A question for English professors

Is anything not socially constructed?

If the answer is “yes,” then social-construction talk is revealed as a trivial foundationalism. 

If the answer is “no,” then social-construction talk is revealed as just plain trivial.

So enough of that talk and all that longs to it. 

Author: JD Fleming

I am Professor of English Literature at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC. My work is in the intellectual history of the early-modern period (1500-1700), with a special interest in epistemic issues around the emergence of modern natural science (the "Scientific Revolution"). Philosophically, for me, these issues are subsumed in hermeneutics.

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