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	Sokal Affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sokal Affair was a hoax by physicist Alan Sokal on the editorial staff and readership of a leading postmodern cultural studies journal called Social Text.
		On the day of its publication, Sokal announced in another publication, Lingua Franca, that the article was a hoax, calling his paper "a pastiche of left-wing cant, fawning references, grandiose quotations, and outright nonsense", which was "structured around the silliest quotations I could find about mathematics and physics" made by humanities academics.
		Sokal argued that this was the whole point—the journal published articles not on the basis of whether they were correct or made sense, but simply because of who wrote them and how they sounded.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sokal_Affair (1019 words)

	Alan Sokal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alan David Sokal (born 1955) is a professor of physics and faculty member of the mathematics department at New York University.
		Politically leftist, Sokal previously taught mathematics at the National University of Nicaragua during the Sandinista government.
		Sokal A. Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alan_Sokal (382 words)

	Intellectual Impostures (Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont)
		Sokal and Bricmont's systematic demolition is still totally convincing, at least to someone like me with a background in physics and mathematics.
		Sokal and Bricmont disclaim either the desire or the capability to evaluate the merits of these thinkers' work more generally, but they at least hint that a broader critique follows from their criticisms, and the debates over Intellectual Impostures seem to have revolved around this.
		Sokal and Bricmont sketch briefly the ideas of Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend, Latour, and the "strong programme" in sociology, delivering a broadside against the extremes of epistemic relativism.
	www.dannyreviews.com /h/Intellectual_Impostures.html (929 words)

	Det ny Reception 39/2000: Løgn og humaniora. Om Alan Sokal.
		Sokal og Bricmonts kritik kan deles op i tre centrale punkter: 1) Disse tænkere forstår ikke naturvidenskab, 2) men bruger den alligevel - uden at motivere hvorfor og 3) de udviser en generel forkærlighed for relativisme og obskurantisme.
		Sokal og Bricmont har en gennemgående diskussion, hvor forskellige relativistiske metoder og standpunkter kritiseres for ikke at kunne tage stilling i en politisk situation; hvis alle diskurser er lige-gyldige, kan ethvert standpunkt umiddelbart forsvares.
		Sokal, Alan: "Transgressing the boundaries: Toward a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity".
	www.reception.hum.ku.dk /arkiv/nr_39/loegn_og_humaniora.html (1196 words)

	Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
		Sokal immediately revealed the hoax, provoking a firestorm of reaction in both the popular and academic press.
		Many researchers in the humanities and social sciences wrote to Sokal, sometimes very movingly, to thank him for what he had done and to express their own rejection of the postmodernist and relativist tendencies dominating large parts of their disciplines.
		Quite simply, Sokal stumbled on most of these texts in the course of writing his parody, and we decided, after reflection, that it was worth making them public.
	www.human-nature.com /reason/books/sokal-bricmont.html (4432 words)

	Alan Sokal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He is best known to the general for the Sokal Affair of 1996 on which he followed up by Fashionable Nonsense (also known as Intellectual Impostures) with Jean Bricmont (1999).
		Sokal and Bricmont, two professors of physics, show that fashionable French intellectuals in the fields of social and cultural studies - Jacques Lacan, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, Julia Kristeva, Jean-Francois Lyotard and Luce Irigaray - habitually...
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	www.freeglossary.com /Alan_Sokal (273 words)

	Alan Sokal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He is best known to the general public for the Sokal Affair of 1996: in an attempt to "defend the Left from a trendy segment of itself", Sokal submitted a parodic paper to the postmodern cultural studies journal Social Text to see if they would publish any nonsense which "flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions".
		The journal published it and Sokal revealed the hoax in Lingua Franca, citing, among others, Noam Chomsky to argue that the left and social science would be better served by intellectual underpinnings based on reason.
		Nonetheless, Sokal's fellow scientists generally consider the "Sokal affair" as having demonstrably shown cultural studies and related fields to be "bunk".
	alan-sokal.ask.dyndns.dk (292 words)

	Alan Sokal y las preciosas ridículas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sokal fue acusado de francofobia, ya que la mayoría de sus ataques se dirigían contra intelectuales franceses.
		Pero por simpática que parezca la tarea de Sokal, sólo desde el marxismo se podrá reducir a cenizas lo inútil del pensamiento posmoderno y, a la vez, rescatar lo valioso que haya producido en algunos puntos parciales.
		Sokal acaba de arrojar un piedrazo, y un vidrio cae hecho trizas.
	www.po.org.ar /po/po590/alan.htm (1148 words)

	Fashionable Nonsense (Intellectual Impostures) - Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
		The notorious parody written by Alan Sokal and published by a gullible gang of academics at Social Text is one of the sadder chapters in modern American academia.
		As Sokal and Bricmont point out, even if the science the so-called thinkers cite were accurate most of the time it still has absolutely nothing to do with what they are actually trying (pretending ?) to say.
		Sokal and Bricmont address the two-cultures debate, and the fact that science is so foreign to so many (allowing it to be abused all the easier).
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/sokala/nonsense.htm (1850 words)

	Alan Sokal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He is best known to the general public for the Sokal Affair of 1996, on which he followed up by co-authoring Fashionable Nonsense (also known as Intellectual Impostures) with Jean Bricmont (1999).
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		Alan Larke shot to fame in 1984 when he became the first schoolboy to generate his own electricity.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Alan_Sokal.html (565 words)

	Revista de Antropologia - Entrevista com Alan Sokal. Entre a paródia e a denúncia: trajetos de dois físicos nos ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Alan Sokal: Creio que nós dois sempre tivemos interesse pela filosofia da ciência, pelas ciências sociais e, sobretudo, pela política.
		Alan Sokal: O debate em torno da paródia e do livro foi um enorme provocador de diálogo entre as ciências humanas, naturais e a filosofia.
		Alan Sokal: No Brasil, as únicas referências que tenho são esse seminário de dois dias aqui na USP e uma conferência no Rio de Janeiro.
	www.scielo.br /scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77011998000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso (4840 words)

	Alan Sokal Interviewed
		Sokal’s intention was to write a parody of this kind of relativism and to see if an academic journal would publish it.
		Sokal’s frustration that people don’t notice this separation, when it is so clearly stated in the preface, tells you all you need to know about what motivates him: he just can’t stand it when people fail to notice clear, logical distinctions, and having to repeat them until people do get it just irritates him more.
		Sokal, who sees himself as a moderate realist, is strongly opposed to relativism and less stridently opposed to instrumentalism.
	www.philosophers.co.uk /noframes/articles/sokalnf.htm (3094 words)

	Alan Sokal - Component of : Early Ideas in the History of Quantum Chemistry.
		Alan Sokal - Component of : Early Ideas in the History of Quantum Chemistry.
		Alan D. Sokal is professor of physics at New York University.
		What big controversy it gave rise to may be seen here in Sokal's own exhaustive documentation of all the pro an con voices.
	www.quantum-chemistry-history.com /Sokal1.htm (446 words)

	Alan Sokal - Detaillierte Informationen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Alan Sokal Articles on the "Social Text" Affair Read all about the hoax in which Sokal submitted a bogus article to a humanities journal, including the article, the aftermath, and his motivation.
		Alan Sokal Interviewed The Abuse of Science: An Interview With Alan Sokal...
		I was reminded of this remark when I met the physicist Alan Sokal, the man who,...
	alan-sokal.detaillierte-informationen.de (321 words)

	After The Sokal Affair and Impostures Intellectuelles
		Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, Revised English version of Impostures Intellectuelles, USA Edition, December 1998.
		Alan Sokal, A Plea for Reason, Evidence and Logic, Transcript of a talk presented at a forum at New York University on October 30, 1996.
		Alan Sokal, Transgressing the Boundaries: An Afterword, appeared in Dissent 43(4), pp.
	www.math.tohoku.ac.jp /~kuroki/Sokal (5380 words)

	A propósito de Alan Sokal
		Sokal reconoce la independencia metodológica de las ciencias sociales y diría: "si las ciencias sociales son ciencias por derecho propio ¿porqué vienen a sacar cosas de nuestros canteros y, por otra parte, mal usadas?"
		Sokal dice: todos estos autores posmodernos -insisto con este equívoco del nombre-, refiriéndose a los franceses, le dan prioridad al lenguaje sobre la realidad, es decir, propone una vuelta al positivismo lógico, ya un poco pasado de moda, del Círculo de Viena.
		LA: Sokal reivindica en un reportaje que hay una carga teórica en todo concepto científico, y hasta acepta llamarla metafísica; como Carnap, que plantea lo intraducible de los términos teóricos a los términos operacionales.
	www.herramienta.com.ar /varios/9/9-6.html (4495 words)

	Intellectual Impostures by Alan Sokal & Jean Bricmont
		In 1996, Alan Sokel decided to test the decline in intellectual standards in the humanities by trying to get the article Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity published in a leading cultural studies journal, i.e.
		Sokal wrote the article so that any undergraduate physical scientist would realize that it is a spoof.
		When Sokal and Bricmont expose Jacques Lacan's ignorant misuse of topology, or Julia Kristeva's of set theory, or Luce Irigaray's of fluid mechanics, or Jean Baudrillard's of non-Euclidean geometry, they are on safe ground; it is all too clear that they are babbling.
	www.321books.co.uk /reviews/philosophy/intellectual-impostures.htm (332 words)

	Alan Sokal - susning.nu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Alan Sokal, fysiker, amerikansk socialist och professor i fysik vid [New York University]?
		Sokal blev känd år 1996 då han skickade in en bluffartikel till den populära postmodernistiska tidskriften [Social Text]?
		Sokal gjorde återigen en poäng av att postmodernister inte tar reda på fakta innan de uttalar sig.
	www.susning.nu /Alan_Sokal (305 words)

	Pour la Science 04/97 - Thuillier - La mystification d’Alan Sokal
		Sokal se demandait notamment pourquoi la rédaction n’avait pas jugé utile de consulter un physicien, ce qui lui aurait permis d’éviter de nombreux pièges.
		Pour mener à bien sa critique, A. Sokal a d’ailleurs trouvé un allié européen en Jean Bricmont, professeur de physique théorique à l’Université catholique de Louvain.
		Sokal admet également que le scepticisme, à condition d’être " informé ", a une fonction positive.
	peccatte.karefil.com /SBPresse/PourLaScience0497.html (2395 words)

	Textarchiv : Berliner Zeitung : Zwei Schupos auf Diskursstreife / Alan Sokal und Jean Bricmont wollen die...
		Alan Sokal und Jean Bricmont wollen die Denker der Postmoderne des eleganten Unsinnredens überführen
		Alan Sokal, einem kanadischen Physiker, war aufgefallen, dass viele poststrukturalistisch gesonnene Philosophen und Sozialwissenschaftler in ihren Texten mit naturwissenschaftlichen Theorien jonglierten, von denen sie wenn überhaupt nur unterentwickelte Vorstellungen hatten.
		Auch wenn Sokal und Bricmont betonen, dass sie keineswegs eine Generalabrechnung beabsichtigen, kommt ihr Buch einer solchen doch sehr nahe, soll es doch "von Mystifizierung, bewusst verschleiernder Sprache, gedanklicher Verwirrung und vom Missbrauch wissenschaftlicher Begriffe" handeln.
	www.berlinonline.de /berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/1999/1012/magazin/0005/index.html (1129 words)

	Alan_Sokal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Curious to see whether the postmodern cultural studies journal ''Social Text'' would publish any submission which "flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions", Sokal submitted for publication a nonsensical paper entitled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity".
		The journal did publish it, and Sokal then revealed the hoax in the journal ''Lingua Franca'', citing, among others, Noam Chomsky to argue that the left and social science would be better served by intellectual underpinnings based on reason.
		He replied to leftist and postmodernist criticism of the deception by saying that his motivation had been to "defend the Left from a trendy segment of itself".
	q-basic.xodox.de /Alan_Sokal (302 words)

	Alan Sokal por Roberto Follari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Conocido es el revuelo que produjo la hábil maniobra por la cual Alan Sokal envió su texto plagado de errores de concepción acerca de las ciencias físico-naturales, a una revista de ciencias sociales, Social Text, logrando que fuera publicado tras la aceptación del Comité Editorial.
		En fin: Sokal puede quedarse tranquilo frente a esta clase de inmaduras réplicas de impacto exclusivamente retórico.
		Sokal cree que opinar desde las ciencias físico-naturales autoriza toda clase de exabruptos y desconocimientos sobre las disciplinas sociales, repitiendo de modo invertido y en perfecto espejo la falacia que él mismo desnuda en los posestructuralistas.
	www.carlosparma.com.ar /follari.htm (1728 words)

	Postmodernism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hostility toward hierarchies of value and objectivity becomes problematic to them when postmodernity itself attempts to analyse such hierarchies with, apparently, some measure of objectivity and make categorical statements concerning them.
		Interestingly, Social Text never acknowledged that the article's publication was a mistake, but supported a counter-argument defending the "interpretative validity" of Sokal's false article, despite the author's rebuttal of his own article.
		Sokal, Alan and Jean Bricmont (1998) Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (ISBN 0-312-20407-8)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Postmodernism (4148 words)

	Alan Sokal Articles on the "Social Text" Affair
		Impostures Intellectuelles, by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont (Éditions Odile Jacob, October 1997).
		L'affaire Sokal ou la querelle des impostures, by Yves Jeanneret (Presses Universitaires de France, September 1998).
		The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy, by the editors of Lingua Franca (University of Nebraska Press, September 2000).
	www.physics.nyu.edu /faculty/sokal (3882 words)

	New York University > 404 Not Found (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the hoax of Alan Sokal, the value of pi (the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle) was asserted to be a social construct rather than a...
		The postmodernists whom Sokal exhibited as having no understanding whatsoever of the science they loved to use in their writings had big enough audiences.
		StudentÃ•s t-tests were employed to assess the signif- icance of differences in shell thickness and pore density between samples (Sokal and Rohlf, 2001).
	www.nyu.edu /gsas/dept/physics/faculty/sokal.html (305 words)

	Sciences et Avenir 11/97 - Quirin
		D’un canular, le physicien américain Alan Sokal a fait un brûlot contre la pensée française contemporaine.
		Alan Sokal, agacé par le verbiage des sciences humaines, écrit un pastiche d’un article " postmoderne ", l’envoie à une revue américaine prestigieuse qui le publie.
		En trois lignes, soulignent Alan Sokal et Jean Bricmont, Lacan a écrit trois stupidités ; zéro n’est pas un nombre irrationnel, ce n’est pas davantage un nombre imaginaire et enfin, plus grave, les nombres irrationnels ne sont pas des nombres imaginaires, ce que sait pertinemment n’importe quel élève de terminale scientifique.
	peccatte.karefil.com /SBPresse/SciencesAvenir1197.html (650 words)

	A Sokal-ügy
		Célja az volt (mint Sokal a tréfát leleplezõ írásban elmondja), hogy a posztmodernizmusról, a francia "posztstrukturalizmusról", a tudományfilozófia anti-realista felfogásáról, a tudászszociológia "erõs programjáról" és még sok minden egyébrõl megmutassa, hogy azok ugyanilyen zagyvaságok - e nézetek követõi ugyanis Sokal szerint "maguk sem tudják, mit beszélnek", ha ezt az írást elfogadták tudománynak.
		Sokal eredeti cikke, amely az egészet kiváltotta (Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity, Social Text 46/47, pp.
		Alan Sokal: A Plea for Reason, Evidence and Logic, New Politics 6(2), pp.
	hps.elte.hu /~gk/Sokal/Sokal.html (590 words)

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