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About Paul Tyson

Dr Paul Tyson is an honorary senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is published in the fields of the sociology of knowledge, philosophy, theology, and science studies.
Latest Posts | By Paul Tyson
Postmodern Identity Politics: Justice At Last, or Anti-Realist Sophistry?
9 months ago

Postmodern Identity Politics: Justice At Last, or Anti-Realist Sophistry?

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What is often called ‘identity politics’ in the twenty-first century seems to be closely connected to the rise of powerful new forms of communications technology. We have seen the birth …
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Has Transgender Identity Politics Gone Too Far?
2 years ago

Has Transgender Identity Politics Gone Too Far?

By  •  Debates

I was recently reading the introduction to the inaugural edition of the Transgender Studies Quarterly (University of Arizona, 2014). The authors of that introduction very helpfully explained that two head-crunching …
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