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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 16

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Areo

      OK, tweeps, here we go. I will be responding to this shortly. Pls read with an open mind. This is a good faith perspective on benefits of postmodernism from someone who sees the problem with what many (but not he) call the postmodern left. I disagree with his take on it, ofc.https://twitter.com/AreoMagazine/status/985725463778639872 …

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      Areo @AreoMagazine
      The Necessity of Postmodernism in the Post-Truth Age https://areomagazine.com/2018/04/15/the-necessity-of-postmodernism-in-the-post-truth-age/ …
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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 16

      But it is useful because it argues much more clearly and honestly than often the case for what many see as the important role of deconstructing & challenging comfortable assumptions provided by pomo. I think this ultimately erroneous coz assumes pomo only & good way to do this

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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 16

      I think it makes common error in its perception of role & nature of science by practically conflating it with 'common sense' (a comfortable metanarrative) but opens up possibility of productive conversation between ppl who value scepticism & critical interrogation of assumptions.

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 16

      About the best way to do that. I, as you know, take the position that pomo is a terrible way to do that because it dismantles indiscriminately without a coherent method for evaluating worth of systems /sets of beliefs/epistemologies it targets. Critical analysis needs this.

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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 16

          This is the difference between a radical scepticism which takes everything apart but does not allow for the existence of objective truth and a productive scepticism which takes things apart in the service of finding truth.

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 16

          The core of the problem with the original postmodernists was that they critiqued things on the grounds that they were metanarratives - large overarching explanations of complex phenomena - rather than on the grounds of whether or not they were true.

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        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 16

          Lyotards target "metanarratives" were Christianity, Marxism and science. It should be clear that if Christianity were true, it wouldnt matter in the slightest that it were also a large overarching explanation of complex phenomena. It would be the right explanation.

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        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 16

          The same is true of Marxism. If it explained society accurately, it wouldnt matter that that explanation were big and covered a lot of ground.

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        6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 16

          Science isnt a metanarrative. Its a method but some of its theories are overarching explanations for complex phenomena - eg evolution fits that description perfectly. If the explanation is correct, it should not be suspicious purely on the grounds that it explains a lot.

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