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KaliYugaz  ·  3189 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tim Hunt, Sexism and the Cult of Science

    Or, as the late American philosopher Richard Rorty said, “Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.”

Lol, Rorty. It's good that she is familiar with him, but she could certainly have gone deeper into explaining who postempiricist/pragmatist philosophers like Rorty, Kuhn, and Feyerabend were and why their arguments against Hunt's naive philosophy of science as a search for Absolute Truth are compelling. Philosophy of science hasn't believed in such notions of absolute scientific truth for close to a century now.

The author also fails to explain the connection between patriarchy and epistemic overreach in the sciences, if there even is any.