SD701 Open Directory

Top: Science: Science_in_Society: The_Science_Wars:

See also:

• Science: Science in Society: Skeptical Inquiry: Hoaxes  (42)

» Alan Sokal 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.




» The Bogdanoff Affair - John Baez' take on this "reverse Sokal" hoax, where meaningless papers were published in physics journals. This may or may not have actually been intended as a hoax.




» Debunking the Conventional Wisdom About the Science Wars - Essays by mathematician Gabriel Stolzenberg arguing that allegations made by Alan Sokal and others of relativist and postmodernist 'science-abuse' in the humanities and social sciences are based largely on hostile misreadings and pop metaphysics.




» The Sokal Hoax: At Whom Are We Laughing? - Analysis of some of the statements of prominent physicists drawing analogies between physics concepts and societal and philosophical issues. Suggests that physicists don't entirely have their own house in order.




» VIDEA conference abstract hoax - Giberrish abstracts prepared and accepted for a technical conference on computer visualization, 1995.




» What the Social Text Affair Does and Does Not Prove - Article by Alan Sokal.

Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web. Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

The content of this directory is based on the Open Directory and may have been modified.