LEADER 02727nam 2200565 450 001 9910815899803321 005 20230124190244.0 010 $a0-19-152884-6 010 $a0-19-162334-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000153461 035 $a(EBL)834781 035 $a(OCoLC)778339580 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000632583 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12221840 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000632583 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10609169 035 $a(PQKB)11761262 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5824821 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC834781 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000153461 100 $a20190731h20102008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBeyond the hoax $escience, philosophy and culture /$fAlan Sokal 210 1$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d2010. 210 4$dİ2008 215 $a1 online resource (882 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-956183-4 327 $aCover 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 327 $a10 Epilogue: Epistemology and ethicsIndex; Footnotes 330 $aIn 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 606 $aScience$xPhilosophy 606 $aEvidence 606 $aPseudoscience 615 0$aScience$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aEvidence. 615 0$aPseudoscience. 676 $a501 700 $aSokal$b Alan D.$f1955-$0142248 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815899803321 996 $aBeyond the hoax$93987225 997 $aUNINA