Yep, that’s what I’m aiming at in my other comment: there’s a fundamental problem with the epistemologies of modernism in that they assume the possibility of perfect knowledge of that which cannot be perfectly known, and it is especially complicated when modernism tries to focus on empericism yet also assumes empericism can grant objective knowledge. Postmodernism fails in other ways, specifically by undervaluing the intersubjective and the way it suggests the existence of stuff prior to observation.
Skeptical modernism seems to be moving in the right direction but, as you say, doesn’t seem to be paying enough attention to phenomenology and as such is addressing what I said were the surface level problems with modernism while missing the deeper epistemological issue.
“and as such is addressing what I said were the surface level problems with modernism while missing the deeper epistemological issue”—If you think the main purpose of Skeptical Modernism is to be true then you haven’t understood the purpose of this post.
Yep, that’s what I’m aiming at in my other comment: there’s a fundamental problem with the epistemologies of modernism in that they assume the possibility of perfect knowledge of that which cannot be perfectly known, and it is especially complicated when modernism tries to focus on empericism yet also assumes empericism can grant objective knowledge. Postmodernism fails in other ways, specifically by undervaluing the intersubjective and the way it suggests the existence of stuff prior to observation.
Skeptical modernism seems to be moving in the right direction but, as you say, doesn’t seem to be paying enough attention to phenomenology and as such is addressing what I said were the surface level problems with modernism while missing the deeper epistemological issue.
“and as such is addressing what I said were the surface level problems with modernism while missing the deeper epistemological issue”—If you think the main purpose of Skeptical Modernism is to be true then you haven’t understood the purpose of this post.