I think that the rationalist, enlightenment view of mind (in relation to knowledge) as linear, expansive, two-dimensional, accumulative mechanisms, is self-defeating. Things often considered to be epistemic vices, like ignorance, forgetfulness, inexperience, bias, closed-mindedness, and so on, can often be virtues. Prima facie, it’s plausible that epistemic vices are adaptive (or, at least as contentiously: were adaptive at some point).
#post-knowledge epistemology and humble epistemics
manic ermine
see also: #1048139064697692220 #1049119807750033479 #1023703819609182269 #1045157234415513620
as far as i know, the term "post-knowledge epistemology" was coined by Colin Lankshear in 1999 https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED446744 and appears again in 2003 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14636310303144 but was never developed further
manic ermine
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2018.1461417
Kester (2018):
From my standpoint as a higher education peacebuilder in China and Korea, postmodernism is very much not dead. It may have seemed so when Wang Ning (2013, p. 296) wrote, ‘postmodernism, as a literary and cultural movement, came to an end some time ago not only in the West but also in China’. But after the 2016 UK and US elections, the 2017 Twitter wars on the Korean Peninsula, and the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, postmodernity is clearly enjoying a revival. This is because modernity too is very much alive. Postmodernity has been appropriated in this post-truth era by nationalists and neo-colonialists alike to justify anti-intellectualism, ethnocentric education, and exclusionary politics that were at the very heart of the early modernist agendas (Epstein, 1999). If one accepts this, analysts must now make sense of a new age of opportunistic postmodernity, where social life is dominated by ‘alt facts’ and ‘fake news’. Within this new regime of post-truth, repetition, hits, and clickbait equate fact, and scientific evidence is eschewed in the never-ending hyper-loop of the apparent replicability of repetition. Hence, in this new world order science is but a tautology. For some, postmodernism has always been ‘relativistic, nihilistic, and purposefully obfuscatory’ (St. Pierre, 2014, p. 5).
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