H. Sidky is professor of anthropology at Miami University.
Description
Chapter 1: The War on Science and Reason and the Way to Post-Truth Chapter 2: De-legitimizing Science in the Academy: Ideological Underpinnings Chapter 3: Science Studies and the Anthropology of Science: How Postmodernists Sought to Demystify Truth Chapter 4: The Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity, Incomprehensibility, and the Sokal Hoax Chapter 5: American Intellectual Contributions to Science Delegitimation: Kuhn and Feyerabend Chapter 6: Epistemic Relativism: Is the World Truly Unknowable? Chapter 7: Epistemology: How Do We Know What We Know? Chapter 8: The Problem of Pseudoscience in Post-Truth America Chapter 9: Postmodern Anthropology: Epistemic Relativism and Incoherence as an Experimental Moment? Chapter 10: Paranormal and Theistic Anthropology: From Postmodernism to Post-Truth Supernaturalism Chapter 11: From Postmodernism to Post-Truth United States