Science and Anthropology in a Post-Truth World: A Critique of Unreason and Academic Nonsense

By:

Sidky, H

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lanham Lexington Books 2021Description: 230pISBN:

9781793606532

DDC classification:

SI139 N35.1

Contents:

1 The War on Science and Reason and the Way to Post-Truth 2 Delegitimizing Science in the Academy: Ideological Underpinnings 3 Science Studies and the Anthropology of Science: How Postmodernists Sought to Demystify Truth 4 The Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity, Incomprehensibility, and the Sokal Hoax 5 American Intellectual Contributions to Science Delegitimation: Kuhn and Feyerabend 6 Epistemic Relativism: Is the World Truly Unknowable? 7 Epistemology: How Do We Know What We Know? 8 The Problem of Pseudoscience in Post-Truth America 9 Postmodern Anthropology: Epistemic Relativism and Incoherence as an Experimental Moment? 10 Paranormal and Theistic Anthropology: From Postmodernism to Post-Truth Supernaturalism 11 From Postmodernism to Post-Truth United States Bibliography Index About the Author

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1 The War on Science and Reason and the Way to Post-Truth
2 Delegitimizing Science in the Academy: Ideological
Underpinnings
3 Science Studies and the Anthropology of Science:
How Postmodernists Sought to Demystify Truth
4 The Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity, Incomprehensibility,
and the Sokal Hoax
5 American Intellectual Contributions to Science Delegitimation:
Kuhn and Feyerabend
6 Epistemic Relativism: Is the World Truly Unknowable?
7 Epistemology: How Do We Know What We Know?
8 The Problem of Pseudoscience in Post-Truth America
9 Postmodern Anthropology: Epistemic Relativism and
Incoherence as an Experimental Moment?
10 Paranormal and Theistic Anthropology: From Postmodernism
to Post-Truth Supernaturalism
11 From Postmodernism to Post-Truth United States
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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