TimS comments on Rationality: Appreciating Cognitive Algorithms - LessWrong

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Comment author: TimS 10 October 2012 09:21:04PM 0 points [-]

As a discipline, postmodernism seems unusually terrible at producing competent practitioners. The average academic chemist is a better scientist than the average postmodernist is as a philosopher.

That said, a lot of conventional wisdom in fields like sociology or Legal Realism have very strong postmodern flavors. Honestly, a lot of the meta-type analysis of norms is using scientific data to show what various humanities thinkers had been saying all along.