It is extremely annoying when anti-post-modernists argue against straw-men. Admittedly, the cited summary makes this easy, because it is very misleading. The c

It is extremely annoying when anti-post-modernists argue against straw-men. Admittedly, the cited summary makes this easy, because it is very misleading. The common theme of postmodern epistemology is that there is not _the truth_. Therefore, science is not an institution that finds _the truth_. This is not about filtering and quirks and biases, it is much more fundamental. mistersquid's sibling post to yours describes that very well, much better than the article snippet you referred to. I'm not sure if this insight has brought positive changes in science. But it doesn't matter. Philosophy doesn't have the purpose to bring improvements to science. As a side note, when modern science was established, no scientist talked about the influence of social, economic, or institutional contexts on their own work, as far as I know. If this is nowadays perceived as obvious fact, I would consider that as positive influence of philosophy on science.