Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 became front - page news around the world and triggered fierce and wide - ranging controversy. Sokal is one of the most powerful voices in the continuing debate about the status of evidence - based knowledge. In Beyond the Hoax he turns his attention to a new set of targets - pseudo - science religion and misinformation in public life. Whether my targets are the postmodernists of the left the fundamentalists of the right or the muddle - headed of all political and apolitical stripes the bottom line is that clear thinking combined with a respect for evidence are of the utmost importance to the survival of the human race in the twenty - first century. The book also includes a hugely illuminating annotated text of the Hoax itself and a reflection on the furore it provoked.
Title: Beyond The Hoax Science Philosophy And Culture
Author(s): Sokal Alan (Professor Of Physics At New York University And Professor Of Mathematics At University College London)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199561834
Pages: 488 Pages
Publication Date: 3/19/2010
Category: Philosophy Of Science