The Sokal affair, also called the Sokal hoax, was a demonstrative scholarly hoax performed by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and...
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mechanics and combinatorics. He is a critic of postmodernism, and caused the Sokal affair in 1996 when his deliberately nonsensical paper was published by Duke...
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by reverse Alan Sokal hoax?" Baez was comparing the Bogdanovs' publications to the 1996 Sokal affair, in which physicist Alan Sokal successfully submitted...
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Obscurantism (section Sokal affair)
similar theoretic divergences. The Sokal affair (1996) was a publishing hoax that the professor of physics Alan Sokal perpetrated on the editors and readers...
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Lingua Franca (magazine) (section Sokal Affair)
Franca!" By Ron Rosenbaum in The New York Observer, (April 2006). Sokal Affair: Alan Sokal, "A Physicist Experiments With Cultural Studies," Lingua Franca...
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which the authors cited in support of their contention. The affair echoed Alan Sokal's 1996 hoax in Social Text, a cultural studies journal, which inspired...
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Criticism of postmodernism (section Sokal affair)
an unduly fawning Alan Yentob. Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University, formulated the Sokal affair, a hoax in which he wrote a deliberately...
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Peter Boghossian (section Grievance studies affair)
Practical Guide. Boghossian was involved in the grievance studies affair (also called "Sokal Squared" in media coverage) with collaborators James A. Lindsay...
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Beyond the Hoax (category Works by Alan Sokal)
Science, Philosophy, and Culture is a 2008 book by Alan Sokal detailing the history of the Sokal affair in which he submitted an article full of "nonsense"...
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Bullshit Bogdanov affair Dihydrogen monoxide parody Flux capacitor Fedspeak Neologism Officialese Psychobabble Rubber science Sokal affair Turbo encabulator...
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This is a list of scholarly publishing "sting operations" such as the Sokal affair. These are nonsense papers that were accepted by an academic journal...
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Maarten Boudry (section Sokal affair)
which organizes skeptical conferences in Flanders. In 2011, Boudry pulled a Sokal-style hoax. Boudry wanted to put Christian philosophers to the test by writing...
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journal gained notoriety in 1996 for the Sokal affair, when it published a nonsensical article that physicist Alan Sokal had deliberately written as a hoax...
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Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff (section Bogdanov affair)
by reverse Alan Sokal hoax?" Baez was comparing the Bogdanoffs' publications to the 1996 Sokal affair, in which physicist Alan Sokal successfully submitted...
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physics professor Alan Sokal in a journal (Social Text) as a scholarly publishing sting. The episode became known as the Sokal Affair. The term is sometimes...
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Helen Pluckrose (section Grievance studies affair)
in the 2017–18 grievance studies affair (also referred to as "Sokal Squared" in reference to the 1996 Sokal affair), a project which saw the group submitting...
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scientific expertise Social constructivism – Sociological theory of knowledge Sokal affair – 1996 scholarly publishing sting accepted by an academic journal Barnes...
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teaching of evolution, and the prize awarded to Social Text after the Sokal affair. Most often, however, they draw attention to scientific articles that...
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editors' ideological preconceptions". The matter became known as the "Sokal Affair" and brought greater public attention to the wider conflict. Jacques...
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for Indecency to Naked Animals, the first media hoax of Alan Abel. The Sokal affair, which scrutinized an academic journal's intellectual rigor. Nat Tate...
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Sociology of the history of science Disputes: Bogdanov affair – 2002 French academic dispute Sokal affair – 1996 scholarly publishing sting accepted by an academic...
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Fashionable Nonsense (category Works by Alan Sokal)
supportive. Similar to the subject matter of the book, Sokal is best known for his eponymous 1996 hoaxing affair, whereby he was able to get published a deliberately...
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Fabrication (science) Post-publication peer review Scientific misconduct Sokal affair Erratum Correction (newspaper) "Retraction guidelines". COPE: Committee...
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entrenchment over time. Examples include: Academic hoaxes: The Sokal affair The Grievance studies affair Art-world hoaxes: The "Bruno Hat" art hoax, arranged in...
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Social construction of technology Sociology of scientific knowledge Sokal affair Amy Donovan, Clive Oppenheimer, Michael Bravo. Social studies of volcanology:...
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imperialism Scientific skepticism Scientistic materialism Secular religion Sokal affair State atheism Technological dystopia New Frontier Post-scarcity economy...
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Scat singing SCIgen, a program that generates nonsense research papers Sokal affair Spoetry and Spam Lit, nonsense text derived from e-mail spam Word salad...
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tradition. Some of the related issues have been popularized by the Sokal affair in 1996. Alan Sokal produced a text that "not only exemplifies academese in what...
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Time for an upgrade. Academese Parody generator Paper generator SCIgen Sokal affair Monte Carlo method Bulhak, Andrew C. (April 1, 1996). "On the Simulation...
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was a social construct that should be examined hermeneutically. See Sokal affair for further details. Griswold, Wendy (1987). "A Methodological Framework...
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