What the Sokal Hoax Ought to Teach Us

Times Literary Supplement (1996)
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The essay explores the meaning and implications of Alan Sokal’s hoax on the editors of Social Text. It examines the role that relativist/postmodernist views about knowledge may have played in that episode, and briefly explores the cogency of such conceptions.

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