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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 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.
Professor Sokal’s Transgression by the Editors. On Alan Sokal’s hoax in Social Text & the responses to it by Andrew Ross & Stanley Fish.
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco to journalist William Prescott Frost Jr. and Isabelle Moodie. [2] His father was a descendant of Nicholas Frost of Tiverton, Devon, England, who had sailed to New Hampshire in 1634 on the Wolfrana, and his mother was a Scottish immigrant.
Jun 3, 2011 · In Sokal’s view, Lerner has a dubious cosmology, but important psychological insights that Sokal believes the political left should not ignore. Lerner criticizes the left for its condescension toward working class conservatives and their desire for purpose, value, and meaning in their lives.
- Allan Franklin
- Allan.Franklin@Colorado.EDU
- 2012
The squabbles ignited by Higher Superstition alerted Alan Sokal, a mathematical physicist at New York University, to the controversy. Further research nullified his initial suspicions that the book might merely be yet another "culture wars" diatribe from the right.
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Oct 4, 2017 · heating up again now that Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont's Impostures intellectuelles (Paris: Odile Jacob, 1997) has been published in translation in the US by St. Martin's Press.
