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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.
Oct 3, 1996 · Sokal’s hoax and Weinberg’s article explaining and amplifying its message effectively remove the smoke and mirrors from those social critics, philosophers, and historians of science who want to regard the human circumstances of a scientific discovery as more important than the discovery itself.
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.
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
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.
The Sokal hoax shares with other controversies of our time the typical feature of erupting suddenly with the threat of dire consequence, only to disappear quickly and nearly completely from public consciousness.
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