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Is the author talking about philosophical postmodernism, a branch of epistemology, or is he talking about the literary and cultural expressions of it? I find it ironic that there is in the same issue of PN, a discussion of Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, which has often been prese...

Philosophers still seem worried about how thought can affect material things. I have always wondered why so much is made of this issue. To me, there has never been a mind-brain dichotomy because I always regarded thought, consciousness, and awareness as an elaboration and an extension of sensation. ...

Thanks, Alan Kirby, It is with some relief that postmodernism is dead. It was such a butt of late-nite jokes and scurrilous slander by newspaper editors, who characterized postmodernists as relativist hippies of no particular values or beliefs. Science will breathe a sigh of relief and hope again fo...