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UNINA9910461670903321 |
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Autore |
Sokal Alan D. <1955-> |
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Beyond the hoax : science, philosophy and culture / / Alan Sokal |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2010 |
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©2008 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-152884-6 |
0-19-162334-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (882 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Science - Philosophy |
Evidence |
Pseudoscience |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Part I: The Social Text Affair; 1 The parody, annotated; 2 Transgressing the boundaries: An afterword; 3 Truth, reason, objectivity, and the Left; 4 Science studies: Less than meets the eye; 5 What the Social Text affair does and does not prove; Part II: Science and Philosophy; 6 Cognitive relativism in the philosophy of science; 7 Defense of a modest scientific realism; Part III: Science and Culture; 8 Pseudoscience and postmodernism: Antagonists or fellow-travelers?; 9 Religion, politics and survival |
10 Epilogue: Epistemology and ethicsIndex; Footnotes |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 continui |
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