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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. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

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      Postmodernism is often not mentioned or denied At post-grad, I could have hugged my prof for saying 'Postmodernism is silly. We won't be doing it.' Sixth months later he penalised me for saying sexual selection is real & suggesting racism best overcome by not obsessing abt race. https://twitter.com/anztav72/status/980860197626417152 …

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

      Gottschall, Boyd & Carroll's excellent book Evolution, Literature and Film looks at this. Argues there's been a mellowing of 'theory', not a demise & that 'denaturalisation' (social constructivism) has been internalised even by academics who consider themselves empirical.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

      This is very much my perception. Few academics admit to being postmodernists or even to denying objective reality or science but if you try bringing it into your work, there is trouble. 'This is conservative' I was told for saying evolutionary psychology is useful.

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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

          Another time, I singlehandedly condemned women to an 'awful beauty myth fate' by saying that men's attraction to young and beautiful women was rooted in evolutionary psychology rather than socially constructed devaluation & objectification of women coz patriarchy.

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 2

          Another time, I was told that my claim that hormones play some part in behavioural differences between men & women was false because prof's friend's little boy had both anger management problems & low testosterone problems. Case closed. I despair.

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        2. Reigning in Hell‏ @Themosthuman Apr 2
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          Postmodernism is usually applied selectively towards ideas people don’t like, often invoking historical context to discredit it. If you applied it in full, it would collapse in on itself

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        3. Reigning in Hell‏ @Themosthuman Apr 2
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          Some professors aren’t explicit in what they are doing or the basis for their reasoning. My college English course was full of post colonial literature that was just presented as literature, obfuscating the fact that those books were chosen to present a narrative

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        1. Michael J. Caruso‏ @MJ_Caruso Apr 2
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          Ideas were almost never presented as postmodern in nature when I was getting my degree. I always just referred to it as "jibber-jabber" or "utter bullshit" until I later learned the concept of postmodernism on my own.

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