Alan Sokal
Alan Sokal Professor of Physics sokal@nyu.edu Office: 607 Meyer phone: 212-998-7729 Mail: New York University Department of Physics 4 Washington Place New York, NY 10003 USA Dept. telephone: 212-998-7700 Dept. fax: 212-995-4016 Research Interests: Statistical mechanics; quantum field theory; mathematical physics; computational physics. You can look up some of my papers at HEP-SPIRES-SLAC, at the ...
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Transgressing the Transgressors: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Total Bullshit Physicist's slick hoax leaves egg on face of progressive academic journal By GARY KAMIYA A nyone who has spent much time wading through the pious, obscurantist, jargon-filled cant that now passes for advanced thought in the humanities knew it was bound to happen sooner or later: some clever academic, armed ...
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The Sokal Hoax
Over 400 skeptical definitions and essays on occult, paranormal, supernatural and pseudoscientific ideas and practices with references to the best skeptical literature ...
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A Mathematician Reads Social Text
A Mathematician Reads Social Text Michael C. Sullivan Department of Mathematics Mailcode 4408 Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901-4408, USA This article appeared in the October 1996 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. See http://www.ams.org/notices/199610/comm-sullivan.pdf New York University mathematical physicist Alan Sokal published in the postmodern ...
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Stanley Fish
Teaching Created 3/10/1998 Go to Brad DeLong's Home Page If you have not been following the Sokal affair --Alan Sokal's experiment to see if the editors of the journal Social Text could identify nonsense when it was submitted to them (with negative results: they could not identify deliberate nonsense)--you have missed the most delicious academic joke of the decade. And of all of the texts ...
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Alan Sokal Interviewed
The Abuse of Science: An Interview With Alan Sokal Interviewed by Julian Baggini Dennis Healey once compared a verbal attack by one of his parliamentary colleagues to being savaged by a dead sheep. I was reminded of this remark when I met the physicist Alan Sokal, the man who, along with mathematician Jean Bricmont, has caused outrage and indignation among the French intelligentsia first with ...
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