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Concluding Thought: On Convictions, Persuasion, and Sharing
After running continuously for more than two years, this will be the last installment of Polydoxy. Look for V.V....
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Reaction of Working Scientists to Postmodernist Criticisms
A number of philosophers of science have reacted to postmodernism in forceful ways. Most of these are people who...
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Postmodernism and Anti-Science Movements
It is not surprising that in our age anti-science movements are growing strong. These may be put under four...
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Postmodern Physics and More
Postmodernism has infected technical physics also in subtle ways. Recall that the central theme of postmodernism is that all...
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More on Postmodernism and the Non-Universality of Science
From the founding of the scientific academies in Europe in the seventeenth century up until the middle of the...
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Postmodernist View of Science as Colonialist Creation
The history of humanity is characterized by many wars and cultural incursions, religious conversions and cultural transformations. Greek and...
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Feminist Critiques of Science
It is no great secret that all through history, and in practically all cultures, men have been dominating women....
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Sociology of Science
Sociology was among the many new disciplines initiated by scientific methodology during the nineteenth century. Its goal was to...
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Postmodernist Theses
Already in the early parts of the twentieth century there were currents against modernism, especially in art and architecture...
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Prelude to Post-modernism
By the close of the nineteenth century, physics and biology, science more generally, had attained a level of success...