H. Sidky

Science and Anthropology in a Post-Truth World

A Critique of Unreason and Academic Nonsense

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, H. Sidky examines how a cadre of American academics influenced by French postmodern philosophy during the 1980's and 1990's informed and empowered the assault on science and truth by corporate organizations, post-truth politicians, religious extremists, and right-wing populists in the present post-truth era.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781793606518
• ISBN-10: 179360651X
• Artikelnr.: 59937549

Autorenporträt

By H. Sidky

Inhaltsangabe

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