Beyond the hoax science, philosophy and culture

Indeed, Sokal shows that academic leftists have unwittingly abetted right wing ideologies by wrapping themselves in a relativistic fog where any belief is as valid as any other because all claims to truth must be regarded as equally suspect. Sokal's goal, throughout the book, is to expose the d...

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Príomhúdar: Sokal, Alan
Údair Eile: Alan Sokal
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300 |a xxi, 465 p. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
520 |a Indeed, Sokal shows that academic leftists have unwittingly abetted right wing ideologies by wrapping themselves in a relativistic fog where any belief is as valid as any other because all claims to truth must be regarded as equally suspect. Sokal's goal, throughout the book, is to expose the dangers in such thinking and to defend a scientific worldview based on respect for evidence, logic, and reasoned argument over wishful thinking, superstition, and demagoguery of any kind 
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700 |a Alan Sokal 
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