The major themes of postmodernist writing are demystified in this introductory text. Robert Hollinger reviews key postmodern discussions on critical topics such as values, identity, and the self and society. He compares postmodern thinking with that of the enlightenment project, modernism, modernity, Marxism and Critical Theory. This, together with his treatment of Foucault, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari and other leading postmodern theorists, provides an excellent introduction to modern social theory.

This popular reader has been vastly updated with ten stimulating new selections on the natural and the social sciences: feminism; postmodernism, relativism, and science; confirmation, acceptance, and theory; explanatory unification; and science and values. Retaining the best essays from the previous editions, the editors have added important new pieces to maintain this influential text's relevance.

This interdisciplinary and systematic collection of essays explores pragmatism in relation to three key episodes in American culture: Progressivism, Positivism, and Postmodernism.

This paper takes the recent works of writers such as gadamer, Heidegger, And rorty as background, And explores the implications of their critique of traditional ideals of truth knowledge and rationality for our notions of reasoning and argumentation. I then criticize some ideas of habermas and macintyre, Which seems to me incompatible with the thrust of the recent efforts to rethink the nature of reasoning and argumentation.

This paper considers two versions of fictionalism. Its main purpose is to examine the assumptions and consequences of each view in light of the philosophical issue of scepticism.