ABSTRACT
A fter reading the script Newman had written for the third consecutive convention of the American Psychological Association, I told him that “The Story of Truth (A Whodunit) or Philosophie dans la Théâtre” might well be the most unenlightening play ever written. Newman, of course, took that as the compliment I intended. Like some essays in this volume (e.g., “Science Can Do Better than Sokal: A Commentary on the So-Called Science Wars”), “The Story of Truth” examines foundational philosophical issues of psychology, the scientific paradigm and science itself. To me, the play is a performance of absurdity-the intellectual absurdity of the way in which the postmodernism vs. science debate is often carried out and the existential absurdity of being “permanently in the fly bottle” of reality.—L.H.
