Very interesting piece. However, I do not say that we need to go backwards and in fact, addressed that accusation in the piece cited when I argue that the modern project & liberalism is inherently progressive. https://areomagazine.com/2017/12/08/the-problem-with-truth-and-reason-in-a-post-truth-society/ …https://twitter.com/QuilletteM/status/951445892480909315 …
Good. You won't be a pre-modern then. You don't want to get rid of science, liberal democracy etc
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Well, my view is that nothing's gonna undo science other than science itself (so no, and I don't believe theologians who say otherwise). On liberal democracy I'm more, um, explorative
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Science as knowledge will survive. Science as an institution is threatened in different ways by the far-right and far-left.
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But Newtonian physics hasn't survived. Science undid it.
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Yes, science is self-correcting. It holds that knowledge is always provisional and tries to falsify findings to weed out error.
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Science survives. The knowledge it produces is provisional, constantly corrected & updated.
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But content changes method, they develop together
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So what endures? Commitment to truth?
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