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Beyond the Hoax : Science, Philosophy and Culture.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (652 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191623349
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Beyond the HoaxDDC classification:
  • 501
LOC classification:
  • Q175 S6395 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: The Social Text Affair -- 1 The parody, annotated -- 2 Transgressing the boundaries: An afterword -- 3 Truth, reason, objectivity, and the Left -- 4 Science studies: Less than meets the eye -- 5 What the Social Text affair does and does not prove -- Part II: Science and Philosophy -- 6 Cognitive relativism in the philosophy of science -- 7 Defense of a modest scientific realism -- Part III: Science and Culture -- 8 Pseudoscience and postmodernism: Antagonists or fellow-travelers? -- 9 Religion, politics and survival -- 10 Epilogue: Epistemology and ethics -- Index -- Footnotes.
Summary: Alan Sokal, best-known for his role in the 'Sokal Hoax', here turns his attention to a new set of targets - pseudo-science, religion, and misinformation in public life. He argues that clear thinking, combined with a respect for evidence, are of the utmost importance to the survival of the human race in the twenty-first century.
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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: The Social Text Affair -- 1 The parody, annotated -- 2 Transgressing the boundaries: An afterword -- 3 Truth, reason, objectivity, and the Left -- 4 Science studies: Less than meets the eye -- 5 What the Social Text affair does and does not prove -- Part II: Science and Philosophy -- 6 Cognitive relativism in the philosophy of science -- 7 Defense of a modest scientific realism -- Part III: Science and Culture -- 8 Pseudoscience and postmodernism: Antagonists or fellow-travelers? -- 9 Religion, politics and survival -- 10 Epilogue: Epistemology and ethics -- Index -- Footnotes.

Alan Sokal, best-known for his role in the 'Sokal Hoax', here turns his attention to a new set of targets - pseudo-science, religion, and misinformation in public life. He argues that clear thinking, combined with a respect for evidence, are of the utmost importance to the survival of the human race in the twenty-first century.

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