Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture - Hardcover
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This is as important a book as anything by Dawkins, Hitchens, Wheen...scrupulous, engaging,...entetaining. (Nicholas Lezard, Saturday Guardian)
As a guide to and critique of some of what has gone wrong in academia and in wider culture, Sokal's book is superb. (James Ladyman, The Philosophers' Magazine)
I have seen few better expositions of how thoughtful theoretical scientists actually build up their picture of reality. (Philip Anderson, Physics World)
Most scientists will be highly appreciative of and deeply fascinated by what Sokal has to say in this remarkable book. (Chemistry World)
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As a guide to and critique of some of what has gone wrong in academia and in wider culture, Sokal's book is superb. (James Ladyman, The Philosophers' Magazine)
I have seen few better expositions of how thoughtful theoretical scientists actually build up their picture of reality. (Philip Anderson, Physics World)
Most scientists will be highly appreciative of and deeply fascinated by what Sokal has to say in this remarkable book. (Chemistry World)
In 1996, Alan Sokal, a Professor of Physics at New York University, wrote a paper for the cultural-studies journal Social Text, entitled: 'Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity'. It was reviewed, accepted and published. Sokal immediately confessed that the whole article was a hoax - a cunningly worded paper designed to expose and parody the style of extreme postmodernist criticism of science. The story became front-page news around the world and triggered fierce and wide-ranging controversy.
Sokal is one of the most powerful voices in the continuing debate about the status of evidence-based knowledge. In Beyond the Hoax he turns his attention to a new set of targets - pseudo-science, religion, and misinformation in public life. 'Whether my targets are the postmodernists of the left, the fundamentalists of the right, or the muddle-headed of all political and apolitical stripes, the bottom line is that clear thinking, combined with a respect for evidence, are of the utmost importance to the survival of the human race in the twenty-first century.' The book also includes a hugely illuminating annotated text of the Hoax itself, and a reflection on the furore it provoked.
Sokal is one of the most powerful voices in the continuing debate about the status of evidence-based knowledge. In Beyond the Hoax he turns his attention to a new set of targets - pseudo-science, religion, and misinformation in public life. 'Whether my targets are the postmodernists of the left, the fundamentalists of the right, or the muddle-headed of all political and apolitical stripes, the bottom line is that clear thinking, combined with a respect for evidence, are of the utmost importance to the survival of the human race in the twenty-first century.' The book also includes a hugely illuminating annotated text of the Hoax itself, and a reflection on the furore it provoked.
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- VerlagOUP Oxford
- Erscheinungsdatum2008
- ISBN 10 0199239207
- ISBN 13 9780199239207
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Buchbeschreibung hardcover. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Gut GU - Beschädigungen, Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt - In 1996, Alan Sokal, a Professor of Physics at New York University, wrote a paper for the cultural-studies journal Social Text, entitled: 'Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity'. It was reviewed, accepted and published. Sokal immediately confessed that the whole article was a hoax - a cunningly worded paper designed to expose and parody the style of extreme postmodernist criticism of science. The story becamefront-page news around the world and triggered fierce and wide-ranging controversy. Sokal is one of the most powerful voices in the continuing debate about the status of evidence-based knowledge. In Beyond the Hoax he turns his attention to a new set of targets - pseudo-science, religion, and misinformation in public life. 'Whether my targets are the postmodernists of the left, the fundamentalists of the right, or the muddle-headed of all political and apolitical stripes, the bottom line is that clear thinking, combined with a respect for evidence, are of the utmost importance to the survival of the human race in the twenty-first century.' The book also includes a hugely illuminating annotated text of the Hoax itself, and a reflection on the furore it provoked. Artikel-Nr. INF1000651989
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