The Poverty of Truth-Seeking

The Poverty of Truth-Seeking Postmodernism, Discourse Analysis and Critical Feminism

In this article I examine one of the thorniest aspects of the relationship between feminism and postmodernism, in order to see what a discursive analytic approach can contribute to this important debate. The problem I refer to concerns the threat that the postmodern turn—despite its benefits—is said to pose for a politically committed feminism. I begin with a brief recapping of the postmodernis...

Rational action and truth-seeking

Seeking truth using different methods

Mathematics and physics are entirely different subjects, both in their methodology and results. The differences are illustrated with how they view randomness, enumeration, and truth. In physics, randomness can be an unknown, an observational error, an unpredictable event, or a quantum mystery. In math it is just part of probability theory. Mathematics has subtle properties of infinities that ph...

Seeking truth on Monte Verita

Department of Biological Sciences, Gilman Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755, USA Departments of Pathology and Molecular Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue Bronx, 0711 New York, New York 10461, USA Corresponding author. Tel: + 1 603 646 8706; Fax: +1 603 646 1347; E-mail: [email protected] Corresponding author. Tel: +1 718 43

conceptualizing and truth-seeking of the pure life from the viewpoint of the quran

the pure life (hayat al-tayyibah) is the real life of man which the worldly life with all its vast scope and the otherworldly life with its eternity and importance are the manifestations of this real life; this original and real life is a reality beyond the outward life and can be achieved in this world. the pure life is originated from high levels of human spirit; the faithful man in his subli...