So much dishonesty, "They called on science & reason to support James Damore saying women were biologically inferior but refuse to acknowledge that it's irrational to say that people are inferior because they're women." (Paraphrasing) Lies but illogical even if it were truehttps://twitter.com/BristolBen/status/994245846433705984 …
Yes, absolutely. It's counterintuitive but it comes down to this belief that the world is constructed by discourses - ways of talking about things - and that everything is culturally constructed in this way within hierarchies of identities. Saying things makes it reality.pic.twitter.com/J6DWlEPK3j
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you link this often but i think jstangroom recently criticized at least the short form - do you have longer conversations from a historic vs modern usage context with the philosopher sorts?
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I don't know what the last bit means. This is way I look at it. https://areomagazine.com/2017/03/27/how-french-intellectuals-ruined-the-west-postmodernism-and-its-impact-explained/ …https://areomagazine.com/2018/02/07/no-postmodernism-is-not-dead-and-other-misconceptions/ …
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Sorry that was confusing - still used to trying to cut down for 140. I guess I was looking for not as much a longer article but a discussion or debate about fuller context and history with someone w/contrary views and is more of a philosopher [as in not an activist sj type]
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. I'm less interested in philosophical precursors to postmodernism than its key ideas and how they've evolved and are being implemented now. Stephen Hicks' Understanding Postmodernism & David Detmer's Challenging Postmodernism might be what you're looking for.
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The history evolving into the current is the full context i was referring to in this case - thanks for the recs. i do find it more engrossing and sometimes deeper to have 2 to 4 voices contrasting and complementing each other - at least when done in mutually respectful format
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Well, that's what I sent. You can find me responding to someone else in 'Skepticism is needed in our Post-truth Age. Postmodernism is not.'
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"Saying things make it reality". It just occured to me that the reason some want to make certain topics verboten, is because they think if you entertain the possibily of say IQ varying between populations, you open the door to becoming a nazi if that is what the data shows. And
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if you're open to becoming a nazi, you already are one. Hence the accusations being hurled based on nothing else but being open to discuss certain ideas.
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This is surreal.