Extensive profile on Bruno Latour, the French philosopher whose work helped create the science wars of the 1990s, and gave cover to those who don’t believe in objective reality.
HT @NobodysMonopoly—thank you. 1/6https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/magazine/bruno-latour-post-truth-philosopher-science.html …
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So social commentators should think about the logical endpoints, including social outcome, of their work? That is a huge responsibility, hard to predict, and separate from truth. I will check out the article but I am asking your position on this,
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I agree with you. Requiring people to be responsible for the abuse of their ideas stops good discussions in their tracks. But I view Latour as internally inconsistent on this front. He is trying to have it both ways, which requires not recognizing what his work actually suggests.
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Hmm. I'll keep your thoughts in mind as I read.
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Latour LITERALLY WROTE one of the best papers criticizing the point of view he's espousing here. http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/89-CRITICAL-INQUIRY-GB.pdf …
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The article is riddled with round-trip fallacy, hindsight bias, juiced in dimension-folding narrative. Let us be clear: a biased mind interviewed a biased postmodern philosopher, 'cause Trump, bro. Bottom-up, inductive minds don't require insulting others to seek the truth.
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That’s a cool name though
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I am no fan of Latour. Still, I thought this was well written and helpful piece. He represents an important moment in the history of ideas.
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While *aspects* of Latour's argmnts seem questionable, seems also some truth - Ur "logical end point" also seems based on questionable premises, on Ur own "subjective narrative". C
@FinneElizabeth's http://quillette.com/2018/03/19/the-tyranny-of-the-subjective/ … And my https://medium.com/@steersmann/horns-of-a-dilemma-tyrannies-of-the-subjective-and-objective-narratives-dd84461fb764 … - which Finne applauded.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The essence of Post-Modernism is to bury a subtle contradiction deeply enough to evade casual scrutiny for decades, that then can be used to prove any and all absurdities; since "one who can make you believe an absurdity, can make you commit atrocities."
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Godel's Theorem: Any formal system of sufficient complexity to express the basic arithmetic of the natural numbers is either incomplete, or inconsistent. Post-Modernism attempts to be complete, and thus attains its inconsistency.
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