> http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/dworkin/papers/objectivity.html
"Selective skepticism about value, under the name of "subjectivism" or "emotivism," has for a long time been regarded as the most plausible form of archimedean skepticism. It is also the most dangerous. No one--not even the most committed post-modernist or anti-foundationalist--thinks his views should affect how physicists or mathematicians actually work. But it is now strenuously argued that since there is no objective truth about interpretation or art or morality there can be no standard of merit or success in artistic or moral or legal thought beyond the interest a theory arouses and the academic dominion it secures. This auto-da-fe of truth has compromised public and political as well as academic discussion." (Dworkin)
This is *such* crap -- ignorant pomo-bashing (he quotes not one single line or one single thinker), plus turgid neo-Kantian drivel about how it's just so terribly difficult to judge anything these days. A fine example of the types of individuals who thrive in the corporatized university system.
-- Dennis