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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.
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. Following a recent retrospective article in the Chronicle of Higher Education ...
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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Oct 4, 2017 · see Sokal himself? What is at the center of the furor is not Alan Sokal himself, who in subsequent articles and in the book Impostures intellectuelles has focused on the misuse of science by certain French theorists, while giving the impres-sion of refusing to pass (overt) judgment upon whole fields or even specific authors.
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
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To develop this argument, the author explicitly compares Alan Sokal's experiment with a similar experiment, performed by William M. Epstein and published in this very journal.
