ANGLO-AMERICAN POSTMODERNITY - A RESPONSE TO CLAYTON AND ROBBINS

In Anglo-American Postmodernity I call attention to recent intellectua l shifts in epistemology (from foundationalism to holism), philosophy of language (from reference to use), and metaphysics (from reductionis m to nonreductionism), and pursue the consequences of these changes fo r science, theology, and ethics. Wesley Robbins criticizes the book fo r making overly optimistic claims for the intellectual status of theol ogy; Philip Clayton criticizes it for giving up the quest for general standards of rational progress. Both criticisms miss the mark in not t aking on the account of rationality that I have developed from resourc es in the work of Alasdair MacIntyre.