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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.
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.
- Allan Franklin
- Allan.Franklin@Colorado.EDU
- 2012
New York University physicist Alan Sokal’s name will always be connected to his 1996 hoax academic paper. Credit: Sokal. The organization Improbable Research explains that its Ig Nobel Prize honors achievements that first make people laugh, then make them think.
Alan Sokal describing an unusual experiment. In 1994, Sokal submitted a parody of cultural studies of science to a journal, Social Text, as if it were a serious academic paper. According to Sokal, the purpose of his "little experi-ment" (1996a, 64) was to see whether the journal would publish "an article
In the following year he married Olivia Arias, with whom he had a son, Dhani. A lifelong cigarette smoker, Harrison died of numerous cancers in 2001 at the age of 58, two years after surviving a knife attack by an intruder at his home, Friar Park.
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The Sokal affair, also called the Sokal hoax, refers to an article 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 postmodern cultural studies.
