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Alan David Sokal (/ ˈsoʊkəl / SOH-kəl; born January 24, 1955) is an American professor of mathematics at University College London and professor emeritus of physics at New York University. He works with statistical mechanics and combinatorics. Sokal is a critic of postmodernism, and caused the Sokal affair in 1996 when his deliberately ...
The Sokal affair, additionally known as the Sokal hoax, [1] was a demonstrative scholarly hoax performed by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College London. In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to Social Text, an academic journal of cultural studies.
Jun 3, 2011 · Sokal brings forth the usual suspects, Thomas Kuhn and Paul Feyerabend, and one unusual suspect, Karl Popper. As Sokal admits, Popper can hardly be called a relativist, but Sokal argues that the criticisms of Popper’s views do give aid and comfort to the relativist position.
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Alan Sokal. Actor: Droit d'auteurs. Alan Sokal is known for Droit d'auteurs (1996).
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Jun 5, 2003 · Alan Sokal is an icon for bad science hunters the world over, the man who pulled off the greatest academic scam of our times, and gave post-modernist commentators on science the public slapping they’ve always deserved.
The hoax article successfully implanted by physicist Alan Sokal in the journal Social Text became the most famous scandal and thus occasion for this sort of critique (see Sokal and Bricmont, 1998). With a few notable exceptions (Alland, 1998), most anthropologists did not adopt the position of Sokal and his allies (see Fujimura, 1998), and thus ...
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Oct 25, 2018 · At the height of the conflict, the physicist Alan Sokal, who was under the impression that Latour and his S.T.S. colleagues thought that “the laws of physics are mere social conventions,”...
