ISBN: 1598583786

Terrific. .The dialogues are great fun. I sat back and enjoyed it." ---William H. Shaw "Total devastation. Splendid book. An absolutely first class piece of work." ---Antony Flew So… More...

Terrific. .The dialogues are great fun. I sat back and enjoyed it." ---William H. Shaw "Total devastation. Splendid book. An absolutely first class piece of work." ---Antony Flew Some say we can't really know anything, unless we first irrationally accept some things blindly on faith. Is that true? And what is truth, anyway? Is objective truth a bankrupt notion, as postmodernists say? They also say observations are always theory-laden and everything is socially constructed, "including giraffes." Of course, this means "all knowledge is essentially political," and "science is best seen as a socially constructed discourse that legitimates its power by presenting itself as truth." Worse than that, "there is no procedure called 'turning to the facts'.there is no procedure of 'justification in light of the facts' which can be opposed to consilience of one's own opinion with those of others." Rather, "the notion of accurate representation is simply an automatic and empty compliment we pay to beliefs which help us to do what we want to do." Unfortunately, postmodernists didn't get that way on account of ignoring the teachings of the Philosophy department, but on account of sincerely imbibing them. The terrible truth is that postmodernism is what happens when somebody who believes what he reads, reads the Philosophy canon. Avoiding technical jargon and presented in the form of a spirited dialogue between a professor and student, The Slightest Philosophy attacks what it epistemology,philosophy,politics and social sciences Philosophy, Dog Ear Publishing, LLC<

ISBN: 1598583786

Terrific. .The dialogues are great fun. I sat back and enjoyed it." ---William H. Shaw "Total devastation. Splendid book. An absolutely first class piece of work." ---Antony Flew Some… More...

Terrific. .The dialogues are great fun. I sat back and enjoyed it." ---William H. Shaw "Total devastation. Splendid book. An absolutely first class piece of work." ---Antony Flew Some say we can't really know anything, unless we first irrationally accept some things blindly on faith. Is that true? And what is truth, anyway? Is objective truth a bankrupt notion, as postmodernists say? They also say observations are always theory-laden and everything is socially constructed, "including giraffes." Of course, this means "all knowledge is essentially political," and "science is best seen as a socially constructed discourse that legitimates its power by presenting itself as truth." Worse than that, "there is no procedure called 'turning to the facts'.there is no procedure of 'justification in light of the facts' which can be opposed to consilience of one's own opinion with those of others." Rather, "the notion of accurate representation is simply an automatic and empty compliment we pay to beliefs which help us to do what we want to do." Unfortunately, postmodernists didn't get that way on account of ignoring the teachings of the Philosophy department, but on account of sincerely imbibing them. The terrible truth is that postmodernism is what happens when somebody who believes what he reads, reads the Philosophy canon. Avoiding technical jargon and presented in the form of a spirited dialogue between a professor and student, The Slightest Philosophy attacks what it see epistemology,philosophy,politics and social sciences Philosophy, Dog Ear Publishing, LLC<