Word: modernisme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Post-modernism regards partiality in science aspart of an inescapable universal bias. Accordingto post-modernist theory, no truths can beuniversally held, since all concepts of trutharise from local influences.
"It's hard to counter [the anti-sciencemovement] because it's so obviously wrong," saysGeorgi. Calling post-modernism a disease, he says,"I wish I knew why it was so popular."
Georgi admits that the anti-science philosophycorrectly recognizes the huge social structuresurrounding science. But he says post-modernism"misses the point that there's something beneaththat structure."
"Apply post-modernism to post-modernism," saysHerschbach, suggesting that a philosophy thatdenies all absolutes cannot admit its ownexistence.
Emphasizing the paradox of post-modernism hesays,"...if you want to be rigorouslyphilosophical you can say you never know anythingabout anything."