I would quite like to be better informed about what the various postmodern positions actually are.
Everyone feels this way, including postmodernists.
Or is it simply too broad a subject to ever get a reasonable birds-eye view?
Maybe. Can you give me a better idea of A) what the debate is about exactly and B) what your background is with philosophy?
Fair point :)
I've little formal philosophical training other than a little logic and what I've picked up out of my own personal interest.
The debate is about whether the general public's surprise when scientific consensus turns out to be wrong is explained by a misconception of realism. My counter-claim is that science attempts to approximate, and hopefully gets closer over time to, truth, and that no one should be overly surprised when a scientific theory is overturned in light of new evidence.
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