Postmodernism is the dominant paradigm in academic philosophy today
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The retrieved sources mention postmodernism as a cultural or philosophical approach and reference various other paradigms, but none provide direct evidence establishing whether postmodernism is the dominant paradigm in academic philosophy today.
an epochal shift, rather postmodernism is the cultural dominant, or cultural logic, of the … Differend is the most wide-sweeping result of this reconsideration. What exactly is the problem … work in which Lyotard is the most valuable about postmodernism is, I think, his earlier
seems to be at odds with the dominant self- understanding of academic philosophy. The latter has often taken … ahistorically, as the dominant theological and philosophical ap- proaches do, “by [just] asking what is the relation … what is the rela- tion between religion and ethics is to already have made a mistake.” This is the task
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Complexity and Philosophy
The science of complexity is based on a new way of thinking that stands in sharp contrast to the philosophy underlying Newtonian science, which is based on reductionism, determinism, and objective knowledge. This paper reviews the historical development of this new world view, focusing on its philosophical foundations. Determinism was challenged by quantum mechanics and chaos theory. Systems theory replaced reductionism by a scientifically based holism. Cybernetics and postmodern social science showed that knowledge is intrinsically subjective. These developments are being integrated under the header of "complexity science". Its central paradigm is the multi-agent system. Agents are intrinsically subjective and uncertain about their environment and future, but out of their local interactions, a global organization emerges. Although different philosophers, and in particular the postmodernists, have voiced similar ideas, the paradigm of complexity still needs to be fully assimilated by philosophy. This will throw a new light on old philosophical issues such as relativism, ethics and the role of the subject. Published as: In Bogg, J. and R.
[cs/0604072] Complexity and Philosophy Skip to main content Search arXiv Press Enter to search · Advanced search --> Computer Science > Computational Complexity arXiv:cs/0604072 (cs) [Submitted on 19 Apr 2006] Title: Complexity and Philosophy Authors: Francis Heylighen , Paul Cilliers , Carlos Gershenson View a PDF of the paper titled Complexity and Philosophy, by Francis Heylighen and 2 other authors View PDF Abstract: The science of complexity is based on a new way of thinking that stands in sharp contrast to the philosophy underlying Newtonian science, which is based on reductionism, determinism, and objective knowledge.
This paper reviews the historical development of this new world view, focusing on its philosophical foundations. Determinism was challenged by quantum mechanics and chaos theory. Systems theory replaced reductionism by a scientifically based holism. Cybernetics and postmodern social science showed that knowledge is intrinsically subjective. These developments are being integrated under the header of "complexity science". Its central paradigm is the multi-agent system. Agents are intrinsically subjective and uncertain about their environment and future, but out of their local interactions, a global organization emerges.
Although different philosophers, and in particular the postmodernists, have voiced similar ideas, the paradigm of complexity still needs to be fully assimilated by philosophy. This will throw a new light on old philosophical issues such as relativism, ethics and the role of the subject. Comments: 21 pages Subjects: Computational Complexity (cs.CC) ; Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other) Cite as: arXiv:cs/0604072 [cs.CC] (or arXiv:cs/0604072v1 [cs.CC] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cs/0604072 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Journal reference: In Bogg, J. and R. Geyer (eds.) Complexity, Science and Society. Radcliffe Publishing, Oxford. 2007.
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