Beyond the hoax : science, philosophy and culture / / Alan Sokal |
Autore | Sokal Alan D. <1955-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (882 p.) |
Disciplina | 501 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Philosophy
Evidence Pseudoscience |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-19-152884-6
0-19-162334-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461670903321 |
Sokal Alan D. <1955-> | ||
New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Beyond the hoax : science, philosophy and culture / / Alan Sokal |
Autore | Sokal Alan D. <1955-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (882 p.) |
Disciplina | 501 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Philosophy
Evidence Pseudoscience |
ISBN |
0-19-152884-6
0-19-162334-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790029403321 |
Sokal Alan D. <1955-> | ||
New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Beyond the hoax : science, philosophy and culture / / Alan Sokal |
Autore | Sokal Alan D. <1955-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (882 p.) |
Disciplina | 501 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Philosophy
Evidence Pseudoscience |
ISBN |
0-19-152884-6
0-19-162334-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815899803321 |
Sokal Alan D. <1955-> | ||
New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Imposture intellettuali / Sokal Alan , Bricmont Jean |
Autore | Sokal, Alan D. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Milano : Garzanti, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 305p. ; 21cm |
ISBN | 8811600049 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
Record Nr. | UNINA-990003734940403321 |
Sokal, Alan D. | ||
Milano : Garzanti, 1999 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Imposture intellettuali / Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont ; traduzione dal francese di Fabio Acerbi e Monica Ugaglia |
Autore | Sokal, Alan D. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | 1. ed. - [Milano] : Garzanti, 1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 305 p. ; 20 cm |
Disciplina | 501 |
Collana | Saggi blu |
Soggetto non controllato | FILOSOFIA - Rapporto con la scienza |
ISBN | 88-11-60004-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
Record Nr. | UNINA-990003810330403321 |
Sokal, Alan D. | ||
1. ed. - [Milano] : Garzanti, 1999 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Sokal hoax [[electronic resource] ] : the sham that shook the academy / / edited by the editors of Lingua franca |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
Disciplina | 501 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SokalAlan D. <1955-> |
Soggetto topico |
Fraud in science
Science - Philosophy Science - Social aspects Humanities |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8032-1924-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Contents ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Transgressing The Boundaries: Toward A Transformative Hermeneutics Of Quantum Gravity ""; ""Revelation: A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies ""; ""Social Text Response: Mystery Science Theater ""; ""Scientist Takes Academia For A Ride With Parody ""; ""Is It Gibberish Or Merely Obscure? Scientist Hoaxes Academic Journal ""; ""Postmodern Gravity Deconstructed, Slyly ""; ""Hokum For High-Brows ""; ""Professor Sokal�S Bad Joke ""; ""When Pretension Reigns Supreme ""; ""A Physics Prof Drops A Bomb On The Faux Left ""; ""Smitten With Gibberish ""
""Hoax Article Yanks Academics� Legs """"Pomolotov Cocktail, And Selected Responses ""; ""Another Dispatch From The Culture Wars ""; ""Scholarly Article A Fine Hoax: Social Scientists Wore No Clothes ""; ""Illogical Dons Swallow Hoaxer�S Leap Into Quantum Gibberish ""; ""Sokal�S Prank ""; ""Sokal, A Self-Parodist ""; ""Academic Insult In Greenwich Village, And Selected Responses ""; ""When Clever Men Think Rubbish, Sound The Alarm Bells ""; ""Sokal Is No Socrates ""; ""Is There Science After The Cold War? ""; ""Why I Wrote My Parody ""; ""My Sokaled Life; Or, Revenge Of The Nerds "" ""The Sokal Hoax """"Sokal�S Hoax, And Selected Responses ""; ""What The Sokal Hoax Ought To Teach Us: The Pernicious Consequences And Internal Contradictions Of ��Postmodernist�� Relativism, And Selected Responses ""; ""Was Sokal�S Hoax Justified? ""; ""The ��Sokal Affair�� Takes Transatlantic Turn ""; ""Friendly Fire: The Hoaxing Of ""; ""Alan Sokal�S ��Transgression�� ""; ""The Science Wars In India ""; ""Postmodernism And The Left ""; ""Cultural Studies And Its Discontents: A Comment On The Sokal Affair "" ""Just Doing Your Job: Some Lessons Of The Sokal Affair """"Reflections On The Sokal Affair ""; ""A Plea For Reason, Evidence, And Logic ""; ""Lingua Franca Roundtable ""; ""Among Our Academic Contributors ""; ""Source Acknowledgments "" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450530403321 |
Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Sokal hoax [[electronic resource] ] : the sham that shook the academy / / edited by the editors of Lingua franca |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
Disciplina | 501 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SokalAlan D. <1955-> |
Soggetto topico |
Fraud in science
Science - Philosophy Science - Social aspects Humanities |
ISBN | 0-8032-1924-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Contents ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Transgressing The Boundaries: Toward A Transformative Hermeneutics Of Quantum Gravity ""; ""Revelation: A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies ""; ""Social Text Response: Mystery Science Theater ""; ""Scientist Takes Academia For A Ride With Parody ""; ""Is It Gibberish Or Merely Obscure? Scientist Hoaxes Academic Journal ""; ""Postmodern Gravity Deconstructed, Slyly ""; ""Hokum For High-Brows ""; ""Professor Sokal�S Bad Joke ""; ""When Pretension Reigns Supreme ""; ""A Physics Prof Drops A Bomb On The Faux Left ""; ""Smitten With Gibberish ""
""Hoax Article Yanks Academics� Legs """"Pomolotov Cocktail, And Selected Responses ""; ""Another Dispatch From The Culture Wars ""; ""Scholarly Article A Fine Hoax: Social Scientists Wore No Clothes ""; ""Illogical Dons Swallow Hoaxer�S Leap Into Quantum Gibberish ""; ""Sokal�S Prank ""; ""Sokal, A Self-Parodist ""; ""Academic Insult In Greenwich Village, And Selected Responses ""; ""When Clever Men Think Rubbish, Sound The Alarm Bells ""; ""Sokal Is No Socrates ""; ""Is There Science After The Cold War? ""; ""Why I Wrote My Parody ""; ""My Sokaled Life; Or, Revenge Of The Nerds "" ""The Sokal Hoax """"Sokal�S Hoax, And Selected Responses ""; ""What The Sokal Hoax Ought To Teach Us: The Pernicious Consequences And Internal Contradictions Of ��Postmodernist�� Relativism, And Selected Responses ""; ""Was Sokal�S Hoax Justified? ""; ""The ��Sokal Affair�� Takes Transatlantic Turn ""; ""Friendly Fire: The Hoaxing Of ""; ""Alan Sokal�S ��Transgression�� ""; ""The Science Wars In India ""; ""Postmodernism And The Left ""; ""Cultural Studies And Its Discontents: A Comment On The Sokal Affair "" ""Just Doing Your Job: Some Lessons Of The Sokal Affair """"Reflections On The Sokal Affair ""; ""A Plea For Reason, Evidence, And Logic ""; ""Lingua Franca Roundtable ""; ""Among Our Academic Contributors ""; ""Source Acknowledgments "" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782916303321 |
Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Sokal hoax [[electronic resource] ] : the sham that shook the academy / / edited by the editors of Lingua franca |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
Disciplina | 501 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SokalAlan D. <1955-> |
Soggetto topico |
Fraud in science
Science - Philosophy Science - Social aspects Humanities |
ISBN | 0-8032-1924-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Contents ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Transgressing The Boundaries: Toward A Transformative Hermeneutics Of Quantum Gravity ""; ""Revelation: A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies ""; ""Social Text Response: Mystery Science Theater ""; ""Scientist Takes Academia For A Ride With Parody ""; ""Is It Gibberish Or Merely Obscure? Scientist Hoaxes Academic Journal ""; ""Postmodern Gravity Deconstructed, Slyly ""; ""Hokum For High-Brows ""; ""Professor Sokal�S Bad Joke ""; ""When Pretension Reigns Supreme ""; ""A Physics Prof Drops A Bomb On The Faux Left ""; ""Smitten With Gibberish ""
""Hoax Article Yanks Academics� Legs """"Pomolotov Cocktail, And Selected Responses ""; ""Another Dispatch From The Culture Wars ""; ""Scholarly Article A Fine Hoax: Social Scientists Wore No Clothes ""; ""Illogical Dons Swallow Hoaxer�S Leap Into Quantum Gibberish ""; ""Sokal�S Prank ""; ""Sokal, A Self-Parodist ""; ""Academic Insult In Greenwich Village, And Selected Responses ""; ""When Clever Men Think Rubbish, Sound The Alarm Bells ""; ""Sokal Is No Socrates ""; ""Is There Science After The Cold War? ""; ""Why I Wrote My Parody ""; ""My Sokaled Life; Or, Revenge Of The Nerds "" ""The Sokal Hoax """"Sokal�S Hoax, And Selected Responses ""; ""What The Sokal Hoax Ought To Teach Us: The Pernicious Consequences And Internal Contradictions Of ��Postmodernist�� Relativism, And Selected Responses ""; ""Was Sokal�S Hoax Justified? ""; ""The ��Sokal Affair�� Takes Transatlantic Turn ""; ""Friendly Fire: The Hoaxing Of ""; ""Alan Sokal�S ��Transgression�� ""; ""The Science Wars In India ""; ""Postmodernism And The Left ""; ""Cultural Studies And Its Discontents: A Comment On The Sokal Affair "" ""Just Doing Your Job: Some Lessons Of The Sokal Affair """"Reflections On The Sokal Affair ""; ""A Plea For Reason, Evidence, And Logic ""; ""Lingua Franca Roundtable ""; ""Among Our Academic Contributors ""; ""Source Acknowledgments "" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817497503321 |
Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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