“Postmodernism, as it applies to science, is the philosophical position that science is nothing more than a cultural narrative and therefore has no special or privileged relationship with the truth.” ...

When I taught physics at Yale in the 1980s and ’90s, my colleagues and I took pride in our position on “science hill,” looking down on the humanities scholars in the intellectual valleys below as they ...

Science may be a tried and tested way of knowing what we know, but it’s under threat. In Australia, leading science agency CSIRO is expected to cut up to 350 research roles. A CSIRO staffer said it ...

The topography in which SF criticism operates has been long established. There is, on the one hand, the "mainstream," that "outside" of SF where the literary/institutional determinations of the ...

Readers of Science magazine must have been surprised when they opened the December 22 issue and found an essay-review (much longer than the typical Science book review) by David Foster Wallace, writer ...

In Part 1 of this series, I discussed the illusion of knowledge in the context of COVID-19 and explained how much of what we think we know is actually belief, taken as truth, because it came from a ...

William Lyons is director of policy partnerships for the Howard Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Tennessee. Most people don’t pay ...

This blog is co-authored by Daniel Görtz. He is a sociologist, social theorist, and writer. He holds a Ph.D. in police ethnography from Lund University and has been active in publishing books and ...

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Border Policing: Postmodernism and Science Fiction The topography in which SF criticism operates has been long established. There is, on the one hand, the "mainstream," that "outside" of SF where the ...