dmb, I shudder to think where you learned such tactics.
Marsha On Sep 6, 2013, at 5:15 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > This post is dedicated to my dear friend Marsha. > > > Can a psychopath be a good philosopher? > > > "There is a strong analogy here with postmodernism. Just as psychopaths lack > moral virtues and values and do not want them, postmodernists lack epistemic > virtues and values and do not want them. There is a trend in philosophy of > science, in trying to distinguish science from pseudoscience and nonscience, > which is not to look for any one or few essentialistic features but to find > the distinction in a cluster-class of epistemic virtues and values that > promote the pursuit of knowledge. Among these are being clear, valuing > evidence, exposing theories to testing, not being dogmatic, keeping > explanations and explanatory entities as simple as possible, and not letting > politics determine good scholarship. This is why no religion or theology is a > science and why astrology and homeopathy are not real sciences either. They > lack epistemic virtues and values. And postmodernists lack them too. They > lack them, and moreover they don’t want them. In fact, in analogy with the > narcissism of psychopaths, postmodernists view themselves as superior to > those who possess epistemic virtues and values. They see themselves as above > such things, as superior. “You don’t really think that people believe because > of arguments, do you?” is a common question put by postmodernists, usually > with an arrogant and condescending tone." > > See the full article at > http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=fi&page=stamos_31_5 > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
