The Science Wars’ shot heard ‘round the world. Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity by Alan Sokal - Galt's Gulch

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The Science Wars’ shot heard ‘round the world. Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity by Alan Sokal

Posted by Doug_Huffman 4 years, 4 months ago to Science

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It inspired an entire genre of academic literature. My favorite: The Flight From Science and Reason, proceedings of an eponymous NY Academy of Sciences, 1995. Edited by Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt, Martin W. Lewis.

When I am accused of unbalanced conservatism, my appreciation of leftist Norman Levite’s Prometheus Bedeviled proves that I am not unbalanced.

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SOURCE URL: https://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html

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Posted by j_IR1776wg 4 years, 4 months ago

What unmitigated crap! Pro Post Modernism and Pragmatism which means anti-Objectivism, Anti-Aristotelian Logic, Anti-Reason. Best summed up as: We don’t need no stinkin’ thinkin’

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  Posted by Doug_Huffman 4 years, 4 months ago
  
  Amazing! I may have a dozen book on the Science Wars in my library that took years to absorb and you grasped it instantly. I wonder if j_IR1776wg knows what is hermeneutics?
  
  Now where have I heard that before, “no stinking thinking”? Oh yeah, I know, “Zero tolerance.”
  
  Good people ought to be armed s they will, with wits and Guns and THE TRUTH.
  
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