Hmm. What do we think of this? I'm inclined to think identifying postmodern content in university courses is not an unethical thing to do. Could be very useful.http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-edition-1.4396970/u-of-t-profs-alarmed-by-jordan-peterson-s-plan-to-target-classes-he-calls-indoctrination-cults-1.4396974 …
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Disagree. He thinks Sky Fairy is objectively true.
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Show me? He might do but his epistemology is explicitly against this. First two from Maps of Meaning.pic.twitter.com/o2dWnBPYIv
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Interesting. A@d his reference to knowledge as it were as “what is useful” (to survive in an environment) isn’t all that diff from Rorty.
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Precisely. I mistook him for a postmodernist for a long time & now I understand his stance better, I still have the same problems with it that I have with postmodern epistemology.
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That is incorrect. He believes in empirical fact as much as anyone while also believing there are truths that are not tangible this unable to be examined scientifically. In those snippets from his book, he's saying the scientific method provides facts without truth for being.
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Nonsense, see podcasts with Harris and Rogan where they tried to find common ground on this which we can all believe . egpic.twitter.com/NrenK99VCh
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