Beyond the Hoax Science, Philosophy and Culture

Name: Beyond the Hoax Science, Philosophy and Culture
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ISBN: 9780199561834

ISBN-10: 0199561834

ISBN-13: 9780199561834

Edition: 2010

Authors: Alan Sokal

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In 1996, Alan Sokal, a Professor of Physics at New York University, wrote a paper for the cultural-studies journal Social Text, entitled 'Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity'. It was reviewed, accepted and published. Sokal immediately confessed that the whole article was a hoax - a cunningly worded paper designed to expose and parody the style of extreme postmodernist criticism of science. The story becamefront-page news around the world and triggered fierce and wide-ranging controversy. Sokal is one of the most powerful voices in the continuing debate about the status of evidence-based knowledge. In Beyond the Hoax he turns his attention…

Book details

Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 2/11/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 6.73" wide x 9.69" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 1.848




The Social Text Affair



Transgressing the boundaries: Towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity [annotated version]



Transgressing the boundaries: An afterword



Truth, reason, objectivity, and the Left



Science studies: Less than meets the eye



What the Social Text affair does and does not prove



Science and Philosophy



Cognitive relativism in the philosophy of science



Defense of a modest scientific realism



Science and Culture



Pseudoscience and postmodernism: Antagonists or fellow-travelers?



Religion, politics and survival



Epilogue: Epistemology and ethics


Index