Stand to Reason: Truth, Contemporary Philosophy, and the Postmodern Turn

Stand to Reason: Truth, Contemporary Philosophy, and the Postmodern Turn: These are postmodern times, or so we are often told, and the classic model, once ensconced deeply in the Western psyche, must now be replaced by a neo-pragmatist or some other anti-realist model of truth, at least for those concerned with the rampant victimization raging all around us. Thus, 'We hold these truths to be self evident' now reads 'Our socially constructed selves arbitrarily agree that certain chunks of language are to be esteemed in our linguistic community.' Something has gone wrong here, and paraphrasing the words of Mad magazine’s Alfred E. Newman, 'We came, we saw, and we conked out!'