@HPluckrose i read your article on "postmodernism" and am wondering how you reconcile your vision of "postmodern" thinkers as anti-science
I don't accept their version or the original version. I accept that its infected academia and activism.
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I agree with you that FT is problematic. I just think that when you place Foucault and Derridas (haven't read Lyotard enough) >
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in context with the french epistemological tradition, it becomes clearer that they are concerned not with flimsy relativism, but
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are actually just continuing the french project of understanding the conditions of scientific truths. Saying that science is >
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conditioned and that these conditions may be material or cultural is not the same as saying that scientific truths have no value
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(Well, it would be a problem if you were thinking Kant was some sort of relativist/anti-science, but it doesn't seem like it)
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