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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 in statistical mechanics and combinatorics.
Alan D. Sokal. Professor of Physics, New York University; Professor of Mathematics, University College London. Verified email at nyu.edu - Homepage. Combinatorics analysis statistical mechanics. Title. Sort. Sort by citations Sort by year Sort by title. Cited by.
Feb 17, 2024 · Artillery Row. By. Alan Sokal. 17 February, 2024. [T]he citizens of the U.S.S.R. are guaranteed by law:— Freedom of speech; Freedom of the press; Freedom of assembly and of holding mass meetings; Freedom of street processions and demonstrations.
Famous for his 1996 hoax, Professor Alan Sokal is one of the most powerful voices in the continuing debate about the status of evidence-based knowledge. He is co-author (with Jean Bricmont) of Intellectual Impostures: Postmodernist Philosophers’ Abuse of Science, and author of Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture. Add to calendar.
- March 27, 2024
- Papers by Alan Sokal on Science, Philosophy and Culture
- Debates
- Commentary by Other People
- Interviews
- Reviews of Impostures Intellectuelles / Fashionable Nonsense
- Reviews of Beyond The Hoax
- Some Books of Interest
- Other Useful Web Sites on The "Social Text Affair"
1. This is the original "parody" article, published in Social Text #46/47, pp. 217-252 (spring/summer 1996).Available in four formats:
1. This is the article in which I reveal the parody, published in Lingua Franca, May/June 1996, pp. 62-64. Available in four formats:
1. Here I explain in more detail why I wrote the parody. This article was submitted to Social Text but rejected by them on the grounds that it did not meet their intellectual standards. It has now appeared in Dissent 43(4), pp. 93-99 (Fall 1996); and, in slightly different form, in Philosophy and Literature 20(2), pp. 338-346 (October 1996); and, in an updated version, as Chapter 2 of my book Beyond the Hoax.Available in three formats:
Debate in Lingua FrancaDebate in DissentDebate in TikkunDebate in Libération"Transgressing the Transgressors: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Total Bullshit", by Gary Kamiya (Salon, May 17, 1996)"Professor Sokal's Bad Joke", by Stanley Fish (New York Times, May 21, 1996)Ciencia Hoy[Argentina], Julio/Agosto 1998The Philosophers' Magazine, Autumn 1998Revista de Antropologia(Universidade de São Paulo), vol. 41, no. 1, 1998Heureka[Vienna], no. 5, 1998"Sokal ataca de nuevo", by Miguel de Asúa (Ciencia Hoy[Argentina], Noviembre/Diciembre 1997)"Ciencia, psicoanálisis y posmodernismo", by Michel Sauval (Acheronta [Argentina], Diciembre 1997 and Julio 1998). Also available in English and French."Book of the week", by Robert Matthews (Times Higher Education, 13 March 2008)Anonymous review in Publishers Weekly, March 17, 2008"Fight for the life of the mind", by Michael Shermer (New York Sun, May 21, 2008)Anonymous review in The Morning News, June 30, 2008Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt (Johns Hopkins University Press, April 1994, 2nd ed. October 1997). Available from amazon.co...Science Wars, edited by Andrew Ross (Duke University Press, November 1996). Available from amazon.com, Barnes and Noble and Internet Bookshop.Impostures Intellectuelles, by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont (Éditions Odile Jacob, October 1997). Available at present in French, English, Catalan, Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portugu...Défense des sciences humaines: Vers une désokalisation?, by Marc Richelle (Mardaga, January 1998). Available from FNAC.Alan Sokal is Professor of Mathematics at University College London and Professor Emeritus of Physics at New York University. How ideology threatens to corrupt science. Ideological censorship in science is antithetical to its purpose and its methods. Artillery Row. Alan Sokal. Woke invades the sciences.
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Alan Sokal Profile page. Professor of Statistical Mechanics & Combinatorics. Dept of Mathematics. Orcid identifier 0000-0002-1891-0200. Professor of Statistical Mechanics & Combinatorics. Dept of Mathematics. a.sokal@ucl.ac.uk. sokal@math.ucl.ac.uk (Work) University College London, Department of Mathematics, 800 Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT ...
