Beyond the hoax : science, philosophy and culture / / Alan Sokal

• Autore: Sokal Alan D. <1955->
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2010; ©2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (882 p.)
• Disciplina: 501
• Soggetto topico: Science - Philosophy; Evidence; Pseudoscience
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond the hoax
• ISBN: 0-19-152884-6; 0-19-162334-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815899803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II