[lit-ideas] Before and After Grice
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- Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 05:25:15 -0400 (EDT)
Grice and After: Four Modern Irrationalists
In a message dated 5/5/2013 6:04:22 P.M. UTC-02, donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx
writes:
This useful url applies "critical rationalism" ['CR'] to, or gives a
"Popperian" treatment of, post-modernism - which it treats seriously enough:-
depicting it as a recent intellectual reaction against 'justificationism', and
seeing post-modernism as rightly sceptical of traditional
'justificationism' but mistaken in thinking that without 'justificationism' we
are left
with a standardless free-for-all in terms of intellectual evaluation.
http://web.warwick.ac.uk/philosophy/pli_journal/pdfs/miller_pli_9.pdf
Thanks.
For the record, the title and the references, below.
"Postmodernism" used once:
"Postmodernism may or
may not be dernier cri, but it is surely not the last word in meretricious
desipience."
"postmodernist" used twice:
"Unless the champions of rationalism can make their candidate decidedly
more presentable, postmodernist fads will simply give way in due course
to other fads that are equally scornful of reason."
"Sokal & Bricmont have
driven the postmodernist ruffians back into the jungle of the quartier
latin;
but, neglecting the claims of Popper’s critical rationalism to offer just
the
right mixture of absolutism and scepticism, they have taken the advice of
the old oligarchs, and have re-endorsed all those discredited authoritarian
principles whose hollowness irrationalists have so often and so readily
discerned."
AND "modern" used three times:
"This doctrine was stated pungently
by Hume, the father of modern scepticism about knowledge, and has been
fully endorsed by Popper (see p. 60)."
"Stove [1982] (subtitle: Four Modern Irrationalists)"
"Stove, D.A. [1982], Popper and After. Four Modern Irrationalists.
Pergamon Press, Oxford & elsewhere."
Cheers,
Speranza
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Miller, D. "Sokal & Bricmont: Back to the Frying Pan"
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