In my previous post I set the stage for The Great Epistemic Swindle. The key take-away from that post is that our current “post-modern” epistemic landscape is dominated by the (Critical Social Justice - CSJ) belief that the preceding “modern” knowledge system (debate, reason, logic, science, the machinery of academic and other publishing) needed to be challenged, delegitimized, discredited, overturned and replaced. The reason for this is that it was seen to be rigged to advantage its creators (European males) at the expense of everyone else, even though it wasn’t any more “true” than any other way of seeing the world. This view led to a politicized knowledge production landscape that privileges how things
The Great Epistemic Swindle
The Great Epistemic Swindle
The Great Epistemic Swindle
In my previous post I set the stage for The Great Epistemic Swindle. The key take-away from that post is that our current “post-modern” epistemic landscape is dominated by the (Critical Social Justice - CSJ) belief that the preceding “modern” knowledge system (debate, reason, logic, science, the machinery of academic and other publishing) needed to be challenged, delegitimized, discredited, overturned and replaced. The reason for this is that it was seen to be rigged to advantage its creators (European males) at the expense of everyone else, even though it wasn’t any more “true” than any other way of seeing the world. This view led to a politicized knowledge production landscape that privileges how things