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Read all about the hoax in which Sokal submitted a bogus article to a humanities journal, including the article, the aftermath, and his motivation.
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Alan Sokal Articles on the Social Text Affair Commentary by other people Interviews Reviews of Impostures Intellectuelles Fashionable Nonsense Some books of interest Other useful Web sites on the Social Text Affair Jason Walsh site Gen Kuroki site Keele University (UK) site H-Net site (Humanities OnLine The Science...Essays by mathematician Gabriel Stolzenberg arguing that allegations made by Alan Sokal and others of relativist and postmodernist 'science-abuse' in the humanities and social sciences are based largely on hostile misreadings and pop metaphysics.
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G. Stolzenberg: A mathematician debunks the conventional view of the Sokal affair In essays posted at this site, I use close readings of the science wars literature to debunk the conventional wisdom about them, especially about the Sokal affair and its aftermath. In doing this, I try to adhere to standards of...Article by Alan Sokal.
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What the Social Text Affair Does and Does Not Prove I did not write this work merely with the aim of setting the exegetical record straight. My larger target is those contemporaries who in repeated acts of wish-fulfillment have appropriated conclusions from the philosophy of science and put them to...