As many academics will agree, Postmodernism is an implausible philosophy constructed on logical fallacies. Linguistic forms of postmodernism claim that texts have no determinate meaning. This, of course, assumes that the reader is able to ascertain a determinate meaning in that sentence by interpreting and understanding correctly the author’s intent–a logical fallacy (for more see Kevin Vanhoozer, Is There Meaning in This Text?). If there are no fixed truths, science is a bankrupt endeavor, which is precisely why the renowned biologist and Harvard professor E. O. Wilson has joined Salman Rushdie and others to promote “The New Humanism.” As French and English philosophers have avered, the post-Postmodernism is a return to humanism but with a twist.
Check out the details in Harvard’s New Humanism conference. Better yet, go to the conference and send me your notes. For more on the development of post-Postmodern philosophy, see Jamer Parker III’s chapter, “A Requiem for Postmodernism: Whither Now?” in which he discusses the development of Transmodernism in Reclaiming the Center, ed. Justin Taylor et. al.