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People trying to win respectability for clearly discredited theories—or, in the case of Holocaust revisionists, trying to whitewash entire chapters of history—exploited the postmodernist argument that all truths are partial.
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Sumayya Vally • New Forms of Articulation: Sumayya Vally in conversation with Esther Choi — Deem
Science, too, came under attack by radical postmodernists, who argued that scientific theories are socially constructed: they are informed by the identity of the person positing the theory and the values of the culture in which they are formed; therefore, science cannot possibly make claims to neutrality or universal truths.
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Anderson joins philosopher Angela Potochnik and others in arguing that there exists no privileged scale for explanation. In fact each scale is characterized by its own laws, concepts, and generalizations, which cannot be explained by those of any other scale.
Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
What it means to decolonize a thing that is not literally colonized varies considerably. It can refer simply to including scholars of all nationalities and races: this is the primary focus of the United Kingdom’s National Union of Students (NUS) campaigns, “Why is My Curriculum White?” (2015) and #LiberateMyDegree (2016).23 Such campaigns focus on
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
