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Article
Abstract
[Editors' Introduction]
In an attempt to remove one of the major misunderstandings made by individuals in the humanities about contemporary physics, the issue of incredulity, this essay examines Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge against contemporary and twentieth-century theories and discoveries in physics. One of the best arguments against "incredulity" is the frequent use of "god" as metaphor within physics. In Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, two physicists, argue that the use of metaphor is one of the characteristics of "postmodern science"; this essay concludes with a discussion of those elements and interpretations of postmodernism that are applicable to both the humanities and the sciences.
Recommended Citation
Hardin, Michael "From GUTS to God: Credulity, Postmodernism, and Contemporary Physics." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, vol. 4, no. 4, 2004, pp. 1–14.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol4/iss4/3
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