02727nam 2200565 450 991081589980332120230124190244.00-19-152884-60-19-162334-2(CKB)2670000000153461(EBL)834781(OCoLC)778339580(SSID)ssj0000632583(PQKBManifestationID)12221840(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000632583(PQKBWorkID)10609169(PQKB)11761262(MiAaPQ)EBC5824821(MiAaPQ)EBC834781(EXLCZ)99267000000015346120190731h20102008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBeyond the hoax science, philosophy and culture /Alan SokalNew York :Oxford University Press,2010.©20081 online resource (882 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-956183-4 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 survival10 Epilogue: Epistemology and ethicsIndex; FootnotesIn 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 continuiSciencePhilosophyEvidencePseudoscienceSciencePhilosophy.Evidence.Pseudoscience.501Sokal Alan D.1955-142248MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815899803321Beyond the hoax3987225UNINA