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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| 245 | 0 | |a Beyond the hoax | |
| 245 | 0 | |b science, philosophy and culture | |
| 245 | 0 | |c Alan Sokal | |
| 260 | |a Oxford,New York | ||
| 260 | |b Oxford University Press | ||
| 260 | |c 2008 | ||
| 300 | |a xxi, 465 p. | ||
| 300 | |c 26 cm | ||
| 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 | ||
| 650 | |a Science; Evidence; Pseudoscience; Fraud in science | ||
| 700 | |a Alan Sokal | ||
| 980 | |a Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh | ||