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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. .‏ @xenocyberus 29 Mar 2017

      @HPluckrose i read your article on "postmodernism" and am wondering how you reconcile your vision of "postmodern" thinkers as anti-science

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    2. .‏ @xenocyberus 29 Mar 2017
      Replying to @xenocyberus @HPluckrose

      with the fact that philosophers like Foucault and Derrida, outside of the american "french theory" context (certainly a fad), >

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    3. .‏ @xenocyberus 29 Mar 2017
      Replying to @xenocyberus @HPluckrose

      are actually heirs to a french epistemological tradition (Bergson, Bachelard, Canguilhem) which in no way is anti-realist.

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    4. .‏ @xenocyberus 29 Mar 2017
      Replying to @xenocyberus @HPluckrose

      i would certainly agree with you that the way that french theory is certainly problematic (like all stupid fads/vulgarisations).

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    5. .‏ @xenocyberus 29 Mar 2017
      Replying to @xenocyberus @HPluckrose

      But i would argue that accepting "french theory's" version of these authors is giving them (the FT phenomenon) too much credit.

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    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 29 Mar 2017
      Replying to @xenocyberus @o_assassino

      I don't accept their version or the original version. I accept that its infected academia and activism.

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    7. .‏ @xenocyberus 29 Mar 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      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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    8. .‏ @xenocyberus 29 Mar 2017
      Replying to @xenocyberus @HPluckrose

      in context with the french epistemological tradition, it becomes clearer that they are concerned not with flimsy relativism, but

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    9. .‏ @xenocyberus 29 Mar 2017
      Replying to @xenocyberus @HPluckrose

      are actually just continuing the french project of understanding the conditions of scientific truths. Saying that science is >

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    10. .‏ @xenocyberus 29 Mar 2017
      Replying to @xenocyberus @HPluckrose

      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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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 29 Mar 2017
      Replying to @xenocyberus @o_assassino

      I think I've covered this. I am not claiming anything I haven't said.

      4:06 PM - 29 Mar 2017
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        2. .‏ @xenocyberus 29 Mar 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          You said Foucalt's work is "centered on language and relativism", that would seem like he's saying that truth has no value.pic.twitter.com/m5EEZk1ogC

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        3. .‏ @xenocyberus 29 Mar 2017
          Replying to @xenocyberus @HPluckrose

          I understand that your point (as you've said) is not to give a thorough account of these thinkers thoughts, i get that.

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        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 29 Mar 2017
          Replying to @xenocyberus @o_assassino

          No. Tracing epistemic & cultural relativity & identity politics back to its Leftist intellectual origins.

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        5. .‏ @xenocyberus 29 Mar 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          I just think that you start your text pinpointing (in the second paragraph) as being anti-realists when that isn't the case.

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        6. .‏ @xenocyberus 29 Mar 2017
          Replying to @xenocyberus @HPluckrose

          I would understand if you mentioned that it was a specific reading of these authors, alas, that is not what is done. But fine

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        7. .‏ @xenocyberus 29 Mar 2017
          Replying to @xenocyberus @HPluckrose

          you are aiming at something else, i understand that. But well, i don't think we are getting through each other, so lets leave it

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        8. .‏ @xenocyberus 29 Mar 2017
          Replying to @xenocyberus @HPluckrose

          And sorry about the time (i'm in Brazil, so i didn't think about the time). I thank you, though, for the civility of our chat!

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        9. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 29 Mar 2017
          Replying to @xenocyberus @o_assassino

          Thank you too. I can anticipate your objections but this wld be a long conversation. David Detmer addresses it well, I think.

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