Ethical foundations of the left

Luke Benjamin Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Sun Jul 22 19:47:50 PDT 2001



> Another point, is that assuming that Justin has represented
> Posner's position correctly, then he sounds suspiciously
> like a pomo. Many other pomos have drawn upon views
> akin to Duhemian holism to justify a relativist epistemology,
> in ways that Quine would most certainly have disapproved.
>
> Jim F.

Justin has indeed accurately represented Posner's positions. However, pragmatism is much more sophisticated than post-modernism in that its best thinkers are in the mode of the classic skeptics: they employ powerful analytical arguments to undermine argument itself.

-- Luke



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