Date/Time
Date(s) - 01/12/2019
12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Location
The Draft House Westbridge
The philosophical and sociological Postmodernism of the 1970s to 90s, most specifically its relativisation of ‘truth’, stands accused by some of contributing to undesirable features in today’s popular politics. We will examine Postmodernism’s past altercations with Science to see how this may have come about. On the way we will look at ‘Modernism’, the Western ‘Postmodern Condition’, the concept of the ‘Social Construction of Science’, the ‘Science Wars’, ‘The Sokal Hoax’ and, in particular, the philosophical and sociological thought of Bruno Latour. Are today’s ‘Climate Change Denial’ and ’Anti-vaxxing’ movements products of late 20th Century intellectual Postmodernism?