{"id":2854,"date":"2011-12-19T15:08:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T22:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2012-01-13T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T01:11:00","slug":"the-price-of-shunning-the-postmodernist-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/the-price-of-shunning-the-postmodernist-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Shunning the Challenge of Postmodernism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Some scientists and exponents of &#8220;scientism&#8221; will be tempted to turn their back on [the challenges posed by <strong>epistemological relativism<\/strong>: attacks on the <strong>objectivity<\/strong> of science]. They may well suppose that, if people who can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t do the hard work to understand science wish to pretend it isn&#8217;t the best approximation to the truth about the world we have, that is their problem. <em>And if there are people whose wish that there be a reality &#8211; religious, spiritual, holistic, metaphysical &#8211; that transcends anything that science can know about, leads them to the thought that science is blinkered and partial in its account of the truth, well, who are we scientists to take them from their dogmatic slumbers? <\/em>But the stakes for science and for civilization are too high simply to treat those who deny its objectivity in the way we would treat those who claim the Earth is flat.&#8221; &#8211; Alex Rosenberg (2005), &#8216;Philosophy of Science&#8217;, p. 191. (Emphasis mine)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Some scientists and exponents of &#8220;scientism&#8221; will be tempted to turn their back on [the challenges posed by epistemological relativism: attacks on the objectivity of science]. They may well suppose that, if people who can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t do the hard work to understand science wish to pretend it isn&#8217;t the best approximation to the truth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/the-price-of-shunning-the-postmodernist-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Price of Shunning the Challenge of Postmodernism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophocastry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2894,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions\/2894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}