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in the presuppositions of scientific work. One especially noteworthy, but less emphasized, aspect of that change is the drastic downgrading of the importance attributed to the notion of scientific method. I argue that this particular alteration of our presuppositions
is coherent with, and presumably a manifestation of, other, successively wider, cultural changes: loss of confidence in method generally, including a retreat from politico-legal proceduralism, reaching so deeply as seriously to undermine the most general and
comprehensive presupposition of modernity, the elevation of means above ends. In this way I aim to persuade that the transformations which we all recognize in knowledge production setting in circa 1980 cannot be the consequence of new governmental policies,
or even of new terms of trade and modes of production, but are, much rather, ‘part and parcel’ of the abrupt and profound cultural break that put an end to modernity.</font></p>
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</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><i>Paul Forman </i>is Curator Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution. For more information, see: </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:medium"><a href="http://americanhistory.si.edu/about/staff.cfm?key=12&staffkey=1692" target="_blank">http://americanhistory.si.edu/about/staff.cfm?key=12&staffkey=1692</a></span></div>
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