"Eubulides" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Religions are not agents, either. Religions are as much agents as a virus is. >I’ll lower my expectations; can you point me to one text that is by a >self-identifying postmodernist that rejects science and rationality, the >author of which has had any sort of impact on contemporary societies >scientific research programs? Richard Dawkins has already done the work for me in http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/dawkins.html > Then we could perhaps have a discussion about how postmodernism has done more > to harm science and rationality than, say, legislators in the congresses and > parliaments of the world? That's not necessary. Just ignore the postmodernist writers. > There are all too few fallacy-free theories created by humans; sorry to > disappoint. One could argue it’s a fallacy to be desirous of a fallacy-free > theory or to hold that up as an a priori [a problematic term if ever there > was one] norm of rationality. It's in the nature of scientific theories to not be able to establish their truth. > I do have a list; it’s too big to share on pen-l. Is the list empty? > There will always be a need to philosophize; to paraphrase Keynes, we’re all > too often unwitting slaves of defunct philosophers, too. Like you and > everyone else on this list, I’m not into slavery. Does somebody want to start a thread on philosophy including DM? As Karl says (I haven't checked on this): "Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex" -- Ron
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