Reply #28: Just a degradation product of competition [View All]

like name calling between liberals and conservatives.

The conflict between post-modernism and empiricism is over methods, and both sides claim(ed) the other is dumb if they don't "see" the value of the other. The competition is an old one. It became hot again during the last decade or so, as scientists became defensive about what was percieved as assaults from post-modernism and "pseudo-science." But I am not sure that this conflict is the most pressing problem of humanists or scientists.

Building academic curricula around Science and Humanities is a recognistion of the heritage of the Enlightenment. Currently, both Science and Humanities academic programs are being cut, especially on small resource challenged campuses, in order to move curricula toward "professinal studies" which can be interpreted as programs of study that are directed at specific jobs.