' is a good example. By calling Eugenics a science, eugenicists were able to get their policies adopted in many countries (e.g. Australia and the US), when it was prejudiced ideology dressed up as science. Psychology did similar things to women and homosexuals.
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Yes, but how does postmodernism show us this? Surely it was recognised that eugenics were often used to enforce illiberal and fascistic ideologies before postmodernism gained prominence? Liberal humanism had some objections to it. How does PoMo address it better?
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