Give me your best defences of postmodernism. Tell me why it isn't undermining our respect for truth, science, evidence, reason, consistency.
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It in general: maybe not. But e.g. Butler analysing the feminist political subject did a pretty good job at it.
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Butler did? Did she not say the subject is in always in state of flux and then essentially leave us in the mess?
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I'd say the mess was there before. She just pointed at it. It's not surprising if the land of unspoken premises tends to be incoherent.
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Showing contradictions (e.g. in the White woman as a subject of liberation) shouldn't undermine respect for values.
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Well, no, The way this is done is laden with values. But can the way it is done undermine respect for truth because of those values?
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I will concede that claims of universal truth can be undermined. But I think that's a good thing and makes science better.
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But can science work if it can never claim anything to be (provisionally) true? If it doesn't aim for objective truth?
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Sure, you just have to state under what assumptions your truth holds. Same as in logic.
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