Cracks in Pomo
The fact is that almost NO philosopher defends these strong foundationalist epistemologies. But almost NO philosopher denies that both everyday and scientific discourse are guided by reasonably reliably, pragmatic, effective standards. Both philosophical positions these days are found somewhere in the middle.
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Does Jordan Peterson understand post-modernism?
“If all beliefs are equally true or historically contingent, if the belief in reason is simply an ethnocentric Western prejudice, then there is no superior moral position from which to judge even the most abhorrent practices—as well as, of course, no epistemological basis for postmodernism itself.”
Alexander C. Karp • The Technological Republic: The Sunday Times bestseller from the great minds behind Palantir
As a philosophical standpoint, postmodernism is primarily a reinterpretation of what knowledge is and what counts as knowledge. More broadly, it represents a form of cultural relativism about such things as reality, truth, reason, value, linguistic meaning, the self, and other notions. On a postmodernist view, there is no such thing as objective
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